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Learn "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

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Learn "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" for Clawhammer

In today's featured video lesson, Jacob from the Clawhammer and Frailing Banjo YouTube channel shares his clawhammer arrangement of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen".

This is a fairly simple tune to learn, since it has just two parts (A and B), and both are quite short. He walks through it phrase by phrase, with the tab on screen.

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