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The Whole Note: Christmas Guitar Guru Sale, Contest and a New Christmas Song

Posted on Dec 12, 2008 by Monica in The Whole Note

Don’t Just Play Guitar, become a Christmas Guitar Guru!

Whether you’re learning to play guitar for the first time or are a pro, get the most out of your guitar with a special offer for Guitar Guru Sessions. From now until midnight, December 25th, experience the spirit of the holidays by downloading one of our Christmas Guitar Guru Sessions for only $4.95. This offer is an exceptional value because included with the session, you also receive the guitar sheet music, (also known as guitar tab), for your favorite Christmas songs.

Haven’t tried Guitar Guru before but would like to? After you learn more about Guitar Guru, we invite you to install our Guitar Guru software for free. Remember, every month you can download a free Guitar Guru Session that includes the corresponding guitar sheet music when you download it. This month’s free download of the month is a lovely Nutcracker Medley, our holiday gift to you.

We hope that this holiday season gives you the chance to bring your family together with a beautiful Christmas guitar song!

Have You Voted in our Musicnotes.com YouPerform Contest for November?

We’ve had a spectacular response to our Musicnotes.com November YouPerform contest voting, but we still need your help to decide November’s contest winner. Voting is scheduled to end on December 15, 2008, but we may extend the voting period because we opened the polls for voting later than we had expected due to the holiday.

Currently, we have two guitarists and three piano players. One of the guitarists also lent her voice to the Christmas Medley as well.

Thank you to all those who have participating in voting so far, we appreciate your participation!

Sheet Music for Bring Him Home Santa

The Christmas song, “Bring Him Home Santa,” has truly had its journey. Written by Rory Feek and Tim Johnson, this song is written from a child’s perspective, asking Santa to bring home their dad safe and sound from military duty.

Part of what makes this Christmas song unique, is how the song has evolved. The songwriter, Rory Feek, has offered an online diary tracking the history of the song from 2006 forward. You can read the song’s diary to follow the history of how it had evolved. This particular entry showed us a little bit about how the songwriting process for “Bring Him Home Santa” had started:

By the time I got there, Tim had already started on the song. He said, “You’ve got to get down here right now” (we were writing in the basement that day due to lack of room) and he played me the opening lines “Dear Santa… I need to change my Christmas list… There’s one big thing I missed”, which I of course loved. He envisioned the song starting as a letter to Santa and the idea of a child missing his or her Daddy at Christmas time. He and I both believe in the ‘magic’ of songs… that they themselves have a story to tell. And sometimes although as a songwriter you might have an idea of what you want to say or where you want the song to go… if it’s a really great song… it will lead you.–SOURCE: Diary Entry from Bring Him Home Santa!

We were very excited to read about how this song came about, because it really does speak to one of our mantras, “Every song truly has a story!”

Before you download Christmas sheet music for the new Christmas song Bring Him Home Santa and add your voice to this touching story, we invite you to listen to this song. To hear the song or watch a video of it, please visit the website of Bring Him Home Santa!.

Santa Says, “Yes, Musicnotes Will Deliver in Time for Xmas!”

We have been busy, little elves doing our best to work with the fine folk at our delivery service to ensure that you will receive your gifts on time. From midnight on December 15th, if you order any gift that requires delivery through UPS, we will guarantee that your gifts will arrive in time for Christmas. Our Musicnotes.com holiday shipping policy will provide you with more details, but we would like to point out that this offer is good for items that are in stock.

For example, if you would like to order the Wicked sheet music book, you would simply look at the red text displaying “In Stock” and order through UPS to qualify. This offer relates to songbooks, sheet music books, audio CDs and other gifts that require shipping.

Do you have questions? If you do, please visit our Musicnotes.com Customer Support Center where you will be able to review our FAQ or contact Musicnotes.com customer service team. They are working hard to ensure you will have a merry, musical holiday and will be happy to help you.

Bella’s Lullaby from Twilight is coming to Musicnotes.com in December 2008

We have been overwhelmed with requests for this particular song from the movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer’s book series.

As we mentioned in a breaking update on our post entitled, “Twilight Soundtrack and Sheet Music for Twilight Playlist,” we have received confirmation from the publisher that we will receive the folio (i.e. the hard copy or printed sheet music for the song) within the next two weeks. We are expecting to offer the digital sheet music for Bella’s Lullaby by the end of December, provided all goes well with the publisher.

Additionally, there have been other, numerous requests for songs like Decode from the band Paramore as well. We are following up on these song requests, and will provide you with more news once we receive more communication from the song publishers regarding licensing.

Thank you for reading today’s Whole Note, we hope you will enjoy a fabulous weekend!

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