Christmas songs to learn for the Festive Season

As the most wonderful time of the year edges closer and closer, as a guitarist or any musician, you may feel the urge to pick up the weapon of your choice and learn some festive tunes. This being the case, i thought i would share a few of my favourites with you so that you may enjoy them this Christmas and show off to your distant family.

1) "Happy Christmas war is over" John Lennon

This is about as classic as you can get during the holiday season. It is a great song with a great message about peace on earth and good will to all men; the Christmas spirit embodied. It is also remarkably simple to play and sing, no difficult high or low notes and the structure relies on A, E, D, Em, Bm, and a few other simple additions to jazz it up as you see fit. It also has the recognsable quality on hearing the first line and people will want to join in.

2) "Do they know it's Christmas" Band Aid

Another classic that people will recognise within the first line. This is even simpler than the Lennon number as it contains no Bm and the only barre chord is an F which can be converted to an open chord if necessary though i do not recommend it. Other than the F chord, it relies on the standard C, A, G, D chords of so many songs and is a song that will never go out of fashion and thus can be re-deployed every Christmas.

3) "Rudolph the red nosed reindeer" Various

This is a far more playful yet equally enjoyable number for all the family. It is very simple and even includes a few 7 chords to make it sound more difficult than it is. The vocals are very easy and un-challenging and thus is can be sung by just about anybody. Once more, this will not go out of fashion and harks back to your childhood in the season of happiness that is Christmas.

I hope you have fun with these Christmas tracks and i would like to wish anybody who frequently visits this blog a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I hope this Christmas gives you everything that you want.