We Wish You a Merry Christmas Chords for Guitar Beginners
We Wish You a Merry Christmas chords that are easier for beginning guitar players are what this page is about...
I realized that the piano arrangements, with their frequent and unusual chord changes, weren't working for them.
Here is what the guitar tabs look like:
Please scroll down the page for the link to the downloadable PDF.
Your beginner guitar students can actually use BABY chords G and C in this piece, and still make the song sound decent. Those little chords will help them change chords so much faster!
In the second-to-last measure (the penultimate measure) there is a very quick change from C, to D7, to G.
I like to tell my younger students to:
- play the "little C" (which is index finger alone),
- then keep that index finger down for the D7 (young guitarists have a tendency to lift their fingers in-between each chord and start over even when some of the same fingers can be left in place),
- then SLIDE down from D7 into the little G chord.
We can build up some speed that way!
Below is a very beautifully-played rendition of a classical guitar style arrangement of this Christmas carol. The artist, from 2009, is Sungha Jung, and the arrangement is by Ulli Boegershausen.
This is a great key for violin as well - in fact, a fiddle and guitar duo on this festive and joyous song is a wonderful pairing!
The link to the guitar sheet:
Download We Wish You a Merry Christmas chords for guitar beginner players
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This is the perfect easy start for little pianists.
And when they start reading white-key notes on the staff, this is a fun easy resource to say each week, "Choose a new black-key song at home this week and figure it out to show me next lesson!" They will be spending more time at the piano.
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Becky:
A thousand thanks for your beginning piano and guitar songs.
I've already printed several for my children, including the Pretty Little Horses TAB and Carol of the Bells for piano. What a wonderful resource!
Dylan:
Just wanted to express my overwhelming joy in finding your web site! :D Lots of good info!!
My wife and I own our own teaching studio in Texas and I am always looking for new songs to teach my beginner guitar students. You've done a wonderful job of providing great tunes with ACCURATE sheet music/TAB!
Your web site is wonderful! Thank you so much!! Many blessings...
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Hi, I'm Dana! (Say that like "Anna".) I'm the owner of Music-for-Music-Teachers.com, and a newer site, SingTheBibleStory.com.
Like some of you, I've been playing the piano since early childhood, and have added a few other instruments along the way, plus an interest in arranging and composing music.
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