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    Hi, fellow guitar fanatic, I trust the twanging is good and the fingertips callused.

    Kirk’s weekly Guitar Lessons

    I’m reminding you this week of a couple of Christmas lessons I did a while back: White Christmas and Jingle Bells. They’re both fingerstyle arrangements and quite challenging … which is why I’m letting you know now so you have plenty of time to practice. You can wow them all on Christmas Day. Below are the links to the lessons, which like all the other fingerstyle lessons consist of a movie, tab, notation, midi files, mp3 and GuitarPro file.

    White Christmas

    Jingle Bells

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