PickAlong: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
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- 7 PickAlong: Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus — you are here
Come PickAlong with me! This is one of my favorite Christmas hymns. You may recognize this melody from other hymns, such as "Jesus! What a Friend for Sinners". The melody itself is called "Hyfrydol", a Welsh hymn tune composed by Rowland Prichard in 1830 that translates to "pleasant" or "cheerful".
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Nate Overby ·
Question on the tab — is that a hammer-on or a slide going into the B part? Sounds like a slide to my ear but the tab reads hammer.
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Nate Overby ·
Take the capo off and play it in open G a few times, then put it back. Helped me hear it.
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Katie Clark Support ·
Memorization comes from playing it at a tempo you can think at. If you need the tab, you're playing it faster than you know it.