So here we have a really well known Christmas Carol, we wish you a Merry Christmas. Once again, I've added two guitar parts. As before, the top part is the melody, while the bottom part is the chords. Now let's start right from the beginning and talk through it. The first thing we observe is that there's no key signature. So we know that we're in the key of C, the beater is three, four, just like Happy birthday, and the tempo is 115 beats per minute.

We have a lead in bar and as you can see, the melody starts on the third beat of this bar. You'll notice a double bar line with the repeat sign at the beginning of the first bar. And if we jump ahead, we see another repeat bar line at the end of bar eight. With these repeats signifies that when we reach the end of bar eight, we should jump back to the beginning of bar one and repeat bars one to eight, at which point we carry on to bar nine and play on until the end of the song. Something to be careful of here is that this repeat doesn't include the lead in ba you want to repeat that Only those bars between the two repeat sons. Now it's worth mentioning that some folks may not be familiar with this form of the song, where the first eight bars repeat.

There is another version which just plays straight through the whole song without the repeats. The reason I chose this version is to illustrate the point that repeat bars don't always have to come right at the end of a piece of music. As we saw in Yankee Doodle, it can be found anywhere in the music where repeats are required. Melody wise The song is pretty straightforward, nothing too tricky, but bear in mind that this one is a lot faster than the others at 115 beats per minute. Speaking of which, let's check out the high and low notes of the melody. The lowest note is the note G played on your open G string.

The first time we see this low G is in the leading bar. Then again in bars 468 12 and 14. The highest note is in bar 14. Again the note G which as you know is played on your high E strings. The Fred also noticed that occurring between the Haji node and the G on your open G string. That's a big jump to watch out for.

Now, we should also talk about the chords in the song because there are two chords that look a little out of place, namely the D seven and the E seven. All of the other chords belong to the key of C, but these two are borrowed from outside of the key to add harmonic interest. Notice that there's an F sharp note in the D seven chord and the G sharp note in the E seven chord. As you know neither of these notes belong to the C major scale. In music we refer to these outside notes as accidentals. It's quite interesting that while the hominis employee to outside chords, the melody just sticks to the notes of the C major scale.

So with that said, let's see how you played