As a guitar player, with Christmas approaching, you know what’s coming…
Those family get togethers where someone says: “Hey why don’t you bring over your guitar?”
Great! What a fun way to get some more guitar playing in. But you know what’s going to happen…
Once you start playing, it won’t be long before the requests start rolling in.
And you know what that means: you better know some Christmas songs!
In today’s tutorial we will look at how to play the ever popular and frequently requested Good King Wenceslas.
What we will do in this tutorial is look at a chord-melody arrangement for this popular Christmas Carol.
The great thing about chord-melody arrangements is you get to be your own one-man or woman band.
Good King Wenceslas Chord Melody
In a chord-melody arrangement you play the chords and melody together.
Chord-melody arrangements sound great on the guitar and are lots of fun to play.
In this chord-melody arrangement, I’ve kept the chords fairly simple—all major chords to be exact.
All chord voicings in this arrangement use just 3 or 4 strings.
This arrangement can be played with a pick or in finger-style.
If you are an intermediate to advanced guitar player, you will have this song nailed down pretty quick.
If you are a beginner, you will find the arrangement quite challenging, but it is still doable.
There are no special or strange fingerings needed to perform this song. Simply follow the tab or standard notation.
Here’s the link for Good King Wenceslas Guitar Chord-Melody Sheet Music.
So there you go, have fun with this arrangement.
By the way, if you need some really easy arrangements for Christmas Songs and Carols (not in chord-melody style) with chords, lyrics and melody shown, you may want to consider 15 Easy Christmas Favourites with Just 3 Chords.
This will give you a really quick and easy way to learn some of the most popular and requested Christmas songs. Everything is in tab, standard notation and chord diagrams.
