An instrumental fingerstyle solo guitar arrangement of It’s Beginning To Look (A Lot) Like Christmas famously sung by Perry Como, Bing Crosby and Michael Bublé. This arrangement is in the key of G and includes guitar tablature plus music notation.
This well know Christmas standard was written by American composer Robert Reiniger Meredith Wilson in 1951. The 1951 Perry Como version has over 382 million streams on Spotify.
The song uses a standard AABA structure using ii V I chords (e.g. Am D7 G) throughout giving It’s Beginning To Look Like Christmas that classic sound from that era. When practicing the tune ensure that the highest notes are emphasised whether they be part of a chord or individual notes as they are part of the melody. The chords can either be thumb strummed or plucked with multiple fingers depending on the part of the song.
The fiddly part of the song is the bridge with the fast octave triplets. Playing these and landing any unfamiliar chord shapes accurately can take many repetitions to land accurately in time.
Have a merry time learning how to play It’s Beginning To Look (A Lot) Like Christmas on guitar over this festive season.
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