1 (edited by GuitarTutorHelp 13-12-10 06:20:42)

Topic: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

Wow, the holidays come so fast! What's your favorite holiday song(s) to play?
Mine is probably "Deck the Halls". 

When learning holiday songs (or in general), it's important to learn both the melody and chord part.
Sing too if you like! 

Also, another thing I've tried when in a loose, rocking mode (no pun intended)
is to play rock versions of holiday songs.

For example, tune your guitar to drop D and try deck the halls.
You can play this using one finger power chords...here are the first few frets:

8 6 5 3 1 3 5 1

Now, I've got two tasks for you:

1) Tell us the names of these power chords
2) Figure out the rest of the song by ear.

Let us know how you do!  (of course if you need help, let us know)  :-)

Happy holidays to you all.

Cheers,

-Eric

2 (edited by Instructor 13-12-10 23:58:51)

Re: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

Well, my newest favorite is Natalie Merchants cover of Go Where I send Thee. I discovered this over the weekend, at the Academy when I was cleaning up and threw on an old CD that I had never even opened of popular artists doing some Christmas songs!

It's in G and goes to C G/B and Am, and then for the Chorus it goes G  Am G -C G (quick change).  It's fun, upbeat and you can get a lot of funky going in it.  I love the C to G inversion walk down in this....it's smoking cool.

After the solo it modulates up to A, via a G# Passing chord, where the chords become A Bm D A/C# to Bm, in case anyone tries/wants to play along with this!

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I'm going to decline your challenge above GTH, because it's frankly very easy for me, I'll leave it for others, to have fun with!

Instructor

http://rnbacademy.com

Online Guitar Academy

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Re: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

The melody of "Silent Night", just can't get enough of it  default/smile

my lyrics, my guitar and my imagination

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Re: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

my favourite summer song is   adagoo by black lace in any key thats above human hearing
and my favourite xmas song is    all i want for xmas is my 2 front teeth...if i cant have kylie minogue
or a top of the range gibson ( byrdland if poss )

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Re: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

My favorite holiday song that I am hooked right now is the song from Beatles entitled All You Need is Love.

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Re: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

I have many favorite holiday songs.. To name some Grown up Christmas List, Oh Holy Night, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem..

Cremation Urns for Pets

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Re: What's your favorite holiday song to play?

Mine is the “Silent night”

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