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Christmas

Christmas Eve by Gorky’s/TFC

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For this year’s Xmas special I’m taking a look at the beautiful song Christmas Eve originally recorded by Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, and covered wonderfully by Teenage Fanclub. Hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!

Silver Bells by The Ventures

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For the 2020 Xmas special I’m looking at another track from the wonderful Ventures’ Christmas Album.

Music/Tab

Backing Track

Israel by Siouxsie & The Banshees

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This track was a 1980 Siouxsie & The Banshees Christmas single. It contains some of John McGeoch’s finest guitar work.

Music & Tab

These days, most of my tabs and backing tracks are only available to members of my Patreon page, but since it’s Christmas…

Backing Track

Here’s my backing track. It follows the arrangement of the original recording.

Enjoy playing along. Merry Christmas!

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – Solo Guitar Arrangement

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I’ve gone all traditional for this year’s Christmas Special. The song first appeared in the 1943 musical Meet Me In St. Louis and has since been covered by all manner of different people including of course the mighty Bublé.

Here’s the tutorial:

Music/tab

Here’s the tab. You can download a free printable PDF right here if you like:

Merry-Little-ChristmasDownload

For more quality tabs like this you might consider signing up to my Patreon page where you’ll get new tabs every week to accompany the YouTube videos, many of which don’t appear on this site.

Blue Christmas by The Ventures

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For this year’s Christmas Special I’m looking at another track from the marvellous Ventures’ Christmas album.

Music/tab

I”ve written it all out below. For a downloadable PDF and an mp3 of the backing track, please check out my Patreon page. 

Backing Track

Here’s my backing track, complete with extra sleigh bells. for a downloadable mp3, check out my Patreon page.

Sleigh Ride by The Ventures

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For this year’s Christmas Special I’m taking a look at the twang-tastic Sleigh Ride by The Ventures.

 

I’ve written out the music/tab below. Chord symbols for the rhythm guitar are written above if you want to play it with a friend. Download the PDF here.

Here’s s the backing track:

More Christmas?

Check out last year’s lesson on Sufjan Stevens-themed lesson.

Some acoustic fingerstyle with John Fahey’s Joy to the World.

Christmas Time is Here jazzy chord melody.

White Christmas jazz chord melody.