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10 Cool Christmas Chord Melody Arrangements

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April 3, 2021 by Klaus Crow

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A chord melody arrangement consists of both melody (solo) and harmony (chords) of a song. This kind of playing is very appealing to the listeners ear but also really fun to practice and perform for the guitar player.

Chord Melody is often used in Jazz playing and Christmas songs. It’s a really cool technique to learn, explore and add to your skill set.

Today we got 10 cool Christmas chord melody guitar arrangements.
These arrangements are probably more suited for intermediate and advanced level. Having said that, don’t let me stop you from trying.

If you’re looking for more easy Christmas songs check out the Top 35 Easy Christmas Guitar Songs and 10 Easy Christmas Solo Fingerstyle Arrangements

Enjoy!

1 – White Christmas – TABS

2 – Silent night – TABS

3 – Have yourself a merry little Christmas – TABS

4 – First Noel – TABS

5 – Jingle bell rock – TABS
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The New Guitar Regimen: Feel Great, Superfit and Improve Your Playing Faster

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May 12, 2019 by Klaus Crow

The New Guitar Regimen: Feel Great, Superfit and Improve Your Playing FasterTo improve your guitar playing you have to practice regularly. That’s a no-brainer. To make sure you actually do that you must have time, motivation, energy and focus.

Time is one thing (if that is not enough), but motivation, energy and focus are equally important and really need to be in place to make your guitar regimen rock solid.

For some this may look unattainable, but it can be done.

Let’s take a look at the key ingredients to make this work:

Prepare
Yes, prepare, prepare, prepare!
1 – Write down in your calendar at what days, what times and for how long you’re going to practice (30 or 60 min).
2 – Schedule another 30 min extra time before practice (I’ll explain in a minute).
3 – Inform family and friends your practice time is sacred and they can’t disturb you while you’re at it.
4 – Find or create a quiet and private practice space, where nobody will find you :)
5 – Set up your equipment, your guitar(s), sheet music, and necessary tools (pick,capo,tuners,etc.) the day before practice, so you are ready to roll.
6 – Make sure nothing comes in between you and your practice regimen. Make it so.

Table of Contents
Next, write out the table of contents for your practice workout. How are you going to spend those valuable 30 to 60 minutes of full blown practice?

Make sure it contains everything you love to play and things that drive you to get better and better. Choose, print and write down the scales, licks, exercises, chords, progressions and solos you want to work on. Get your nice blues jamtracks ready for improvisation, find some ear training exercises, and music theory to study, and above all, select the songs you love to play.
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Top 30 Best Electric Guitar Rock Songs of the 70’s

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April 2, 2020 by Klaus Crow

Top-30-Best-Electric-Guitar-Rock-Songs-of-the-70s-1The 70’s really was the area of great electric guitar rock bands. Strong riffs, beautiful solos and solid rock songs were emerging from the ground. It was a great decade for the guitar.

As students for life we are still reaping the fruits today when we are practicing and playing the songs from that time and learning from the minds of those creative guitar players.

To get started we’ve got a list of 30 legendary electric guitar rocks songs from the 70s. As always the list is to inspire, explore and motivate. It’s in no particular order and definitely incomplete ;) If you’re more into acoustic, no problem, check out the Top 30 Best Acoustic Guitar Songs of the 70s.

Please share your favorite electric guitar rock song from 70’s in the comments. I really appreciate it.

Each song title contains a YouTube link to the original song. The “Chords” and “TAB” links provide the sheet music and the “Official Chords/TAB” link will show the official chords and tablature.

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Enjoy the songs and keep on rocking!

1 – Hotel California – The Eagles – Chords – TAB – Official Chords/TAB

2 – Layla – Derek and the Dominos – Chords – TAB – Official Chords/TAB

3 – Stairway to heaven – Led Zeppelin – TABS – Official Chords/TAB

4 – Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd – Chords – Official Chords/TAB

5 – Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen – Chords – Official Chords/TAB

6 – Free Bird – Lynyrd Skynyrd – TAB – Official Chords/TAB

7 – Sultans of swing – Dire Straits – Chords – Official Chords/TAB

8 – The Boys Are Back in Town – Thin Lizzy – Chords

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How to Play Guitar and Improve When You Feel Too Tired

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May 12, 2019 by Klaus Crow

How-to-Play-Guitar-and-Improve-When-You-Feel-Too-TiredYou are busy, you’re making late hours, you’re weekends are full, and you’re just too tired. The moment you finally can sit down to relax, it’s hard to pick up the guitar. You really love playing, but at the end of the day you’re worn out.

Feeling tired after a hard days work is a reality, no doubt about it, but somewhere in that tired feeling there is also a part of the story you are telling yourself. Often when we feel too tired to do something and we do it anyway the story and the feeling disappears.

Especially when you start doing something that will make you feel better when you do it like exercise or playing guitar.

So, along with this knowledge you also need a trigger that makes you want to pick up your guitar.

Again, it all has to do with the story you tell yourself.

The moment you come home from work and sit down, start to be aware of your thoughts and the inevitable excuses your mind is going to make up to escape practicing.

Stop those thoughts immediately! They are just lazy thoughts, banish ‘m.

It could also be that you aren’t thinking about practicing at all, because of everything else in your life that comes first, like making dinner, errands, kids, homework, temptations and distractions.
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