I hope you’re having a good time.
As we’re rushing towards Christmas, here in Vienna the days are not only dull and gray and wet, these are also the darkest days of the year. But only for one more week. After the shortest day next Sunday, after the Winter solstice, the days will be getting longer again.
To make things a bit festive for the holidays, as my little Christmas gift for you, here is a simple but beautiful fingerstyle arrangement of Silent Night.
You can download the transcription in standard notation and tablature, along with the generated audio file, here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wl2ufMx5c16NfZRHKyxW8XVn3YalyFfR/view?usp=sharing
If you’re unfamiliar with fingerstyle arrangements, it’s basically the guitar acting as a little orchestra: playing the melody and the accompaniment at the same time. Usually, the thumb of the picking hand plays the bass notes (all the notes with stems pointing down) while the other fingers play the melody (stems pointing up). At the beginning, practice the bass and melody parts individually, and then put them back together.
Happy practicing!
PS – Short commercial break:
If you’re still looking for a Christmas gift for a fellow guitar player, or even for yourself, please check out my book on how to understand rhythm on guitar, “TCHA-KA TCHA – Understand and Master Rhythm on Guitar through Vocalizing.”
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