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Santa’s Guitar Playing Troubles

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Last night, I woke in the pitch black with a jolt.

I heard an anguished cry, the sound of strings twanging, and wood cracking.

I quickly ran to my living room to see a very overweight guy in a red suit holding the smashed remains of one of my guitars.

 

“Ho, Ho, Ho,” he said meekly in embarrassment.

After rubbing my bleary eyes, I realised it was…

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Filed Under: Practice Tagged With: Christmas

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (The Grinch, Destruction!, and End of the Year Thoughts)

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The Grinch

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including the Grinch having a gig, end of the year thoughts, and more…

Here we go…

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Filed Under: Equipment, Practice, Riffs, Songs Tagged With: Christmas, learning guitar, Practice

3 Random Thoughts This Monday (George Bailey, 18 days, and a Quick Poll)

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george bailey

Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including how George Bailey can serve as motivation for your guitar journey, a quick poll, and more.

 

Here we go…

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Filed Under: Courses, Fingerpicking, Learning Tagged With: Christmas, fingerpicking, Lead Guitar, motivation

The Greatest Christmas Song of All Time?

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There are loads of great Christmas songs, of course.

Some of my favourites, though, are the classic carols.

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Filed Under: Learning, Songs Tagged With: Christmas, Classic Songs, learning new songs

3 Random Thoughts this Thursday (the Grinch, an Alternative Gift, and a Christmas Guitar Tips)

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‘Twas the Night before Christmas and this being the case, I decided to do a special version of my 3 random weekly thoughts, including some Christmas guitar tips …

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Filed Under: Learning, Performing, Practice Tagged With: Christmas, learning guitar, Performing

Learn my “Medium” difficulty fingerstyle arrangement of ‘Silent Night’ – with tab, chords and a video play-through

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“Silent Night” is one of the most recognisable Christmas carols of all time, and in my opinion one of the most spiriting and emotional. Here we have the video of me playing it and the tab and chords below so you can learn it too!

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Filed Under: Fingerpicking, Songs Tagged With: beginner guitar, Christmas, Fingerstyle, Fingerstyle Arrangements, Silent Night

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