A blog to help with learning and teaching Guitar, Ukulele, Bass Guitar and Piano. Written by Theo Lawrence / TL Music Books.
Here’s a quick and easy melody to play on Christmas day that everyone knows. In the sheet music you will find the notation and guitar tab for playing the melody on guitar, ukulele or bass guitar. There are also chords above the melody, which can be played as an accompaniment.
Back in October (2016) my guitar student Snejana asked ‘Can we write a Christmas Song?’.
We liked it so much that we ended up recording it, and here it is!
You can listen to the song here, and even download it if you like it here:
Written and produced by Theo Lawrence & Snejana
Lyrics & vocals by Snejana
Cover Art edited by RogueSkins.
Merry Christmas!
Cadd9 C/B Dsus4 x2
Cadd9 C/B G Dsus4 x2
Christmas is here where lots of good cheer will come around
Christmas is here where lots of good cheer will come around
The fire is burning the candles are lit our hearts are warm and full of joy.
The sky is dark the stars are shining brightly and Jack Frost’s outside making everything sparkle nicely
Cadd9 G Dsus4 x6
Woah oh oh oh
Woah oh oh
Christmas is here it’s official
Don’t be alone this Christmas
Invite a couple friends over and have some fun
And that’s why it’s Christmas
G Cadd9 Em7 Dsus4 x8
Christmas trees fairy lights baubles everywhere
Christmas trees fairy lights baubles everywhere
Can’t you see Christmas cheer and carols all around
Don’t you worry you’ll get a carol at your doorstep
Christmas is here don’t fear Santa’s on his way
There’s some snow on a slope and people sledding down it
Baubles are shining in some people’s faces
And that is why it’s gonna be Christmas time
G Dsus4 Em7 Cadd9 x4
woah oh oh oh oh…..
Christmas time
Christmas time
It’s just Christmas time
G Cadd9 Em7 Dsus4 x9 (Then end on G)
Christmas trees fairy lights baubles everywhere
Christmas trees fairy lights baubles everywhere
Can’t you see Christmas cheer and carols all around
Don’t you worry you’ll get a carol at your doorstep
Christmas is here don’t fear Santa’s on his way
There’s some snow on a slope and people sledding down it
Baubles are shining in some people’s faces
And That is why it’s Christmas time
Wouldn’t be any other time, cus it’s Christmas time
Written and produced by Theo Lawrence & Snejana
Lyrics & vocals by Snejana
Backing vocals by The Guilsfield Cupcakes
Sleigh Bells performed by students of TL Music Lessons
Cover Art edited by RogueSkins.
Photo Credit: Alice Popkorn
This song is also featured in the Christmas Songs Ebook for Guitar, Ukulele and Lyrics.
Silent night is one of the best Christmas songs for beginner guitarists to play chords with, for both guitarists and ukulele players.
Silent night is a public domain Christmas song.
The sheet music contains the guitar chords and ukulele chords for the song, along with sheets for the melodies too. There are also versions for piano, flute and violin.
There are only 3 chords needed: C, F and G.
PDF – Easy – Silent Night Ukulele in C
PDF – Medium – Ukulele Chords with Strumming – Silent Night in C
Photo Credit: Kevin Dooley
You can download the pdfs of this song and more in this Christmas Ebook.
This song is really great for working on chord changes. You don’t always find songs easily with the basic chords in (and no barre chords), but this song has a good selection of them. No capo needed either.
The chords featured in the song are as follows: A, B7, C, D, Em, G.
The chords are basic on both guitar and ukulele and can be learned by beginners. More intermediate or advanced players can develop the rhythm rather than doing single strums.
This is quite a majestic Christmas song – one of my favourites in the public domain. It is great for building up chord changing skills and for learning how to play simple melodies on the guitar and ukulele.
There are only 2 sections to the song. You can keep playing Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus for as long as you like.
Autumn Leaves is a Ukulele and Guitar song for kids about the colours of Autumn Leaves and falling from the tree.
The chords are easy for beginners and the words are easy to sing along. There is a basic notated melody, but you can make up your own to suit the singers.
The song is ideal for primary schools, from about year 1-5. You can listen to the audio example of a group of year 5 girls playing the song on guitar here:
This book was written following my first two books (released as a set) called 100 Beginners Chord Progressions For Guitar + Struming Rhythms. This guitar version was written after the ukulele version and transferred over very well and therefore they are both compatible and suitable for groups or ensembles of guitar and ukulele.
I started out writing this book in order to solve two problems I found in the first book of chord progressions – which were mainly problems for early beginners. The first problem was that by the time we got through all 4 chords, sometimes it had taken a while to change between chords and we lost the flow of the exercise. The second problem was that the new beginners were not familiar with the chords yet, so we had 2 books and a chord sheet to look at. The third problem was that for young beginners, some struggled to remember the rhythms and therefore got lost flicking between the books, rather than remembering the rhythm and then just looking at the chord progression book.
So, this book aims to solve all of the problems in the above paragraph for basic beginners level, by having the chord diagram and rhythm and tab all in one place and also only focuses on 2 chords at a time so the player can really master those chord changes. I tend to teach this book first and then move onto the 100 chord progressions books, which then get progressed through faster.
The book includes a lot of new content not seen in the first two books, like finger picking exercises and different time signatures. Therefore those who have started with the first books, could also go through this book afterwards and still feel like they are progressing.
In conclusion, I think this book is best to start with out of the 2 releases so far. The overall aim is to improve those chord changes and build up your rhythm and finger picking skills, preparing you to be able to play songs, to help you progress in general, and it to give you some new concepts for constructing your own music.
I hope you find the book useful.
Theo Lawrence
www.tlmusiclessons.com
This book was written following my first two books (released as a set), 100 Beginners Chord Progressions + 100 Strumming Rhythms.
Either book could be started first, but I tend to start with this one, and then burn through the 100 chord progressions a lot quicker following this book.
I started out writing this book in order to solve two problems I found in the first book of chord progressions – which were mainly problems for early beginners. The first problem was that by the time we got through all 4 chords, sometimes it had taken a while to change between chords and we lost the flow of the exercise. The second problem was that the new beginners were not familiar with the chords yet, so we had 2 books and a chord sheet to look at. The third problem was that for young beginners, some struggled to remember the rhythms and therefore got lost flicking between the books, rather than remembering the rhythm and then just looking at the chord progression book.
So, this book aims to solve all of the problems in the above paragraph for basic beginners level, by having the chord diagram and rhythm and tab all in one place and also only focuses on 2 chords at a time so the player can really master those chord changes.
The book includes a lot of new content not seen in the first two books, like finger picking exercises and different time signatures. Therefore those who have started with the first books, could also go through this book afterwards and still feel like they are progressing.
In conclusion, I think this book is best to start with out of the 2 releases so far. The overall aim is to improve those chord changes and build up your rhythm and finger picking skills, preparing you to be able to play songs, to help you progress in general, and it to give you some new concepts for constructing your own music.
I hope you find the book useful.
Theo Lawrence
www.tlmusiclessons.com
***These are 10 original songs written by TL Music Lessons for teaching purposes, to get students using chords and melodies in real song scenarios, which have been written specifically for beginners from grade 1 to 3.***
Useful Copyright Info: You are free to print copies of the sheet music for educational or performance purposes and you are also free to perform the songs in public.
Here is a selection of content for learning the blues scales all over the fretboard. There are tabs to follow and also scales boxes, which can help visualise and remember the shapes of the scales.
1. Guitar Tab for all blues scales on the fretboard.
2. Page 2 of Guitar Tab for all blues scales on the fretboard.
3. This sheet shows you the scale box shapes. It’s essentially the same information as the first 2 sheets, presented in a different way:
4. This sheet shows you recommended finger numbers:
Related: If you liked this page, you might also be interested in purchasing this: Learning Minor Pentatonic Scales Ebook.
Photo Credit: Sean Molin. License Link: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
The Am, G, F, E chord progression is used in Spanish improvisation, and is the fundamental part of some flamenco songs.
In the images below, I have modified the final chord to be E7 on ukulele, and I have also shown a simple rhythm to get started with.
For the guitar chords, you may play the F as a barre chord, and you may also use F7.
It is also common to spend two bars on each chord instead of 1.
This is a nice little blues chord progression using easy beginners open chords, which has a very pleasant sound to listen to and to play.
You could try using some Strumming Rhythms once you have mastered single strums or playing 4 strums per bar. A slow strumming rhythm with an 8th note swing sounds nice and relaxing with this blues chord progression.
