Fur Elise

Here is the guitar chord chart of the chords that are used in Fur Elise:

As you can see, these are all very basic chords. Maybe you are used to play the G chord a little different.

Here's the sheet music with guitar tabs for Beethoven's Fur Elise. One important thing (really, I'm not kidding): look at the guitar chord symbols as well as at the guitar tabs. When you see Am or E on top of the guitar tabs, finger that chord and you'll see that the tablature follows the chords. I see a lot of beginning guitarists play the tabs without fingering the chord. The smart beginning guitarist though, will fret the entire chord, it sounds different and he'll develop an understanding of what he is playing. Anyway, here is the sheet music:

Welcome back, did you find Fur Elise hard to play? If there are parts that you don't understand, let me know.

Some fun facts about Fur Elise :

• Who is Elise? Nobody knows for sure. Theory 1 is that Beethoven's song is supposed to call 'Fur Therese', Therese Von Malfatti being a daughter of a Doctor from Vienna. Beethoven wanted to marry Therese, unfortunately she didn't want to marry Beethoven. Fur Elise was published after Beethoven's dead and it is possible that someone misread his handwriting. Theory 2 is that Elise was one of his piano students, Beethoven is known to fall for his piano students. He used to give his female students songs that were too difficult for them to play, so that they had to come back for more piano lessons. Naughty naughty! Theory 3 is that Elise is Elisabeth de Robiano, since 1799 married to Charles Pierre le Candèle de Gyseghem. Fur Elise was written in 1808, so that makes him again a naughty boy!
• A jazzed up version of Fur Elise was played in the Benny Hill Show.
• Fur Elise is a trucker's tune. In Taiwan and Iran the song is played by garbage trucks to tell people it's time to get out the trash. In Brazil it is used by trucks selling gas cilinders and throughout the world Fur Elise is used in ice cream vans.

'Silent Night'

The guitar chords and lyrics for 'Silent Night':

   
   
C                            
Silent night, holy night
G            C
All is calm, All is bright
F                 C  
Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child
F              C
Holy Infant so Tender and mild,
G                 C
Sleep in heavenly peace,
C        G        C
Sleep in heavenly peace.

Silent night, holy night
Shepherds quake at the sight,
Glories stream from heaven afar,
Heavenly hosts sing Alleleulia
Christ the Saviour is born!
Christ the saviour is born.


Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
with the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus Lord at thy birth,
Jesus Lord at thy birth.



   

jingle bells

The guitar chord chart for 'Jingle Bells'

The guitar chords and lyrics for 'Jingle Bells':

C                                             F
Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh,
                  G7                   C
O'er the fields we go, laughing all the way,
C                                      F
Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright,
                 G7                               C
What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh

Chorus:
C                                          C7
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
F              C               D7             G7      
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, hey,
C                                          C7
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way,
F              C               G7             C
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh. 

Other verses:
A day or two ago,
I thought I'd take a ride,
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side;
The horse was lean and lank;
Misfortune seemed his lot;
He got into a drifted bank,
And we, we got upsot.

A day or two ago,
the story I must tell
I went out on the snow
And on my back I fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh,
He laughed as there
I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away.

Now the ground is white
Go it while you're young,
Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bob-tailed bay
two-forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! you'll take the lead.


   

christmas song guitar cord

The guitar chord chart for 'The Christmas Song'

The guitar chords and lyrics for 'The Christmas Song':

Db6       Ebm7           Fm7      Gbmaj7 (Fm7 Ebm7)
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Db6        Abm7    Db7     Gbmaj7  B9
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Db6      B9           Bbm7      Gm7  Gb7
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
   Fmaj7         F#m7    B9  Emaj7 Ebm7 D9       
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.......everybody

Db6     Ebm7            Fm7      Gbmaj7 (Fm7 Ebm7)      
knows a turkey and some mistletoe
Db6     Abm7     Db7    Gbmaj7  B9
Help to make the season bright
Db6  B9              Bbm7      Gm7  Gb7
Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow
    Fm7     E9      Ebm7  D9 Db6
Will find it hard to sleep tonight

              Abm7  Db7      Gbmaj7
They know that Santa's on his way
           Abm7             Db7            Gbmaj7
He's loaded lots of toys and goodies on his sleigh
         F#m7           B7       Emaj7
And every mother's child is gonna spy
         Eb7                         Ab7
To see if reindeer really know how to fly

Db6        Ebm7          Fm7      Gbmaj7 (Fm7 Ebm7)
And so I'm offering this simple phrase
Db6        Abm7    Db7     Gbmaj7  B9
To kids from one to ninety-two
 Db6              B9        Bbm7        Gm7  Gb7
Although it's been said many times, many ways
     Fm7 E9 Ebm7 Ab7 Db6 
Merry Christmas   to you