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Learn to play Holiday Christmas Guitar lesson- What Child Is This sample guitar lesson. Full lesson found at http://www.TotallyGuitars.com. Visit the site for free guitar lessons, TARGET program, forum, community, and contests.

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What Child Is This - Guitar Lesson This is a preview of a full lesson found at TotallyGuitars.com Acoustic Guitar Lesson with Neil Hogan What Child is this? Guitar Solo Happy Holidays! The video you are about to watch is just a preview with excerpts froma complete lesson that’s available at Totally Guitars. It’s part of our target program over there. It’s also available for single purchase and it’s available as part of our DVD set called Christmas Guitar Volume 1. I hope you enjoy it and for the rest of the lesson be sure to visit us at Totally Guitars.com. [Demonstration] Beautiful old melody of course this was back centuries. It is green sleeves around Christmas time it’s done as what child is this. We can take a look at today at a very good basic guitar arrangement of this tune. It’s in 3 to 4 times and we’re going to keep a steady alternating base going in playing a bunch of fairly normal chords. We’ll take a look at the chords in just a second but the main thing we have to do in 3 or four times to get a nice steady flowing underlying current at the side… [Demonstration] Most of the song GreenSleeves or What child is this revolves around an Am chord so I’m playing the Am in really much standard finger. My first finger on the 2nd fret of the B string, 2nd and 3rd fingers of the 2nd fret over the 3rd and 4th strings so the most time I’m going to be holding down a chord as we play through it, we’re going to play the Am like this. C are going to happen in there just playing a normal C chord and once in a while we have to move some fingers around to get to it. G chords are all going to be played with your 3rd finger on the low G. Now we don’t always need as a matter fact we never need your 2nd finger on the B and we don’t always need your 4th finger doing anything when we need it it’s usually going to be to play a D here on the 3rd fret of the B string. General finger picking rules can include having your thumb play all the base notes in the song and your fingers play all the melody note and that’s what we’re going to do in what trial is this. So when we’re playing the 5th string in the base for Am chords and the pattern on most of the chords is 3 base notes right I’m just going from Am to C to G, my thumb is going to be hitting the 6th string and the 4th of Gs and then the Em where it’s going to be hitting the 6th and the 4th. Let’s put it together and see what we have kind of break down measure by measure. We start his on with an Am chord on we’re going to hit the A on B 3 of the 0 measure when you have a pick up measure it doesn’t usually count as a measure so the first thing we do is click on open A not the A the A that is no the 3rd string along hitting holding the Am chord down and then we go to a pinch on the 1st beat of the measure followed by the 2nd base note and then a pinch where we had D right here. The melody note that happens on the 3rd beat of that 1st measure. So the first 0 and the first measure before we change the C. Have the D on move to a C chord here and all we really have to do just that C chord is move my 3rd finger from the 3rd string to the 5th string to have a pinch there with my thumb and 3rd finger.