Christmas Time Is Here (Solo Jazz Guitar)

[@jasonwerkema]

Hey Everyone! I finally have my arrangement of "Christmas Time is Here" transcribed in PDF! You can contact me through my website and I'll respond back ASAP with the music/TAB. Thank you! Jason

[@a.j1031]

My God! Goosebumps!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting!

[@justinb6201]

Awesome love those harmonics very impressive and unique

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for your kind words, Justin! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Jason

[@tovarisch2788]

I love what the harmonics add to this. Excellent.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and for your comment! All the best! Jason

[@RayC234]

Wow that Guitar is just absolutely beautiful.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks Ray! Appreciate your comment! Merry Christmas to you! Jason

[@RayC234]

@@jasonwerkema You're quite welcome, and Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@davidpsimon4257]

Smooth like butter.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and for your kind comment, David! All the best to you! Jason

[@tipp55]

That was sheer magic. Beautiful rendition.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for this very kind comment! I love this tune and I'm glad you enjoyed my version! All the best to you! Jason

[@bcorcoran56]

Wow!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Bill! Jason

[@johnstoner666]

Awesome

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for your kind comment! Merry Christmas! Jason

[@jodyguilbeaux8225]

wow, your a technician on those harmonics, beautiful song and a fantastic player. if this does not put you in the mood for christmas, nothing will .

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your generous compliments, Jody! All the best to you and your family! Jason

[@j_priimo]

Wow wow wow simply amazing 🫶🏾

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you, Jesus! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@Ryharmony]

Beautifulful.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for your kind comment! Merry Christmas!

[@MaltiPoo23]

Beautiful.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Dan! All the best to you!

[@TimBoulette]

Gorgeous.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your kind comment, Tim! Merry Christmas to you! Jason

[@drdonvulcan8353]

Just a beautiful cover with wonderfull harmonics and passing notes to add even more color leading into the many harmonic overtones throughout the arrangement, just heavenly.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Don! Greatly appreciated! Happy New Year to you! Jason

[@chrisstanford3652]

Absolutely wonderful🤗🤗🎄🎸🌹

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Chris! All the best to you! Jason

[@arthurwilliamloftus3800]

Absolutely outstanding.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much, Arthur! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Jason

[@drdonvulcan8353]

The camera was right on the full neck to facilitate a great view of the fingering. If not exactly clear enough, let your ear figure out the rest. Never underestimate the power of the ear when choosing just the right sound or to make it your own. Again just a great rendition to the charley brown christmas classic!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks again, Don! Glad you enjoyed my arrangement and my amateur camera work LOL! Ear training is so important for sure! Helps me in harmonizing familiar melodies in new ways! Jason

[@carlosantequera5971]

Stunning, beautiful

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your kind comments, Carlos!

[@AlHuerta]

Beautiful 🎶

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! Merry Christmas to you!

[@jaumemartinezguitarrista]

Beautiful!🙂

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you so much for your kind words! All the best to you!

[@douglasdennis797]

That is a right-hand harmonic heavy arrangement, my friend.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Merry Christmas to you!

[@waitaminute7257]

Excellent! Beautiful!!!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you so much! Greatly appreciated! Jason

[@johnathancurley1664]

Wow. Just amazing. Very well played. Beautiful guitar as well.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for your very kind comment, Jonathan! Greatly appreciated! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Jason

[@amywerner4760]

So beautiful...thank you for your gift of music!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and for your kind words, Amy! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Please tell Kyle hi for me! Jason

[@MrJeffery65]

Woow.. Thanks Jason, Merry Christmas for you and fam. God Bless🙏🙏👍

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for your kind words, Jeffery! Greatly appreciated! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well! Jason

[@michaeldoxey1240]

Very nice, well done!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Michael! All the best to you! Jason

[@flangeres1752]

Fantastic playing and arrangement Jason!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Charles! All the best to you!

[@MikeOria]

gorgeous - Bravo!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your kind words, Mike! Merry Christmas to you and your family! Jason

[@freddymclain]

BEAUTIFUL!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and for your comment, Freddy! All the best to you! Jason

[@nhatphuc5997]

This is so inspiring! I should have find this channel earlier. So amazing

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you so much for your kind words and for watching my videos! All the best to you! Jason

[@luzentime]

I am an aspiring jazz guitarist and this is one of the standards I love. You do an amazing job with this technically as well as in capturing the emotional essence of the song. Just love it, very inspirational, just what jazz is all about!

[@jasonwerkema]

Aww! Thanks so much for this super generous comment! I'm thrilled that you are enjoying my version of this amazing song! It was fun to arrange and record! Now I just need to write it out for others to play :) All the best to you! Jason

[@luzentime]

@@jasonwerkema Yes, I have a fingerstyle version of my own but it pales in comparison, would love to see/analyze your version in depth to learn from it!

[@jasonwerkema]

@@luzentime I'll see what I can do when I get some time. I serve as a dean and play out a few times/week so finding the time is my issue :) All the best! Jason

[@jasonwerkema]

@@luzentime I just finished the transcription of my arrangement of "Christmas Time is Here." Please contact me through my website and I'll respond back ASAP with the music/TAB. Thanks again! Jason

[@thanhheu4129]

Lovely arrangement and playing. Thank you for your effort :D

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for your very kind comment! All the best to you! Jason

[@georgegamentzy1816]

👍yeah!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your kind comment, George!

[@lindaholton7690]

Lovely! Thanks for sharing.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Merry Christmas to you, Linda!

[@pamsherstad8799]

Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting! Merry Christmas to you! Jason

[@shinegirlFL02]

So beautifully performed! Thank you for sharing!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and for your kind comment, Cynthia! God Bless and Merry Christmas! Jason

[@paulsweet690]

Thanks so much for sharing, and a very merry Christmas to you and your family!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks Paul! I appreciate you watching and commenting! Merry Christmas! Jason

[@josephtaylor4070]

Beautiful tone, love those harmonics starting around 0:13

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Joe! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

[@MitchMcnalley]

Excellent 😊😊

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your kind words, Mitch! All the best to you! Jason

[@lasunyabrown7476]

Nice Job. Merry Christmas!!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for watching and commenting, Lasunya! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well! Jason

[@sopranocooks]

Really quite stunning, Jason. Bravo!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for the very kind comments! All the best! Jason

[@bennemecek7784]

Sounds great Doc!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Ben! Merry Christmas to you!

[@tipp55]

Jason, I've come back to listen to this piece again...even though Christmas is over. I do hope you might get round to transcribe it at some stage. It's haunting me!

[@jasonwerkema]

I just finished the transcription of my arrangement of "Christmas Time is Here." Please contact me through my website and I'll respond back ASAP with the music/TAB. Thanks again! Jason

[@tipp55]

@@jasonwerkema Hi Jason! Thank you very much for getting back to me with that update. I shall look forward to that release. I'm nursing a little thumb tendonitis but hopefully will be able to tackle 'Christmas Time' soon! :-) Best wishes. John (Ireland)

[@jasonwerkema]

@@tipp55 Hi John! Thank you for your kind note! I'm sorry to hear you have some tendonitis with your thumb. Frustrating I'm sure. Feel free to contact me through my website and I'll email you the chart for free! I'd love to visit Ireland some day! :) Take care!

[@gregwilt1339]

Merry Christmas my friend.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks Greg! Merry Christmas to you as well! Fun memories as kids 👍

[@evanbingham8]

Awesome as usual!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for the encouragement, Evan! Merry Christmas to you!

[@Shawn_Zimmerman]

Great arrangement! As a musician myself (and halfway through receiving my Bachelor's in Music Performance), I can appreciate this piece even more understanding how hard it is to do arpeggio artificial harmonics at that speed as clean as you did them. Great job! Is there any way you would happen to have the sheet music for this arrangement? I would love to perform it this holiday season for my University's 'Holiday Concert'.

[@jasonwerkema]

Hey Shawn! Thanks for your kind words and for your interest in my arrangement. Unfortunately, I don't have the sheet music available. I guess transcribing at .5 speed might be your best option as of now. My apologies. I'm truly honored that you want to play this piece at your University's Holiday Concert! Thanks again and all the best to you! Jason

[@manuelaljibesrosas664]

@@jasonwerkema My man just put it on your website and let us buy it, I'm sure there are many guitarists like Shawn and I that would gladly pay you to get the sheets 🙏

[@manuelaljibesrosas664]

@@jasonwerkema Btw I noticed that you also play the classical guitar; do you feel confident that you'd get this same consistency with the harmonics in that instrument? I ask because I thought I had them nailed down but this is just on another level, is it maybe that they're easier on this type of guitar? In any case, amazing playing 👏👏👏

[@jasonwerkema]

@@manuelaljibesrosas664 Hey Manuel! Thanks so much for watching and commenting! Perhaps I will sit down some night and write this out and make it available on my website? Your encouragement is greatly appreciated! Thanks again and I trust you had a Merry Christmas! Jason

[@jasonwerkema]

@@manuelaljibesrosas664 Thanks again for your kind words to me! I love playing fingerstyle classical and fingerstyle jazz guitar. I find that harmonics sound slightly more clear on an electric guitar due to the pickups and amplification. However, I feel confident on my classical with getting clear harmonics as well. Well-filed fingernails on the right hand make these sound louder as well. Clean new strings and precision placement with your plucking hand fingers/thumb help as well with sounding artificial harmonics. Hope that helps! All the best! Jason

[@manuknobs8710]

sweet arrangement, and playing. Thanks for sharing, merry christmass!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for watching and commenting, Manu Felix! All the best to you! Jason

[@jonathanmarshallguitars]

Sounds great Jason!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for the kind comment, Jon! All the best! Jason

[@ethansi9234]

to good to be true

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting, Ethan! All the best to you! Jason

[@JudahGuerra]

Amazing, Doc!

[@JudahGuerra]

Second to last chord is wicked.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Judah! Greatly appreciated! Jason

[@jasonwerkema]

@@JudahGuerra Good ears! Yeah, I wanted the last verse and 2nd to last chord to capture the contrast of Christ coming to the earth in humility to give himself for the world (minor reharmonization and minor-major 9th chord) so that through him we could share in his glory in heaven (major 13th chord at end). Thanks again for watching!

[@JudahGuerra]

It really did come out nicely. This song just became all the more special to me now!

[@jasonwerkema]

@@JudahGuerra Thanks Judah! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

[@marcbeaudin761]

Great arrangement ! Shades of Lenny Breau...

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for your encouraging comments, Marc! All the best to you!

[@bole4556]

Best yet! Is that the Groove Master Heritage and if so, is that the humbucker that comes with it or was that made for you? Thanks!

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much, Bo Le! Greatly appreciated! Yes, this is a Heritage Groovemaster and the humbucker is a Seymour Duncan '59. Super clean and vibrate! One of the best jazz guitars I've played in terms of intonation, playability, harmonics, clarity, sustain, balance, user adjustments, etc. They aren't making these anymore, but I was recently at the factory talking with the Pete Farmer who made this guitar and they are producing some amazing guitars with excellent quality control. All the best! Jason

[@rguado]

Just beautiful! Who is this?

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for your kind comment, Ronald! Greatly appreciated! Merry Christmas to you!

[@rafaelrestrepo9366]

Lovely cover. Any possibility of sheet music for this?

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much, Rafael! Unfortunately, I have not taking the time to transcribe my own arrangement. There are others interested, so I am wanting to, but time is pretty limited for me at this point in my life. Merry Christmas to you and your family! Jason

[@jasonwerkema]

I just finished the transcription of my arrangement of "Christmas Time is Here." Please contact me through my website and I'll respond back ASAP with the music/TAB. Thanks again! Jason

[@riccardobertilotti884]

MR. Werkema , thanks for your interpretation! Beautiful execution and Top tone

[@jasonwerkema]

Thank you for watching and commenting, Riccardo! All the best to you and your family! Jason

[@DeanHarrisMusic]

Awesome arrangement and sound. What are you using to get tone?

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and commenting! I'm using a heritage groovemaster guitar run through a quilter mini reverb into logic pro. Merry Christmas!

[@howardwilson1912]

Gorgeous! Where DO you find the time?

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks so much for watching and commenting, Howard! Great to hear from you! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

[@jmtab]

Beautiful playing and arrangement. I like artificial harmonics, to a point. Can get gimmicky if over used. Tommy Emmanuel is also a master at them but uses them sparingly in most songs.

[@jasonwerkema]

Thanks for watching and for your kind words! Good thoughts to consider! All the best to you -Jason