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O Christmas Tree Guitar Tab

Composer
Traditional
Year
Key
C
Time
3/4
Tempo
96 BPM
Difficulty
Beginner · ★
First note
G3

O Christmas Tree on guitar

The full melody, rendered as six-string guitar tab in standard tuning you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.

Tuning: E A D G B e (standard) · Strum: D - D

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Trad. German (O Tannenbaum) — public domain.

How to practise this on guitar

O Christmas Tree is in C and the tab opens on G3 — find that fret, settle your hand there, and notice how little it has to move: the arrangement is worked out with a fret-hand position economy, so consecutive notes stay under your fingers instead of leaping up and down the neck. Read the numbers, not the note names: string line plus fret is the whole instruction, and an open string costs you nothing.

Play it well under around 96 BPM with a metronome and let each note ring into the next — the tails under the numbers show you how long. When your take review marks a bar, loop just that bar until the fret-hand shift inside it feels automatic, then rejoin the line. Speed is the last thing you add, never the first. By the numbers, this setting runs 61 notes across 17 bars, from G3 up to A4 in 3/4 time.

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The same melody is graded across 6 Playsoloist instruments. See every version, with difficulty and provenance, on the O Christmas Tree cross-instrument hub.

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