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In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play the classic Christmas melody, Silent Night. You’ll learn this in the solo guitar style (no accompaniment) and will play it with a pick (although you could play this fingerstyle if you were more comfortable). This is an easy arrangement and can be played by anyone from beginner to advanced on either electric or acoustic guitar.
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Beautiful Brian……I will have a tune for that special night…..
Be well,
Roberto
too bad I cant get it to tab all I get is a page tab for driving blues in G that’s all I can get to tab no matter what
Very Nice. I’m looking forward to learning this this weekend. Love those single instrument, no accompaniment songs!
Beautiful, thanks Brian.
Nice Brian, thanks..
Indeed a beautiful lesson. i wil be doing my best. Green Sleeves would be a wonderful follow through for the next special occasion Thanks
Brain,
Perfect!
Gene
Great lesson Brian…. Just in time to learn before Christmas with the family
Great work, mate!
I really like the solo electric stuff. It seems like for years, someone would say “so you play guitar….show me something”, and I never know what to play. This stuff solves all those times. Thanks for that! Cant wait to get this down on the weekend.
A touch of Chet Atkins Brian. A really clever rendition, which I’m certain will impress my family at Christmas. Many thanks.
Great stuff! This was the first thing I checked out (seasonal and all) after subscribing, and noticed there’s a slight error in the second half of the second bar. I assume the tab is just meant to be a rough guide? 🙂
very nice playing some blues some gospel som country feeling…really cool and simple in a way
Hey Brian
Thanks for the great lesson. I know how I am spending my week end.
Best wishes.
Brian, you turned a timely holiday piece into a great lessson on chord voicings and finding the melody around chords. Love the countrified embellishments. I find new things to add to my bag of tricks every week. Great lesson as usual.
John
Another great lesson
A truly beautiful rendition of this carol, Brian. I am still persevering with pieces from some of your previous lessons, but as soon as I listened to this week’s,, I felt I just had to put the other stuff to one side, pick up my guitar, and try to master this, firstly on my acoustic , before plugging in my Strat . Thanks Brian a really great idea for a lesson at this time of year. Best wishes.
Nice.. just my speed..nice and slow…. now get my fingers to follow along so I can play for the family or it will be a silent night.. 🙂
Thanks
Dan
Love it Brian…..Thank you for including this classic Christmas song. Great instruction!
Wow. Great Version of that song. That Soundslice thing is very helpful. Thanks
Hi Brian, I finished this a couple hours after I started. Really awesome, thanks! Just wondering if you ever considered a version of Mr. Grinch? Maybe Brian Setzer style?
Great lesson ?
Great lesson, so pleasant to follow along, thanks for a wonderful song
Fantastic, love the simplicity and the song. It’s watch and learn, enjoyed the lesson.
I caught the Floyd Cramer licks and it bought back old memories. Love the style of this piece!
Another great piece of music, Brian, as they have been throughout the year. God Bless, and an excellent Xmas to you and your family. Cheers Phil.
Bravo!!
HI, love the arrangement. Can’t find the tab. It would be useful for practicing off line
Beautiful, love the trelicopter pedal 🙂
Well played, Brian (as always). Very cool arrangement. I’ll get this nailed in a week and then add some extra bits and pieces thereafter. Thanks for the hard word you put in these lessons. Merry Christmas and Happy 2016!
Very nice. Like the tasteful chord arrangemnet and walks from chord to chord.
Love this. Started to learn it and after a while 4 of my kids came to see what I was playing and sang along. Wonderful.
Very nice rendition Brian. That made my Christmas . Ill be practicing this song this season. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I learned how to use the tab slow down on the link to large screen. Very cool. I tell people about activemelody all the time. Thanks for such wonderfull lessons.
David
I live here in Austria where the song ‘Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht’ (so the original title) was composed by schoolmaster and organist Franz Xaver Gruber and Father Joseph Mohr for Christmas Eve in 1818. Moreover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night
Congrats to Brian for his interpretation.
Gerhard
Wow… Brian. You have taken one of my favorite songs ever and given it an arrangement that, with a little work, I might be able to learn. Thanks for a terrific website and all the great material
Really enjoyed learning this, I started using the electric but moved onto the accoustic with a little reverb and a tiny touch of tremolo and the sound of those chords are awesome.
Brilliant version and one I will play regularly.
Many Thanks 🙂
Thank you Brian! Cool arrangement, Moon River would be next!
Wonderful version of silent night Brian! This sounds amazing on acoustic as well. Can’t wait to play it for the family!
Very peaceful and warm electric guitar ! I think I’ll try this tonight! Merry Xmas!
Hi Brian, I really do enjoy listening to you, I have learned so much and I do appreciate what you do. Would you work up a Christmas song for us? I have been wanting to play O Holy Night so whatever you can come up with would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and keep up the great work. Mike M
Really like this arrangement. Are you planning on adding a new song for this year?
Love this rendition. Have been working on it for over a week now and am getting it all done but still in slow mode. Just been playing little more than a year now and have learned so much from you. Love your finger by finger instructions. Still don’t understand all the scales, I just follow your instructions and play. Would love to learn Oh Holy Night….hint..hint. Thank you for your dedication to all of us. Merry Christmas Brian!!
Truly one of the most beautiful and appreciated lessons, Brian, BUT—- could you please re-do it without the cheesy pedal effects? A pure tone with a tiny bit of reverb would sound so much better—–
Awesome!
Amazing
Brian,
Another great bluesy version of a Christmas carol. One quick question, in the tabs, for the A chord then you hammer on, you have written 4 fret in the 4th string, but when you play it and talk about it, its 4th fret 3rd string. I hope Ive got that right