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Your Christmas party is likely coming up this Thursday or Friday night. At that party, you are going to impress all of your co-workers/friends (single guys=single women) with a few Christmas renditions on the guitar.

Hey, who does not like music? Furthermore, who can possibly turn you down after they’ve downed five egg nogs?

Case closed.

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A lot of people will wait until the New Year to make those resolutions but we here at GLC have one more challenge left for 2010. What about learning a few X-Mas tunes on the guitar?

Sure, you may only perform these songs for one month out of each year but they make for a highly original way to celebrate the holidays. Additionally, all of the songs below are pretty easy and appropriate for most beginners who know a few open chords and can strum.

So let’s get into our exclusive playlist:

• Deck the Halls
• The First Noel 
• Frosty the Snowman 
• Hark the Herald Angels Sing
• Jingle Bells
• Joy to the World 
• O Come all Ye Faithful 
• We Three Kings 
• We Wish You a Merry Xmas 
• White Christmas  

Jingle Bells

Learn to play this simple classic with the chords displayed (above the lyrics) below.

C F 
Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh/
G7 C 
O’er the fields we go, laughing all the way/
C F 
Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright/ 
G7 C 
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh/

(Chorus)

C C7 
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way/
F C D7 G7 
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, hey/
C C7 
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way/
F C G7 C 
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh/

*Continue to strum each chord until the next chord comes up in the lyrics.

Merry Christmas!

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Check back next week as GLC introduces New Year’s Resolutions for the Guitar.