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Piano Lesson: Learn To Play Jingle Bells Without Piano Sheet Music 2

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

In this piano lesson we will learn to play piano Christmas music. We will use piano tab notation so you don’t need to read piano sheet music.

Jingle Bells is one of the most popular secular Christmas songs in the world. The most played part of the song is the refrain which we will concentrate on in this piano lesson.

Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh

In this piano lesson you will learn to play Jingle Bells without the use of piano sheet music. After this learn to play piano tutorial you will be able to play the melody with both hands!

Instead of piano sheet music we will use piano tab notation which will tell you where to place your fingers as you play the melody.

The first thing we will do is to locate the note C.

You will find the note C on many places on the piano. It is the white key to the left of two black keys.

Now it’s time to locate the middle C. It is the C right in the middle of the keyboard. On an ordinary upright piano it is near the keyhole.

In our piano lesson we will number the keys. The middle C in our piano tab notation is called 1.

What does 1 mean?

When you see the number 1 you are to press down the middle C once. The white key to the right of C is called 2, the next 3 and so on.

Let’s play some piano tab notes:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Now you have played a C-major scale with the actual notes C D E F G A B.

Let’s proceed in our piano lesson and play the first notes of Jingle Bells!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

3 3 3 3 3 3

This is the first part of the refrain. Easy?

I guess that you hear that the third and sixt note has to be a bit longer to create the melody Jingle Bells.

So far we have only used the right hand for playing the melody. How can you use your left hand?

Let’s make this piece a little bit more difficult and also more rewarding to

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Children’s Christmas Traditions 0

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

“Santa Claus is coming to Town” is one the main Christmas songs that most children know. My children are no different. That song always made them remember to be on their best behavior or else Santa might just pass by their house on Christmas Eve. There are many ways to convince children to settle down and behave, but none quite as convincing as hearing part of a song, “He knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake”.

My children are like most when it comes to dreaming and wishing for the big day and all the magic that Christmas brings. They want to decorate the house with lights and figurines, and each one always had their favorites. The first thing that my son wanted to display was the Nativity scene that he had made at school when he was 7 years old. His teacher at church had given 20 Popsicle sticks to each child, but 5 had been cut in half. His class glued the sticks together in the shape of a house, with the cut sticks being the sides. It was made much like Lincoln logs were designed, and a small Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus glued on the bottom sticks. It made a pretty centerpiece on the television with a few red candle votives on each side.

Our family had started collecting small ceramic houses. A new one was added for each child. One wanted the toy store, another one wanted a church, and the last one wanted a big Victorian manner house. Putting up the miniature village was our oldest daughter’s choice as the second Christmas decoration to be displayed. We always had it on a quilted red cloth and it was beautiful with all the little indoor lights in the miniatures turned on at night.

The next decoration to put up was the Christmas candles in the windows, with an animated Santa and Mrs. Claus. A new tradition that started with our youngest son by adding lighted wreaths in each window. Of course, my favorite decoration was a large door wreath with a gold angel in the middle and gold leaves and

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The Twelve Songs of Christmas: Surprising Secrets of the Season’s Most Popular Tunes 25

Posted on December 04, 2010 by Jennib And Friends

The holidays are filled with joyful emotions and honored
traditions, including the playing of songs about snowmen, St.
Nick, evergreen trees, and presents wrapped up with big pretty
bows. No matter how you celebrate the season, you’ll hear these
songs on the radio, on TV, at the mall, in the office, and just
about anywhere music is performed.

If you think the same songs are played over and over, you’re
right, but if this bothers you, consider the alternative:
Christmas carols were banned in England between 1649 and 1660.
Oliver Cromwell, serving as Lord Protector of Britain, believed
Christmas should be solemn and also banned parties, limiting
celebrations to sermons and prayer services.

Lots of holiday songs are festive, many have spiritual
overtones, and all are played so often that they are familiar no
matter what your faith. But what do you know about how these
songs were created and the people who wrote them?

There are some fascinating facts behind this memorable music.
So, toss a log in the fireplace, pour yourself a hot toddy or
some cold eggnog, and sit back as we reveal the secrets behind
many of the tunes you are going to be hearing dozens of times
during December.

“The Christmas Song,” Mel Torme and Bob Wells, 1944. On a
sweltering July day in Los Angeles, 19-year-old jazz singer
Torme worked with 23-year-old Wells to create this beautiful
tune. Full of wintry images and a charming wistfulness for all
the delights of the season, the song became an enormous hit by
Nat “King” Cole the following year. In Torme’s autobiography, he
says Wells wasn’t trying to write lyrics but was simply jotting
down ideas that would help him forget about the heat wave.

“The First Noel,” Traditional, 16th or 17th century. Some say
this is a song with a British background while others insist it
has French origins. So far, no one has any definitive proof. Two
thing are for certain: first, it’s very popular if two countries
are

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