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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the Christmas song, “O Little Town of Bethlehem” on acoustic guitar by yourself (no jam track needed).
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I always look forward to your annual Christmas song Brian. This one is so beautiful in it’s simplicity.
Thank you!
Great arraignment Brian! I thoroughly enjoy all your lessons. I always love the ones where you talk about your thought process when choosing your notes and chords.
Thank you for another beautiful Christmas classic Brian
The song analise with his chords. Love it. Do this for more songs Brian. Thx
Great arrangement on a classic Christmas Song! Love this one! I always look forward to this time of year to see what Christmas song you will do. Thank you for carrying on this tradition!!
A great lesson as always. Your analysis and your thought processes for how you construct the lesson for the song are invaluable. A wealth of learning. I look forward to each lesson. Have a great Christmas
Brian, Great arrangement of this great song . Always look forward to these at this time of year. Thanks and keep up the good works. Dave
Happy Holidays. You are the best, Brian.
Very nice arrangement. Is that Martin a CEO model? Rosewood?
(Love CF Martin and Sons)
Martin CEO-7
Thank you for enlightening this for my next project. Great timing in many ways.
Love it✝️🎶
I love this one too Brian lovely arrangement, wishing you and your family a safe and merry Christmas 😊🇨🇦
Great lesson, beautiful arrangement of this classic Christmas song. I always wonder what Christmas song you will do each year. Wishing you and your family a safe and happy Christmas and New Year. Thanks Brian.
After a few weeks of videos working properly I find that the sign in to demonstrate I’m not a bot looping problem is back. I log out and back in but it still refuses me. I can’t remember the technical solution, nor when it was posted because it the problem seemed to go away without me consciously making any changes, but now it’s back. Can anybody advise please? I’m using a MacBook and I don’t wish to delete all my browsing history.
Try either 1) disabling VPN, or 2) use a browser other than Safari
Hi Brian, this is a lovely arrangement of a lovely melody. In the UK we use a different melody, so I shall have a go at following your method to come up with something similar. Wishing you and yours a happy and peaceful Christmas, Mike
Yes Mike, having finally got the video to play (see above – turned the VPN on) I was befuddled by the tune – not the one I was taught – didn’t recognise it at all! But very nice all the same – lovely arrangement Brian. Must go and listen to a US choral performance!
Great lesson. Love the chord/melody analysis on a familiar song. Brings the composition down to earth.
Thanks Brian
This is a very nice arrangement of this Christmas song. Some great light bulb moments seeing how you get the melody from the chords.
Brian, I love that you honor Christmas every year with a take on a classic Christmas song… while still teaching us no less! A great tradition and another great lesson. Thank you.
Lovely
Another great Christmas song, Thanks! I watched you play it and thought, this is gonna be hard! So many new chords to learn. But after going through it a couple times, it will be easier than I thought.
Thanks for a beautiful arrangement. Hope you and the family had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Your getting close to EP600.
Happy Thanksgiving to you. Thank you for the compelling lesson!
Brian,
Merry Christmas.
I have been a member for a few months but a “player” for decades. Your lessons have been a God send to me as I am enjoying them more than I could have imagined. I’ve read books in the past, learned to read and relearned to read staff notes, tried just using tabs, etc. I think I’ve learned more and have made more progress in the past few months than any time in my lifetime. Being in mediocre cover bands in the 60’s playing what I call bubble gum music I have always wanted to be better at playing more complex works. Maybe, just maybe, your instructional body of work will guide me to what I have been seeking. This year’s Christmas song is great.
SLW…
I’m with you slw. I’m having a similar experience, and every new thing I learn here on the site unlocks even more things. So awesome. Keep playing, brother.
Perfect and right on time. Thank you.
“Easy” for you to say! Merry Christmas to you and yours, Brian!
Hi Brian,
as an early intermediate player, this one is great. Was able to play it entirely through first try! Need to smooth it out a bit, but will be able to add it to my Christmas repertoire along with other of your arrangements. I love the over all simplicity of this, and yet it sounds rich and full! Really enjoyable to play. Thank you, John
This is a lovely piece. Thank you.
Brian, every week I look forward to the lessons, but every year starting in October I start looking forward to to your Christmas lesson. Thank you for continuing sharing your talent with us.
The 6th above the root as the13th is a nice touch!
Enjoy the Holidays Brian🎄and thank you for all your efforts!