Easy Christmas Songs for Guitar – Volume 1

Easy Christmas Songs for Guitar Volume 1 – Solo Fingerstyle Arrangements with Lyrics & Chords. Includes Two Editions: Notation Only & Notation + TAB. Easy melody + bass notes + common shapes, 1st position. These are basically just the melody with the bass note of the chords added. I would barely call these arrangements.

Songs: O Come, O Come Emmanuel; Away in a Manger; Good King Wenceslas; We Three Kings of Orient Are; We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

About the level and arrangements – These easy Christmas arrangements are for beginner or intermediate guitarists looking for easy sight-readable songs for the holiday season. I’ve added the lyrics and chords to make them as useful as possible in group or family settings if singing occurs. More advanced guitarists may wish to improvise or work-out intros and extra accompaniment. Otherwise, the arrangements are simple melodies plus bass notes and some filling out of common first position chords. I wanted to create a nice and simple edition so people can spend the holiday relaxing and not practicing difficult arrangements.

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Promo Cover Image: Steel engraving of Martin Luther’s Christmas Tree, from Sartain’s Magazine, circa 1860

Bradford Werner
Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

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  1. Bradford – many thanks for this collection. I’ve been struggling rhough another “easy” collection of Christmas music for classical guitar and though it’s impressive to be all over the fretboard, I really needed a few pieces I could just get done. This collection provides that with great sounding pieces. Thanks again. _ Ernest LIlley