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11-03-2004, 09:31 PM
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Christmas songs - fingerstyle
Does anyone know a site where I can get some tabs for Christmas songs? I've been commissioned to play at a Christmas party and I don't know many Christmas songs.
I'm looking for some nice fingerstyle arrangements, not just chords (I can figure those out). Any help would be appreciated.
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11-03-2004, 09:52 PM
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Mark Hanson has two very nice Christmas book/CD of fingerstyle arrangements: Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar and Fingerstyle Noel. I have his first one and I really liked it (although it's been about 5 years since I've looked at it). I found mine at the local guitar shop but Elderly or Amazon.com should also carry either or both.
There's also Contemporary Christmas Guitar Book/CD. I haven't looked thru it but it has arrangements from Doug Smith, David Cullen and Laurence Juber. It looks like a great book/CD. You can find it at Acoustic Music Resource. GL
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11-04-2004, 07:46 AM
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I second the Contemporary Christmas Book. I picked up the book in October, and it is full of 12 challenging (some very very challenging
 ) arrangements. The artists featured are some of the best. I am very much enjoying it. Devon
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11-04-2004, 08:30 AM
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Go here >> http://www.acousticpower.com/
Look under "C" for "Christmas" of course. Get the free Powertab editor to listen to them and see the tab. You'll be glad you did.
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11-04-2004, 12:24 PM
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I just produced a cd for a guy who used the book "The Ultimate Christmas Fake Book" for his songs. It had the works. Might be able to find it on Amazon. That was the easy part for me, the hard part was getting the Jewish guitarist to play the songs. It was like pulling teeth, but once he started he said he really go into it.
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11-04-2004, 02:00 PM
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Another voter for the Hanson books. That, and El McMeen has a video out with Christmas songs that are quite beautiful-mainly in altered tunings, not just your basic "Jingle Bells" and "Silent NIght". I believe you can pick it up at Stefan Grossmans site-but it seems to be down at the moment for some reason.
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11-05-2004, 01:57 AM
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Thanks for all of your suggestions. I picked up Hansen's Fingerstyle Christmas Guitar book today. I came with a CD. Looks like a great book. I need to get busy practicing now.
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