50 Three-Chord Christmas Songs for Guitar, Banjo & Uke

Banjo and Uke-With the Three-Chord Christmas Songbook you will need only minimal playing skills and three chords?G C and D7?to accompany each song in this great book. The jam-packed book is invaluable for all beginningmusicians casual musicians teachers family bands and performers. Melody lyrics and chords are included for all songs. Guitar uke and five-string banjo diagrams are included for the three chords along with basicaccompaniment tips. Transposing and how-to-use-the-capo tips are included for singers. An invaluable sourcebook for teachers?and a handy compact fakebook for performers. A unique collection of timeless songs for the entirefamily. Accompany 50 vibrant Christmas songs with only minimal playing skills. Each song includes melody lyrics and chords. Perhaps the most interesting collection of Christmas songs to be found inprint today. Interesting historical images are found throughout the text. A superb book for getting beginners involved and keeping them involved. Only a few minutes of technical training equips anyperson to accompany all 50 songs in this book. Teachers can use this collection as a foundation to teach more advanced patterns and arranging techniques. Excellent 'mini fake book' resource for all musicians andperformers.

You need only minimal playing skills and three chords--G C and D7--to accompany all the great songs in this innovative book. If you are just getting started or if you are a 'casual' player on a chording instrument this is theperfect book for you. The book is absolutely bursting with a great variety of music: Old-time bluegrass gospel Christmas children's tunes Stephen Foster British and Celtic cowboy blues and more. Because melody and lyricsare provided with every song singers will also enjoy this wonderful collection of the world's favorite songs. Truly a book of outstanding arrangements made playable for folks who play for their own enjoyment. (Some of thesesongs like 'Dark Hollow' and 'Way Downtown ' are hard to find in print.) Guitar uke and five-string banjo diagrams are included for the three chords along with tips on strumming and transposing tips for singers. An invaluablereference book for teachers and pros too!

The blues has always been spiced with suggestive metaphors. This collection of bawdy blues songs celebrates the off-colour blues repertoire: Bessie Smith is wild about her kitchen man's turnip tops but Bo Carter's pencil won't write no more! There's lots of variety with songs from the 1930s 40s and 50s; some are simple three-chord blues tunes and others have beautiful ragtimey chord changes. Fred shows you how to play accompaniment and solos for all the songs. Theevocative titles include Ain't Got Nobody to Grind My Coffee (Clara Smith) She's Your Cook But She Burns My Bread Sometimes and My Pencil Won't Write No More (Bo Carter) Kitchen Man (Bessie Smith) Big Ten Inch (Bull Moose Jackson) You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark (Alberta Hunter) and the holiday perennial Let's Make Christmas Merry Baby (Amos Milburn).Fred shows you how to accompany yourself singing the songs and how to fingerpick an instrumental version of each one. His easy-going instructional style his tips on playing the arrangements and his slowed-down split-screen performances of each tune make learning easy. All the arrangements are written out in tab and music as well... both the backup and solos91 minutes ? Level 2 ? Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD

101 Christmas songs, combining traditional carols with Christmas pop hits from Slade, Mariah Carey, Paul McCartney, Bing Crosby and many more! All the songs are presented in melody line arrangements, with complete lyrics, chord symbols and Guitar chord boxes. Perfect for guitarists, Keyboard plays and all other musicians. / Ligne Mélodique, Paroles Et Accords

Learn To Play 15 Complete Holiday Classics. Par PENHALLOW PETER. Add to your repertoire with this collection of traditional, easy-to-play holiday classics. You'll practice and reinforce the techniques you've learned in The Acoustic Guitar Method, Book One. Bring these beautiful melodies to life by listening to the companion audio online and then using the transcriptions to practice single-note melodies in open position, basic downstroke strums, and simple chords. / Niveau : Débutant / Recueil / Guitare

for Ukulele Baritone Ukulele Guitar Banjo and Mandolin-The Strum Together series enables players of five different instruments - or any combination of them - to strum together on over 40 great songs. This easy-to-use format features melody lyrics and chord diagrams for standard ukulele baritone ukulele guitar mandolin and banjo. Songs include: Angels We Have Heard on High · Away in a Manger · Blue Christmas · Deck the Hall · The First Noel · Go Tell It on the Mountain · A Holly Jolly Christmas · It Came upon the Midnight Clear · Jingle Bells · Mele Kalikimaka · O Come All Ye Faithful · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · Silent Night · Up on the Housetop · We Wish You a Merry Christmas · and more.

Toddlers and young children love to sing and dance classic nursery rhymes and songs. This activity strengthens bonds with family, encourages brain development and musicality, and most importantly, it's fun! This beautiful keepsake collection of over 100 classic nursery rhymes, playground songs, activity tunes, and memory rhymes ensures that all those bases are covered for parents, teachers, and their kids. Carefully arranged for piano to play and sing with toddlers and young children, each song also includes guitar and ukulele chords for easy strum-and-sing performance. The book features a 'Genre Index' that breaks the titles down into song types and categories---especially useful for educators. Finally, an 'About the Songs' section rounds out the collection with a brief history of all the tunes, and, to demonstrate what the songs should sound like, professional MP3 recordings of every song can be downloaded from alfred.com with purchase. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Third edition of the world's biggest songbook. This is a vast bumper collection, perfect for buskers, of 1001 all-time hit songs.Whatever your taste, there's guaranteed to be tonnes of songs you'll want to play, this book will last you years!Inside the spiral bound cover you will find a generous selection of hit songs, golden standards, jazz and blues numbers, classical pieces, hymns, gospel songs, stage, film and musical music! Arranged here in Melody line arrangements for Piano, Organ, Electronic Keyboards, Guitar and all C instruments, complete with lyrics and chord symbols. / Ligne Mélodique, Paroles Et Accords (Avec Grilles D'Accords)

Over 200 songs children love to sing in one gigantic illustrated volume. Easy piano arrangements, guitar chords and full lyrics. / Piano

Just for Fun: Christmas Mandolin contains over 40 classic Christmas songs. Most of the songs in the book feature three arrangements: the melody in notation and TAB, an easy rhythm option with a simple strum pattern and chords, and an intermediate-level rhythm option written in full notation and TAB. The intermediate rhythm option often combines full melody and chords, making it perfect not only for accompanying a singer and but also for solo performances for friends, family, and recitals. There's even a mandolin chord dictionary in the back of the book. Plus, this book correlates to the matching guitar, ukulele, and banjo editions, so you can have family Christmas jams and sing-alongs.TITLE COMPOSERDance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Op. 71a, #3] Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditional (source)We Three Kings of Orient Are Christmas Traditional (source)God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Traditional (source)Away in a Manger John R. Murray (contributor)O Christmas Tree Traditional (source)Up on the Housetop Christmas Traditional (source)It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Richard S. Willis (contributor) - Edmund H. Sears (lyricist)Jingle Bells James Pierpont (contributor)Silent Night Franz Grüber (contributor)Joy to the World George Frederic Handel (composer) - Isaac Watts (lyricist)What Child Is This? William Chatterton Dix (lyricist) - Traditional (source)I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day J. Baptiste Calkin (contributor) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lyricist)We Wish You a Merry Christmas Traditional (source)O Come, All Ye Faithful Traditional (source)I Saw Three Ships Traditional (source)A Child This Day Is Born Traditional (source)Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ralph Blane (composer) - Hugh Martin (lyricist)Deck the Halls Traditional (source)The Holly and the Ivy Auld Lang Syne Carol of the Birds Simple Gifts The First Noel Holy Night, Peaceful Night O Little Town of Bethlehem Hark! The Herald Angels Sing In the Bleak Midwinter Carol of the Bells Good King Wenceslaus Angels We Have Heard on High Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring March of the Toys (from 'Babes in Toyland') Go Tell It on the Mountain Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Pat-A-Pan (Burgundian) O Holy Night Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song) Coventry Carol / Mandoline

Just for Fun: Christmas Banjo contains over 40 classic Christmas songs. Most of the songs in the book feature three arrangements: the melody in notation and TAB, an easy rhythm option with a simple rhythm pattern and chords, and an intermediate-level rhythm option written in full notation and TAB. The intermediate rhythm option often combines full melody and chords, making it perfect not only for accompanying a singer and but also for solo performances for friends, family, and recitals. There's even a banjo chord dictionary in the back of the book. Plus, this book correlates to the matching guitar, ukulele, and mandolin editions, so you can have family Christmas jams and sing-alongs. / Banjo