How to play Christmastime Is Here

How to play the Charlie Brown Christmas song by Vince Guaraldi. I'm teaching it here as I would to someone who may not know much about chords or chord structures, so if you're more proficient with chords and just want them listed, let me know and I'll post them here.

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• Christmastime
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• Here
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• pianojohn113

[Multi80schick]

Hey, John. I love this song, and lots of other Geuraldi tunes as well. What do you think of George Winston's tribute to Vince, Linus and Lucy. I think his version of "Monterey" is killer!

[pianojohn113]

@Multi80schick "Monterey" is wonderful - some beautiful chords in there, and he captures VG's style perfectly.  I haven't heard that one in years, gotta listen now!

[1954MSH]

Thanks for an interesting, helpful chord-grounded demo. Best wishes.

[pianojohn113]

@1954MSH You're very welcome. Enjoy!

[BeatlesFanCharsh]

OMG IT'S YOU!!!!!!! HAHA!! Mah favourite piano teacher! I was totally looking up how to play this and then saw that you taught it and I was like OH MY GOD. So yes! Ummm thank you!!!

[pianojohn113]

@BeatlesFanCharsh Have fun with it!

[EgyptianRoyalty]

Every time he says "if you don't know chords" I feel inadequate

[pianojohn113]

@sandm1982 Glad you liked this one, thanks. I've been meaning to re-do it with the rest of the song for a few years now, as I'd like to get a better camera angle than the one I had here. Complex chords, for sure!

[mattbeermusic]

this is so helpful. thank you so much and happy holidays.

[snoman2204]

This helped me a ton! Thank you!!!

[pianojohn113]

@KHANHcept I've seen the chords written in different places, and I think musicnotes might have a copy of the actual song that you can download.

[KHANHcept]

where can i get the chords for this? this is absolutely terrific!