Get Started Playing Blue Christmas on the Acoustic Guitar

Series Summary

The guitar has been around for nearly 5,000 years, developed from even more ancient instruments akin to the sitar, it has been inspiring audiences since its first chord was strummed. It is the primary instrument involved with many genres of music including country, blues, flamenco, rock, and pop, and has been celebrated as one of the most expressive instruments in the world. Whether blending acoustic harmonies on a classical guitar or shredding solos on an electric guitar, the importance of the guitar to 20th century music cannot be ignored.

In this free video series, our expert Bill Macpherson will teach you how to play Blue Christmas on the acoustic guitar. Bill will teach you about chord structures, right hand techniques, and all the specific chords of the song. He will teach you how to play the B7, B minor seventh, A seventh, and F sharp chords. He will also teach you how to do hammer-ons, play walk downs, and play the verses all together. Bill will then play the whole song together so you can hear how it should sound.

Video Transcript

"This is Bill Macpherson for Expert Village. In these series of clips I'm going to be showing you some Christmas songs. This clip we are going to start off with Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley it was written a few years before he did it. So we are going to show you his version which is done a little differently more of a blues style. So right now I'm going to play it for you so you know what it sounds like and we'll get into showing you how to play the chords. (playing guitar & singing) "