Christmas Guitar Chords

When the holiday season comes around, guitar players around the world search to find Christmas guitar chords for their favorite holiday numbers. Everyone likes a great sing along, and Christmas time can be a fantastic occasion for family and friends to come together and sing songs that everyone knows and loves. With the information from this article, you will be able to track down some Christmas guitar chords in plenty of time to perform them for the holidays.

The two main ways you can find guitar chords for Christmas songs are on the Internet or in book form. There are advantages and disadvantages to each method. As far as finding chords on the Internet is concerned, the main plusses are that the chords are usually available for free, and they can be accessed from the comfort of your own home without having to make a trip to the store. The disadvantages are that sometimes the transcriptions are not of the highest quality, and you always have to be somewhere with access to the Internet in order to get your charts. Using print books is desirable because the transcriptions are always first rate, and you can take your book with you if you are planning to be somewhere where you won't have the Internet. However, finding the right songs in the right book can be a challenge, and you certainly aren't going to get a chord book for free. The following information will help you find great Christmas chords both online and in books.

• Guitar Chords Magic – Guitar Chords Magic is an excellent website. It is well organized, very informative, and constantly evolving. Great chord charts for Christmas songs like 12 Days of Christmas, Greensleeves, Jingle Bells, Silent Night and What Child Is This? are available here.

• Ian's Messy Desk – This great website has a wealth of guitar chords for Christmas classics like Away in a Manger, Good King Wenceslas and Joy to the World!. O Christmas Tree, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and White Christmas are also available here along with plenty of other classics.

• Guitar Songs – Another large database of Christmas songs is available at Guitar Songs. Some favorites include Angles We Have Heard, Blue Christmas, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause, Santa Clause is Coming to Town and The First Noel. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Jolly Old St. Nicholas and many more can also be found here.

• Christmas Songs – This Hal Leonard book has songs and lyrics to 80 Christmas songs including some popular standards like Frosty the Snowman and Feliz Navidad as well as some less famous numbers like We Need a Little Christmas and I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.

• The Christmas Guitar Chord Songbook – Over 40 songs are available in this publication including Auld Lang Sine, Deck the Halls and Coventry Carol.

• Three Chords for Christmas Guitar – This book would be perfect for the guitar player who doesn't play much throughout the year but still wants to learn some simple numbers for the holiday season. Over 90 great Christmas songs are included in the book, and all of them are written out with three chords or less.

• Three Chord Christmas Songs for Guitar, Banjo, and Uke – A book with a slight variation on the three chord idea is Mel Bay's Three Chord Christmas Songs for Guitar, Banjo and Uke. If you and your friends are interested in starting a holiday string band, this book will give you a great, simple starting place. Over 50 songs are transcribed here.

Whether you plan to buy a book or use the Internet to get your Christmas guitar chords, you need to make sure you get your hands on your music in time to learn the songs for Christmas. Start practicing around Thanksgiving and you'll be ready to rock for a big Christmas Eve gig.

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