One of my best Christmas gifts was a guitar when I was age 13. My parents gave me a beginner nylon string classical guitar. When I was 14, I started taking guitar lessons at a local music store. Gratefully, I still continue to play guitar, as well as bass, harmonica, and more recently I started learning to play the ukulele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another favorite Christmas gift from my parents, two years later, was a songbook of Christmas Carols for beginner guitar. The first carol I learned to play on guitar was “Silent Night”. This carol is in 3\/4 time (3-count) and is well-suited for beginner guitar players, as the tempo is slow to moderate. This song also uses only three chords (C, F, G). The G chord is sometimes played as G7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
In addition, there are melody phrases that are repeated, which make learning to play this song easier. For example, the opening phrase (measures \/ bars 1 \u2013 2) is repeated in measures 3 – 4. This opening phrase also appears in the last two bars of these 4-bar phrases: measures 9 – 12 and 13 – 16. Those two 4-bar phrases are also another example of melody repetition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have included two related posts for Silent Night, one for guitar and one for ukulele, and both in the key of C. That means if you have a friend or family member who plays ukulele, you can play a duet of Silent Night. One person can play the melody and the other the chords. You can repeat a second verse and switch who plays the chord and melody parts. Your duet could also be two guitars or two ukuleles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my best Christmas gifts was a guitar when I was age 13. My parents gave me a beginner nylon string classical guitar. When I was 14, I started taking guitar lessons at a local music store. Gratefully, I still continue to play guitar, as well as bass, harmonica, and more recently I started … Continue reading “Silent Night: First Christmas Carol I Learned on Guitar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[12,66,19],"tags":[73,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ronpulcer.com\/music\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}