Mel Bay MEL BAY 20973BCD Christmas Favorites for Solo Guitar (Book and CD) by Dix Bruce

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20973BCD

Christmas Favorites for Solo Guitar (Book and CD)

Best-Loved Traditional Songs for Bluegrass Guitar

by Dix Bruce

Included audio CD!

Learn great flatpicking solos on 30 wonderful Christmas and Holiday tunes!

Aimed at beginning and intermediate guitarists, this collection of traditional Holiday favorites will be a great addition to any guitarist's repertoire. Most solos use the basic bluegrass/folk bass note/strum technique with melodies integrated into known chord patterns.

Others feature the arpeggio strum, a beautiful chord melody technique.

Explore transposing solos from one key to another, changing and mixing meter (3/4 to 4/4), soloing in more than one octave, playing a solo with others as a round, and more!

Sing and play all your favorite carols and Christmas songs in the flatpicking/bluegrass style.

Included audio CD has all solos played at slow and regular speeds.

Standard notation and tablature.

Learn great flatpicking solos on 30 wonderful Christmas and Holiday tunes!
For beginning and intermediate guitarists
Use the basic bass note/strum technique
Melodies integrated into known chord patterns
Learn the arpeggio strum,a beautiful chord melody technique
Practice transposing solos from one key to another
Practice changing and mixing meter (3/4 to 4/4)
Learn soloing in more than one octave
Playing a solo with others as a round
Sing and play all your favorite carols and Christmas songs
A great addition to any guitarist's repertoire

CONTENTS:

Christmas Favorites for Solo Guitar

Angels We Have Heard on High      
Auld Lang Syne      
Away in a Manger      
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella      
Children Go Where I Send Thee      
Deck the Hall      
Ding Dong Merrily on High      
Go Tell It on the Mountain      
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen      
Good King Wenceslas      
Here We Come A'Caroling      
Hey Ho, Nobody Home      
I Saw Three Ships      
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear      
Jingle Bells      
Jolly Old St. Nicholas      
Joy to the World      
O Christmas Tree      
O Come all Ye Faithful      
O Come, O Come Emmanuel      
O Holy NIght      
Rise Up, Shepherds, and Follow      
Silent Night      
The Coventry Carol      
The First Noel      
The Friendly Beasts      
Toyland      
Up on the Housetop      
We Three Kings of Orient Are      
What child is This?