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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the Christmas song, “Go Tell It On The Mountain” by using the Major Pentatonic Scale.
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Happy holidays🎸
That’s a great arrangement. I’m looking forward to learning it. thanks Brian
Great lesson, beautiful tune.
“Tis the season” Holiday tunes are always cool! Great pick Brian
Brian, Great lesson and great song.Nice one for this time of year. Thanks for Christmas. Dave
Happy Holidays !!
Nice lesson good explanations going to be fun to learn
A Great rendition of a wonderful Christmas song. Very clever and full of interesting swists and turns. Happy Holidays Brian.
Nice version Brian sounds great
I like your arrangement of Go Tell it On the Mountain! Looking forward to taking it on! Merry Christmas, Brian! Enjoying this premium membership so very much. Thanks, Abbie H.
Nice lesson and lots of take aways to add to the journey,.
Happy days 🙂
Our Savior Was Born.
Amen!
go tell it on the mountain, Brian’s made a guitar player out of me!
Brian, your Christmas/Holiday song this time of year is such a nice tradition in AM. I love it.
I hope you had an awesome Thanksgiving!
Good stuff Brian! Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Great lesson. Some light bulbs lit up reference that E run across the fretboard. Very cool lesson.
Thanks Brian
i wished you had put up the chord structures for a second rhythm guitar. But great song and lots of additional ideas that you have presented. Merry Xmas everyone!
Daniel, I did add the chords as well – it’s the 2nd orange PDF button
I look forward to your Christmas songs every year. This one is amazing! I’m addicted to this lesson and have not been able to get the melody out of my head all day! Great work Brian! Thanks for pushing these out in time for us to master before Christmas. Happy holidays!
Mary had a little lamb sounds like a good xmas lesson too
Thanks so much for answering my? about zager guitars last week, what would you recommend me to look at in that price range ? (under 2,000.00) I am 63 yrs old and having a hard time with some bar chords on my Yamaha APX8A . Thanks again and have a nice day. PS I know you live in Nashville TN, do you have a guitar store you would recommend I live in Hendersonville.
I purchased 80 series I think it is a ZAD 80 and absolutely love it very easy to chord. A simple half turn with a Allen wrench lowered the action a little for my comfort level. Customer service and support is fantastic
Thank you very much for letting me know.
Brian, Could you do PDF the same speed as slow walk thru without guitar? .5 speed is too slow and slurred so much it really sounds bad. It is going to take a lot of work to get up to speed without messing up. Thanks if you can. These old fingers are not as fast as they once were. Dave
Hello Brian,
Your lessons and tips are excellent. You are making the fretboard more and more accessible to me. The horizontal and vertical approach of the pentatonic was new to me. This is a super helpful way to look at the fretboard. Thank you very much!
Happy holidays,
Georg
G’day Brian,
Excellent work as always !
M.J..
Fantastic lesson! I spent the better part of the weekend just playing different melodies based on the E major pentatonic scale up and down the fretboard. Light bulbs going off all over the place from this lesson!
Brian, Looking back over reply I noticed I put in PDF when I should have put in MP3 . Senior Moment big time. Sorry will try to do better next time. Great lesson. Liking it more every time I play it. Thanks for all, getting ready for Christmas.
Fun. Brian I could learn this ( as well as most all lessons ) better if there was a slow version of the Jam Track.
Early ES175?
I must have been tired or in a hurry! I didn’t pick up on the chords in the pdf Thanks Brian love that Jimi Hendrix chord C#7#9…
Brian, I know I’ve said this before, but if you aren’t getting some session work, those Nashville studios are missing out!
Thanks Brian for another great arrangement of this classic Christmas melody. Merry Christmas to all.
Brian, Thank you for this lesson. Its terrific. I’ve learned a tremendous amount from your lessons. Keep up the great work. And, Merry Christmas to you and your Family!
Hi, Brian. I’ve really enjoyed learning this one. It’s taken me 3-4 days to get the lead down to where I can play it without following the tabs. Now I’m trying to play along with the jam tracks. But I’m finding that half speed is too slow, and full speed is more than I can do. I wondered, is there any way to do with the jam tracks what you do with the videos, where you can choose the percentage of full speed that you want?
I’ve found that usually 70-80% is pushing the limit for me, and it’s so great to be able to adjust the video speed in small increments. Short of being able to do that with the jam tracks, it sure would be useful to have one more jam track at 3/4 speed for those of us can’t quite keep up with full speed!
Thanks for considering!
There are apps that slow music down with out changing the pitch
Audacity is a free progrmam you can use.
Just google how to use it lots of info on it
Thanks, I’ll check out Audacity!
Transcribe is quite good as well….
Brian, Really having a lot of fun with this one Love the style And big take away On running the E scale fro one end to the other and walking Right up the pentatonic scale.Thanks for all you do.Merry Christmas to all at AM
Hi Brian, love the tune I’ve learned it. backing track is just a tad fast I believe it’s 130 correct? One of my online teachers has the normal version and then one that’s a little slower is it possible you could do that?
Ah ok I READ Donald C,s comment. Going to look into audacity.
How would you suggest to extend the song? Which bars to repeat and where? Thanks