Your Guide to Free Christmas Guitar Tablature on the Internet!
Christmas Carols & Songs for Guitar

Guitar Tablature Guide: Christmas & Traditional
A few recommendations for those in the Christmas Spirit!

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Editor's Picks...
Below are our personal picks, the sites that get our highest recommendation for this genre. They are listed in alphabetical order.

Note: Most of these sites do not exclusively feature Christmas sheet music. In other words, they have Christmas sheet music, but others as well, so you have to navigate to the Christmas section of the site.

Christmas Song Guitar Tab & Lyrics
Instrumentation for: Guitar
Categories: Christmas

Catalog Size: Medium (25-50)
This is About.com's collection of holiday favorites for guitar. A good selection of Christmas songs and lyrics, including not only favorite traditional songs, but tabs for renditions of new Christmas songs by U2, the Kinks, Blues Traveller and others.

The Gospel Music Archive
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature), Harmonica
Categories: Christian, Christmas
, Children
Catalog Size: Very Large (500+?)
Here you'll find a very large selection of tablature for both guitar and, strangly enough, harmonica. Music is sorted alphabetically for easy browsing, and a search tool is available. While the site is predominantly dedicated to worship and praise music, you'll also find a nice selection of other songs. There's an entire section for kids, as well as a large variety of Christmas songs. Updated 12/31/2001


Noel, Noel, Noel
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar Lead Sheets, Voice.
Categories: Christmas

Catalog Size: Small (10-25)
Noel, Noel, Noel is a beautiful website dedicated to the celebration of Christmas. Included in their free online offerings are over a dozen Christmas carols arranged both for each
piano (with voice parts) as well as for guitar, with melody and chords. You'll find Away in a Manger, I Saw Three Ships, O Come All Ye Faithful, We Three Kings and others. Well worth visiting if only to view the site's original artwork. At Noel, Noel, Noel, you'll find lots of Christmas cheer to keep your days jolly. Updated 12/03/2002.

Praise-Worship.net
Instrumentation for: Guitar Tablature, Bass Tablature
Categories: Christian
, Christmas, Kids
Catalog Size: Huge (6000+)
This fantastic web site features thousands of guitar and bass tabs for the Christian musician. You'll find over 4000 tabs by popular Christian artists (including all the big names) and over 1400 praise and worship tunes, all searchable by artist or song name. In addition, you'll find nearly 100 Christmas tunes, tunes for kids, transparencies and chord charts. One of the top sites in this category. Very highly recommended. Reviewed 12/18/2000.




More Free Christmas Sheet Music Resources:

A Traditional Music Library
Instrumentation for: Piano, Voice or Guitar (Lead Sheets for All)
Categories: Traditional
, Christmas
Catalog Size: Huge (1000+)
This huge sheet music library contains thousands of songs in a melody + chord format. The 'library' is divided into 'songbooks' containing different styles of music making it easier to find the kind of music you want. For example, there are bluegrass songbooks, songbooks containing Irish folk tunes, scottish, christmas, cowboy songs, bawdy songs, 'well known traditional tunes', and many more. Once you select a songbook, you'll get a long list of songs available in alphabetical order. Each song contains the melody, chords, and a MIDI file for the song so you can listen to how it should go. The entire library is free here but also available for purchase on CD which gives you much higher quality scores than those here. Also, don't miss the selections available in Noteworthy Composer format. Added 06/05/2001.

ezFolk.com
Instrumentation for: Folk Guitar, Banjo, Ukulele
Categories: Traditional, Christmas
, Popular
Catalog Size: Medium (50-100)
Richard Hefner’s excellent instructional site for banjo, folk guitar, and ukulele includes tablature and tutorials as well MP3 files for most of the songs. You'll find a number of Christmas selections, as well as popular folk favorites such as
Amazing Grace, Blue Mountain, Cripple Creek, and Greensleeves. Don't miss the special tab provided for the music from O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Reviewed 10/08/2001.

Nottingham Folk Music Database
Instrumentation for: Guitar, Folk & Traditional Instruments
Categories: Folk, Christmas, Historical

Catalog Size: Very Large (1000+)
Fans of renaissance or traditional folk music will really appreciate the Nottingham Folk Music Database, which contains chords and melodies for over a thousand folk songs. Selections include jigs, reels, waltzes and more. Music is downloadable in PDF, GIF, and ASCII (text) format. MIDI files are also provided for most songs. Over 30 Christmas selections are included as well. Added 05/20/2003.

Songs of Praise: Original Worship Sheet Music
Instrumentation for: Piano, Guitar Tablature and Lead Sheets
Categories: Christian
, Christmas
Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Here you'll find a fantastic collection of original songs for worship and praise in your church by numerous artists. This well organized site features nearly two hundred songs, most with free downloadable sheet music you can print right from your web browser. Each song also has a midi file, and many of the songs also have RealAudio and MP3 files to listen to. There's also a very nice selection of sheet music arrangements for original Christmas music. Many songs even include translations, for French, Dutch, Italian, Chinese and many others. Check out the 'Jukebox' which allows you to listen to the songs featured here. Updated 04/22/2002.

Split Infinity Music: Public Domain Worship and Praise
Instrumentation for: Guitar (Tablature)
Categories: Christian, Christmas

Catalog Size: Large (100-500)
Split Infinity Music offers a wide selection of public domain Christian guitar tablature including Hymns, choruses, and Christmas music. They also have one very unique feature... the ability to instantly transpose your selection to any other key. So, if you decided you would rather play
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God in the key of E rather than the default key of D, you can do that with a single click. Very cool. Finally, you can browse and listen to MIDI files for over 2000 church hymns. Updated 11/13/2001.

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