This book contains beautiful arrangments for the intermediate to advanced guitar player. Players who are not yet at an intermediate level of playing may find the arrangments frustrating. Several of the songs are in an alternate tuning. Even the simplist arrangement involves quite a bit of skill. The reward for the guitarist's work is a beautiful arrangment with depth. This book comes with a CD which allows the guitarist to hear how the arrangements should sound.

Wow........ Yes, now this is just great. You know it's always worth buying a book if 1 song is great... There are a couple of Great Arrangements from Mark Hanson in this book. You better be ready though if you start the 4 more challenging songs from this book because they are very difficult for most people. Mark Hanson has some difficult ways of playing some of the chords. I even had to rearranged some minor things to make them more playable for me. I am a Acoustic Fingerstyle Player for a couple of years now, performing almost every week but these songs need a Lot of Attention and Devotion in order to be able to play them before an audience. Take a lot of time to let the songs "Sink In" to your body.

This is my second Mark Hanson fingerstyle book (the other is his Beyond Basics book.) The Christmas songs in this one are very well chosen, including absolutely stunning arrangements of Go Tell It On The Mountain and In Dulci Jubilo. It's worth the price for the CD that accompanies the book, just to hear Hanson playing!

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is that it's misleading to call four of these songs "easy." These so-called "easy" songs are definitely not what most people would think of as easy! Others have made similar comments about the book being for intermediate to advanced players, and I completely agree. But if you have a few years playing experience and are at least an "advanced beginner" with respect to fingerstyle playing, then I highly recommend this collection of great songs.

I've bought so many books for solo guitar and Mark Hanson's outshine anyone else. His arrangements are amazing, and very playable, even for a self-taught guitarist like me who only reads tablature. I get many compliments on my playing now, and it's all thanks to Mark Hanson's beautiful arrangements both in this book and in his "Great American Tablature Song Book", which has such a great variety of music (and is available with others on his website, if not through Amazon). Highly recommended.

Between the 1-note "Easy-TAB" books and full-blown "As Recorded" tabs, there's been a void of playable tabs for the intermediate player. Mark Hanson has filled that gap, and is the top guy out there today producing interesting arrangements for the intermediate guitar player.

If you're an absolute beginner, you can safely pass this one up, but if you have a year or two of experience under your belt, this is a great set of solos for the Christmas season. Be sure to pick it up a few months early, though, because these are NOT easy. You'll have to work at them to get them sounding nice.

Mark hasn't forgotten those of you out there with more skills, either. There are a total of 12 arrangements here - 4 easy, 4 intermediate, and 4 advanced. By the time you get to the last couple of tunes, you have some serious show-off stuff going on - way over my head, but something the advanced player can dig into, and the intermediate player can aspire to.

Highly recommended for both intermediate and advanced players.