Christmas only comes once a year, but you can learn to play these holiday classics any time. These lessons and arrangements make learning Christmas carols fun and easy. With these songs in your repertoire you will have a greater sense of structure and melody that will help you learn many other songs and develop an ear for writing your own songs.
Learn to Play Christmas Songs on Guitar
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Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas is a wonderfully easy introduction to creating a chord melody arrangement and the first of a series of holiday song lessons for our readers. MP3 files are included.
Amazing Grace
Here’s a chance to work on your hammer-ons and pull-offs while playing a Celtic soul arrangement of this lovely song. Plus, you get to learn a lot about chord choices and voicing and even get to play around in Drop D tuning.
The Little Drummer Boy
Peter Simms adds his share to the finest gifts we bring with his wonderful chord melody arrangement of this Christmas carol. Using Drop D tuning to create a thrumming bass part, you’ll have everyone in your house going pa-rum-pa-pa-pum in no time!
Silent Night – An Easy Christmas Song for Beginners
Silent Night is a classic three-chord song. Here is a simple yet elegant, single guitar arrangement of this beautiful Christmas song.
Christmas in June
More than anything else, melody defines a song for us. Join us on a tour through the music theory basics of melody.
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