Easy villancinos to learn how to play at Christmas
Tucaina, Fish at the river or Night of Peace: simple villancas to get to the ninth with a flag, guitar, tiple or piano without complication.
The best to start with are those with short, repetitive and few chords: Bell on Bell, Fish on the River, Tucaina and Night of Peace leading the list. At sweet and piano flute they play comfortable at Do or Sun mayor and at guitar and tiple with two or three chords open.
If you start at midNovember, you get to the 9th from 16 to 24 December with 3 or 4 sure villances. Here's what to choose from your instrument, how to play them and how to organize the practice. We don't have letters: the idea is that you play and that you sing the whole house.
To sum up
- A villish is easy as his melody advances by neighboring notes, his phrases are repeated and accompanied with two or three chords.
- The sweet and piano flute, Do and Sol mayor are the most comfortable tones and guitar and tiple with open chords such as Sol, Ree, Do and La menor.
- If the tone doesn't suit his family's voice, transport it or wear capotre rather than force those who sing.
- Four weeks of short practice since mid-November have been enough to reach the ninth with a small and secure repertoire.
- The villancco looks more with a group: flag or piano melody, guitar or tiple chords and children with maracas or panda.
The easiest carols to get started with
Those are the most widely recommended for a first December with the instrument. The traditional have no known author and the authors have their name.
| Villancico | Origen | That's why it's easy | Eye with... |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell on bell | Traditional Spanish | Shortcuts that are repeated and accompanied with few chords. | The chills call for an acceleration: hold your pulse. |
| Fish in the river | Traditional Spanish | Melody catered with minor tone with few chords. | It's a few to a minor and it's good to listen to that different color. |
| Tutaina | Traditional, infallible in Colombian naves | A short and very repetitive melody, ideal for sweet flute. | Just as everyone sings them so fast, learn them first slow. |
| Let's go, shepherds. Let's go. | Tradicional | Cheer air and symmetric phrases, easy to memorize. | The repeated notes have to sound like pairs. |
| Night of peace | Franz Xaver Gruber (music), 1818 | Slow and with only three chords, perfect for sound work. | It goes in three times: not four. |
| My burrito sabanero | Author's song: Hugo Blanco (Venezuela) | A few chords and a cheerful rhythm that engulfs the children. | It has more rhythmic movement: practice with a metronome. |
| Merry Christmas | José Feliciano | A cycle of four chords that's repeated most of the song. | Ideal for guitar and the melody has fast syllables. |
| Jingle Bels | James Lord Pierpont | The choir goes into five notes followed by the piano. | Stretches are more moved: they start with the choir. |
The nocturnal goings are also a great choice: they repeat their nine nights, so every day you have a new opportunity to play them.
What tone to touch them as your instrument
The same song can be very easy or frustrating depending on how much you touch it. These are the most comfortable for each instrument:
| Instrumento | Comfortable tones | Why? |
|---|---|---|
| Sweet soprane flute | Major and Do Major | They use the first digitations that are learned and if the melody goes down to the serious Do, that requires cover up all holes, pass them to Sun. |
| Guitar | Sun, Ree, Do, The Minor and My Minor | It all goes with open chords, with no cebbling. |
| Tiple | Sun, Ree, Do and La menor | His four orders are tuned as the first four strings of his guitar, so many open positions are similar. |
| Piano or keyboard | Do mayor, Sun mayor and The minor | Few black keys and the left hand can start with a single note per chord. |
What if his voice doesn't suit?
A tone comfortable for your fingers can be very serious or very acute for those who sing. Before forcing the family, change it: by guitar, the capotre lets you preserve the same positions and put up the tone and in other instruments, it's his turn to transport. We explain how to do so in [how to transport a song]](/blog/como-transportar-una-cancion). If children are singing, they stop the melody from falling too low: their voices sound better at an average record.
Flettering with sweet and piano: the melody
Recorder
It's the instrument of December at many schools and the villancas are his natural repertoire so that the melody sounds clear:
- Soft breeze, as if you were warmer with your hands: shilling's almost always an excess of air.
- Cover the holes with his finger's yolk, not with his tiptoe.
- He starts every note with his tongue with a soft syllable as "you," especially with his repeated notes from Tucaina or come shepherds.
- A pencil sign where to breathe: at the end of every sentence, never in half.
If your child's starting with this instrument, at [sweet flute classes]](/clases/flauta-dulce) The breathing, intermining and reading with a repertoire as this are worked.
Piano or keyboard
The Jingle Bels chorus at Do mayor, with his right hand and his face and his face and his face with his face and his face and his face with his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his face and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and their arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and their arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and his arms and their arms and his arms and his arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and their arms and
Night of peace is the following stop: slow, at 3 times and with only 3 chords (at Do mayor: Do, Sol7 and Fa), let you work with sound and legate without a rush.
Guitar and tiple carpinteres: chords and scattering
The guitar and tiple have an accompaniment. Almost all villanci are held with three chords: that of tone (I), its dominant (V or V7) and its sub-dominant (IV). The bigger Sun will be Sun, Re7 and Do.
| Villancico | Suggested Tonality | Base Agreed | Rasgueo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Night of peace | G major | Sun, Re7, Do | In three: low at 1 and matching at 2 and 3. |
| Fish in the river | A minor | Am and E7, plus some passing chord | Binary and marked, with pounding down at every time. |
| Bell on bell | Sun or Re mayor | I, IV and V7 of tone | binary with an accent at first time. |
| Merry Christmas | D major | Sun, La, re, if minor, cycle | Down, down, up, even and cheerful. |
At the tiple, these same chords are reached onto his four orders. If you already scratch corridor, Night of peace will be natural, because they share the 3 times. Before every practice lays with peace: the octave chords are easy and a tiple with an intersecting tiple can be felt throughout the room. Here you have how to tuning the tiple step by step, and if you wish to accompany the ninth with flap, [tiple classes]](/clases/tiple) They help you polish the scrape.
A four-week plan to get to the ninth
Twenty minutes almost every day since mid-November have been reached for three or four villains. A way to organize them:
| Semana | Objective | Consejo |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | To choose three carols and to learn the first complete, slow. | It starts with the shorter: the first accomplishment motivates. |
| 2 | Learn second and review first. | Use [metronome]](/herramientas/metronomo) a few strokes under the final tempo. |
| 3 | Learn the third and rehearse with someone from the house singing. | Playing while other singing's another skill: Don't stop if someone's wrong. |
| 4 | To review all three at a time and to rehearse first and final. | It sets a sign to start with and a clear way to end. |
The day of the ninth, the nerves and noise of the living room make everything look faster and have a secure piece gives peace of mind.
How to play them with family (and common mistakes)
The viler wins with more than one person. A simple collection: the flute or piano with the melody, guitar or tiple with the chords and the smaller with maracas, panda or a drum. If you are looking for percussion tools for them, here are ideas of [children's musical gifts]](/blog/regalos-musicales-para-ninos).
- Learn the most adorned version of the radio rather than the traditional melody, that's easier.
- Test always from the start and never the difficult parts separately.
- Speed up without noticing: accompanying holds his pulse for all.
- Filling the ropes each by their own end, with no common reference.
- To leave practice by December 15th.
Frequently asked questions
What's the easiest villain to play at sweet flute?
Tutaina and Bell with a bell are usually the first: short, repeated and with few notes. Touch them with Sun or Do major and learn them slow before we get up.
What chords do I need to play guitar carols?
With Sun, Do, Re7, The Minor and Mi7 cover a great part of the Christmas repertoire with comfortable tones. If you change between them without stopping the scrape, you can come with the ninth.
Can I learn a villain in a week if I have never been with you?
A simple one, yes: at sweet or piano flute, a short melody as Bell on Bell is attainable with daily practice. accompaniment with guitar or tiple chords usually takes more time, because first we have to gain strength and loose his fingers.
My best-known burrito's a traditional villain?
No. Although it sounds at all novas, it's an author's song, composed by Venezuelan Hugo Blanco at the beginning of the 1970s. The traditional ones, such as Tucaina and Fish at the River, have no known author.