Christmas Songs 2025 - (GrumpyMac welcomes you to join in)

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Here is the Christmas Songs topic for 2025

The goal of this topic is to gather in just one place our Christmas related videos ( AVOYP ) and use it as an easy to find archive in the years to come

You can perfectly post your Christmas related videos in your own logs or in a individual AVOYP , but please , share at least a link toward your video in this topic to keep a trace of it in the archive

You can share any type of songs , traditional songs from your countries , pop , rock , metal , non christian songs , etc , as long as it is in the holiday spirit
You can play on an electric, an acoustic, a uke, pots and pans … anything !

Don’t be shy if you’re a beginner, all levels are welcome !!!
The JG community is very supportive , especially at Christmas time !

Put your antlers on or wear your best Santa suit and lets all enjoy the end of year together !

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Lets start this year’s party !

I decided to go with Last Christmas by Wham because it’s not Christmas without Wham isn’t it ?
It could have been better if I had time to practice it but I completely forgot that I should share a song and the only one I know is for the next OM so I only had a week and a half to learn a new one .
Too bad cause my teacher showed me some nice stuff to add more variations to the song
Next year maybe ?

Here is the best I could in just one week

I used this lesson to learn it : https://www.justinguitar.com/songs/wham-last-christmas-chords-tabs-guitar-lesson-st-116

Ok guys , now its your turn !
Post your videos under mine :slight_smile:

MERRY CHRISTMAS !

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Hi All
Christmas, the time of repetitions, my song also fits in well with that tradition… :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: …

Another song ( part) the chord melody that Justin plays from ‘Fairytale Of New York’, timing errors keep creeping in at 2 points…that will have to cook a while… :grimacing:

Greetings

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I just love the way you play
its nice and smooth

You must have put hours of practice to get there
a really nice christmas piece :heart_eyes:

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Thank you Deborah :blush:
It is safe to say “turn those hours into days” otherwise the number will be a bit large :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:, I divided it over 2 ‘after the summer’ periods until Christmas, this was really very difficult for me to learn and the funny thing is that I still don’t know why this was so much more difficult than my ‘Silent Night’ ( I guess the speed ?)… but fortunately I am still very happy with it and will practice it every day from now on because you never know when someone will put a guitar in your hands ,although those chances are very small this year…nice and quiet here :sweat_smile:

Greetings :christmas_tree:

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Well done Deborah, great all round performance and video production. All very Christmassy! :evergreen_tree:

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Thanks a lot :slight_smile:

For the editing part I was influenced by @Silvia80 ’s video from last year :stuck_out_tongue:

I hope you ll participate too @Willsie

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Very much in keeping with the theme Rogier. Very well played.

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Two great starts here! I really enjoyed both Rogier and Deborah’s pieces. Merry Christmas all

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Sweet. I am feeling all festive this morning now.

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Thanks for creating this topic again Deborah.

Well played, on your Christmas song. The tone was just right and you played it with good feel.

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Fabulous Rogier, some smooth finger-style and a perfect tone.

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Bravo, Deborah! :bouquet:
Well played with nice embellishments throughout, even visual seasonal cheer added :christmas_tree: :santa_claus:
I’m not sure if it is just my poor ear, or whether I heard a slight mismatch between the tuning of your guitar and the backing track, so I had a quick look on UG to check the suggested key.
Most of them indicate it’s in D (and play it in C with capo on 2nd fret). I haven’t had a go or even a proper listen. Anyone else any thoughts on this? :thinking:
That’s irrelevant anyway- congratulations and Merry Christmas!

@roger_holland Aaaahh… the gift that keeps giving… even better the second time around :face_savoring_food:
Seriously, well done for the playing, as well as joining in the festive season :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

And last but not least, my humble offering of a Christmas carol that is new to me this week:
I support The Burning Hell on Patreon and they have just come back from two weeks recording in Ireland with an artist called Carsie Blanton. She’s an American protest singer I had never heard of before, but I dipped into some of her stuff and came across her cover of this Anais Mitchell song. (She gets an extra dollar a month from me too now :rofl:)
I knew straight away I’d have to ‘learn’ it and play it as an opener for the house gig I’m hosting this Saturday :laughing:
Have peaceful festive season everyone, whatever deity you believe in or don’t :wink:

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You re right !
I learned the song using Justin’s lesson
when I wanted to record I realised the song was no more available on the app to use it as backing track
So I used Yousician but had no idea what key it was , it seemed to me it was D but wasnt sure
Im not used to changing key … I had a very short delay to record , I had no time to learn it on the spot so I did with what I had at hand
it didnt sound too bad

As I said I did my best in just 1 week :sweat_smile:

Good job with your song but it sounded so sad :sob:

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Wow, I am so impressed with you all Deborah @GrumpyMac , Rogier @roger_holland and Brian @brianlarsen that you have your songs ready on Dec 1st! All so different and all so very enjoyable in their own right. My song is chosen but I need a few more days to practise. I try and post before Xmas this year.

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well I’m impressed Molly. Every year I pick a Christmas song to learn and more often then not I don’t get it ready in time.

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That’s one hell of a song Brian. The lyrics really resonate. I have to resist the temptation to say more, it would break the community rules…and at Christmas! :joy:

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@roger_holland

This is so easy on the ears, and super Christmas-y. Well played Rogier!

@brianlarsen

Nice! I’ve never heard of this song, but this is a good find. I like your version of it, seems like you’re having fun with it and it suits you well!

@GrumpyMac

Such a good a song. Can’t believe you learned it within a week! It sounds real nice, and bonus points for the festive video!

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T’is the season to be jolly ………

Well Brian, that was a Christmas song with a message. Powerful stuff. All the traditional Christmas songs have a message, usually about peace and understanding, but that was rather a savage one.
Well played and sung with some great dynamics and feeling.

Good luck with the house gig this weekend. You’ll hopefully play some ‘jolly’ stuff too. :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

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I definitely want to join, but there’s only one christmas song I am able to play and sing right now (and not securely enough yet) and I would like to keep it until the next OM and only post afterwards.
But maybe I’ll manage to get another song before this under my fingers - who knows…

@roger_holland I love your performance! :heart:

@brianlarsen yours too :heart:

@GrumpyMac now that I listened to your song with the backing track 1.9 semitones tuned down, love yours too :slight_smile: :heart:

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