Silent Night - Fingerstyle Blues Guitar - With Free Tab
In this video, I want to share with you my fingerstyle guitar version of the classic Xmas carol Silent Night. The music was written in 1818 by Franz Gruber to lyrics written by Joseph Mohr. Since then it has been popular every Xmas and you will undoubtably hear it played many times this festive season. The version I have given you in this video is in the key of D and is played on a guitar in Open D tuning. The music is in 3/4 time and it utilises an offset Travis picking pattern to compensate for the 3/4 time signature. I will discuss this below. I have tried to add a more laid back blues feel to the music. The song basically is just one main section repeated throughout. In my version I have a 4 bar intro section, then the main section which runs for 23 bars. In my verison, the last few bars serve as an outro but you can just loop back to bar 5 and repeat as necessary. Below are some tips to help you play this piece, and links to download the tab. Silent Night Downloadable Ta...