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New Christmas Songs Lessons

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Christmas CatChristmas is around the corner and I’ve always wanted to make it easy to play Christmas Songs. We have the Christmas Songs and Solos program which has lots of instrumental arrangements of Christmas songs, but it doesn’t include video lessons on how to accompany these songs to singing.

Would you like to learn easy to play Christmas songs for the guitar? I’ve asked on my Facebook page and learned that Terry, Christy, and Chris love ‘O Holy Night’. Tammy and Ryan liked ‘Do you hear what I hear’ and ‘Little drummer boy’. Chalmers suggested ‘Angels We Have Heard’. I’ve included all of these songs plus ‘It Came Upon A Midnight Clear’.

Here are the first song and excerpts of some of the songs in the program.

If you would like to get the lessons, the page is here Easy Christmas Songs For Guitar.

For the music of ‘Silent Night’ free, just request it from the form below.

7 Tips For Making Faster Chord Changes.

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Changing Chords Quickly PictureChanging Chords Quickly

I remember well how difficult it was to originally change to any guitar chord. In particular the ‘C’ chord tends to be a little tricky for new guitarists. With a bit of practice, the chords do get easier to play.

Daniel’s question included help in how to transition quickly between chords. He took the recent Worship Guitar Class Newsletter Survey. Here are some tips that should help any guitar player in changing chords quickly.

Changing Chords Quickly Tips

  1. Put down the bass finger first. For example, for a ‘C’ chord the root note is ‘C’. It’s better to work on placing the 3rd finger down first so you can play the bass of the chord and still have a second to get the rest of the chord down. Eventually try to place all of your fingers down at the same time.
  2. Think ahead to the next chord. Think about where your fingers are moving before they actually move. This is especially true for shifts in position on the guitar. Look to the frets you are moving too before you actually shift your fingers. If there is a shift from the first position to the 7th position, your eyes should be on the 7th fret before beginning to move your fingers from the first fret. [Read more…]

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