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Details on my Easy Finger-Style version of Silent Night can be found here. Details on my Advanced Finger-Style version of Silent Night can be found here. Details on my Silent Night - Harmonized Melody Lesson (with the virtual fretboard) can be found here. Silent Night - Accompaniment Difficulty Rating: Beginner Lesson by: Kirk Lorange If you are having trouble viewing the embedded video above, please click here In this case, I've kept a simple and steady pattern: I pick the root of each chord on the first beat of the bar (it's in 3/4 time, so there are three beats per bar) and strum the next two with light downstrokes. It's a pretty standard strum pattern for 3/4. I've indicated the roots in the tab as orange dots in the chord diagrams (it's a little hard to see, sorry) and there are couple of exceptions toward the end. In bar 20 I play a C# bass note to the Em chord (it's written as such) and in bar 21 I play a D note as bass note to the G chord. Why? Because it sounds better, those bass notes between bars 17 and 21 make a nice little melody line that keeps everything moving in the right direction. For those 'smaller' chords, those that are only 4 or 5 strings wide, you need to avoid strumming the strings marked 'x' in the chord diagrams. It will sound ugly if you don't. Watch how I change chords: it's not one full shape to another, it's more of a progressive finger by finger movement. Because the pattern involves the root note being picked on the first beat, I make sure that finger is in place first; while I'm picking that note, the other fingers are falling into place on the fretboard. It still all happens in the blink of an eye, but it's a little easier than getting every finger in place at the same instant. This becomes automatic after a while, so don't despair if you're having trouble. The strum: I pick the root, which is a small positive movement of the hand, then I widen the movement slightly for the strums, which are light and airy. I rarely use a flat pick, so I'm no expert either, but like everything else, strumming is all a matter of practice. I've posted links to the midi files below Midi full speed | Midi half speed Play the chords as indicated in the diagrams above the tab. The tab is the melody line that you hear in the midi.
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