December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!) (Franki Valli & The Four Seasons) Guitar Lesson with TAB

December, 1963 Oh, What a Night Guitar Lesson + TAB

In this guitar lesson, there are a lot of chords incorporating the keyboard and guitar part in just two bars, with TAB it's luckily not that hard to play!

December, 1963 (Oh What A Night!) | TAB

You may be looking at the chords for the intro/verse and think “Those look like piano chords to me, you can’t play that on the guitar!” And you’d be right, it is piano chords and it would be (almost) impossible.

The guitar only plays a Db Major Pentatonic lick as the piano plays seemingly all the chords in the world.

However, if you play all those chords on just strings 2-4, ignoring the bass notes, it’s pretty easy. Let’s look at why.

Db, Db/F, and Db/Ab (A shape) are the same chords.
Ebm7 (Am shape) and Gb (C shape) are the same chords.
Ab7sus2 and Ab11 (G shapes) are only different by one note.

What you’ll end up with is four chord shapes, although you do need a bass player at hand!

Here’s some TAB explaining a way to combine all these chords, including that guitar lick,

With this TAB idea, the chords, and lyrics for December, 1963 (Oh What A Night!), you should now be able to work out how to play this awesome tune.

December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!) TAB | Related Pages

December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!) | Chord + Lyrics

December 1963 Oh What a Night chords lesson.

Learn how to play December, 1963 (Oh What a Night!) by Franki Valli using chords, lyrics, a chord chart, and the original recording.

| Db Ebm7 Db/F Gb | Gb Db/Ab Ab7sus2 Ab11 Ab7sus2 |
Oh, what a night. Late December back in ’63…

Five similar tunes | Chords + Lyrics

When you can play December 1963's chords, try these five tunes from the songbook.

Franki Valli and the Four Seasons tunes

Franki Valli and the Four Seasons wrote December 1963.

The hugely successful musical Jersey Boys is based on the tunes by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons.

Hits include Sherry, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Silence Is Golden, Working My Way Back, December, 63 (Oh What a Night!), and Can’t Take My Eyes Off You.

Franki Valli and the Four Seasons on the web

Listen to Franki Valli and the Four Seasons on Spotify.

About me | Dan Lundholm

Dan Lundholm wrote this guitar lesson about December 1963's chords.

This guitar lesson by Dan Lundholm featuring TAB covers December 1963 (Oh, What A Night!). Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.

Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.