Blue Christmas Song

			
			CHRISTMAS LESSON. 
		
			A Christmas lesson in the blues style, based on an old Polish Christmas carol.		

		Tags : 
			christmas, blues, Poland, bending, vibrato		


		Hello mates! Piotr here. Welcome to my Christmas lesson in the blues style. This time I decided to remodel the old Polish Christmas carol in the Texas blues style, so it sounds a little like SRV.



The melody is pretty simple and easy to memorize. Beginners can have a bit of a problem with the intro and ending of the song, because of hard bendings and pretty fast picking, but I hope that you

won't have any bigger troubles.



We are going to use:



-bendings

-vibrato

-alternate and SRV-like picking :)



I used mostly G major scale and blues pentatonic scale.



chord progression: 

G-----C, D, G, Em, C, D, G, G7, C, D, G, Em, C, D, G-----G



key: G

tempo: 140bpm

time signature: 4/4



This is the preset I used for the POD XT live for this lesson:



Amp: 1958 Tweed B-Man Drive 8 - Bass 8 - Middle 9 - Treble 6 - Presence 2

Cab: 4x10 2001 Line 6

Com: Threshold 30 - Gain 5 

Stp: Classic Distortion

Rev: Standard Spring - 32%



The lesson is available in the guitar pro 5 file, mp3 backing tracks included.



Enjoy!



I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!



Piotr