Everybody's Guitar Series now features two outstanding collections of Christmas repertoire. These publications feature solos and duets that will motivate students due to the excellent selection of pieces and the enjoyment of playing the arrangements. Following the "Step-By-Step Approach" that is carefully correlated to Everybody's Guitar Method , these books will help teachers plan student recital repertoire for holiday season concerts. Each arrangement includes melody, chord names, and lyrics, and is readily adaptable for ensemble playing. The student is encouraged to learn both the melody and the chords whenever possible. Other features:. Technique Tips — the pros offer their insight on how to practice effectively.
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1. White Christmas
The first three songs here can be found in the Uberchord app, so learning them is easy and playing them well is a given. Rumour has it that when Irving Berlin wrote the song in he was staying in a hotel in California— and perhaps missing the snowy New York winter. In the key of G major it fits most vocal ranges but if you want it higher you can always use a capo or play it in C. It remains a huge favourite to this day and has been translated into many languages. We have an object, looks like a satellite going from north to south, up in a polar orbit. This song is usually played in C, the first key most of you learned when you started playing. Here are the basic chords for the first verse and chorus:. Remember: your guitar, your own unique style. Our next Christmas song is a little trickier than just chords, but a heck a lot of fun to play once you learn it. This song comes from the hedonistic west coast band the Beach Boys and is one of the cutest little ditties ever written.
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The Christmas music most of us know and love today is a hodgepodge of songs written relatively recently in the past 70 years and ones written centuries ago. These seemingly jovial and carefree songs sometimes contain storied and even troubled backgrounds. His friend, Joseph Mohr, who had written the words two years before, asked him to create a melody for the lyrics along with a guitar accompaniment. Soon after, a version written for organ emerged. Written by Irving Berlin, the song was first heard on Christmas day on a radio show sponsored by the Kraft Company in For many Americans, this Christmas, which was just 18 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, was not a happy one. Just a year later, many young Americans spent Christmas away from their families overseas.
Last Updated on: December 23, by Klaus Crow. Christmas time, I love it. I am a sucker for romance, christmas lights and feel good songs. Two for the price of one. A great way to inspire a new generation with the real classics. Yet I hope new christmas songs will be written every year and that the best of those songs will become classics again. Anyway, in the meantime there are a zillion songs you can enjoy. I created a top 35 to get busy. Grab your guitar, start playing and building your christmas repertoire!
