Easy Christmas Songs for Guitar

Christmas GuitarIt's true that christmas only comes once a year, and that gives you plenty of time to learn these holiday classics on guitar. Having these songs in your repertoire will give you a greater sense of structure and melody and help you learn so many other songs, as well as develop an ear for writing songs of your own.

When you've had enough of these wonderful holiday classics, don't forget to try out some of our easy guitar song lessons. You'll be surprised how much you can learn from a song.

Dec24

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Christmas Ornaments

It’s not just a sentiment of good tidings, it’s a song lesson! Learn a very simple arrangement of this holiday favorite, which may be even better than figgy pudding!

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Dec16

Deck the Hall

Christmas Decorations

Have fun playing this simple, yet challenging arranging of one of everyone’s favorite carols. If you can handle playing C, F and G and some basic fingerpicking, you’ll be performing “Deck the Hall” in no time!

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Dec12

Good King Wenceslas

Christmas Snow Scene

Here is a wonderfully simple, yet elegant arrangement of the beloved carol, “Good King Wenceslas,” done in open D tuning.

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Dec23

O Little Town of Bethlehem

O Little Town of Bethlehem

For this lesson on “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” we show how using two notes of a chord can create a beautiful chord melody arrangement.

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Dec24

Away in a Manger

Here is another interesting and beautiful sounding chord melody arrangement. This time we are working with the old Christmas carol Away in a Manger.

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Dec23

I’ll Be Home for Christmas

Christmas Stockings by the fire

This is our fingerstyle / chord melody take on I’ll Be Home for Christmas, a song from the 1940′s that’s been sung by almost everyone.

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Dec31

Auld Lang Syne

In this this lesson we’ll learn a Drop D tuning arrangement of the perennial New Year’s Eve standard, Auld Lang Syne.

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Dec31

Joy To The World

Here’s a very easy chord melody arrangement of the popular Christmas carol Joy to the World in double drop D tuning. Enjoy this familiar tune in a new way.

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Dec15

Angels We Have Heard On High

This is a traditional French carol, arranged so we can review some of our recent lessons on bass lines and Travis style finger picking.

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Dec14

He Is Born (Il est né)

This lesson is a simple DADGAD arrangement of a very well-known, traditional French Christmas Carol titled Il est né, which translates to He Is Born.

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