How to Write Christmas Songs: an Example Song

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Erica Lane with Expert Village talking about how to write a Christmas song on the guitar. It is important to know whenever you are constructing your chorus that it shouldn't be exactly the same sounding as your verse. I'm going to give you an example, so I'm going to sing verse two and then I'm going to go right into the chorus so that you can see the difference in the way that verse two sounds and that the way the chorus sounds. They must be different from each other but it is okay to use the same chordal progressions or the same chords with a variation so that they still do relate to each other. Here is an example. (singing) "