The First Noel, Traditional English Christmas Carol
This is a good Christmas Carol for beginner guitar players. This tune is in a major key and the melody, for the most part, has contiguous scale notes, whether ascending or descending. So if you know the C Major scale, for example, you can learn this melody fairly easily.
Another interesting aspect of this melody is that it does not start or end on the key note. Many songs in the key of C begin and end on a C note. For First Noel, the beginning and ending note is E, which is the 3rd note of this major scale, and is also part of the C Major chord.
Merry Christmas
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