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Silent Night Easy Beginner Ukulele Tutorial with Fingerpicking - Ukulele Sisters

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Channel: Ukulele Sisters · 2018 · Howto & Style

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Watch, like and share this "Silent Night" easy ukulele tutorial for beginners. Jenny shows how to fingerpick melody (solo ukulele) and chords (for accompaniment). Chords, lyrics and tabs are all shown on screen!

Silent Night is one of the songs in our best-selling and award-winning book “21 Easy Ukulele Songs for Christmas”. Visit http://ukulele.io/xmasnow to get your copy. 

You’ll need only three chords for “Silent Night”: C, G7 and F. Because the song is in ¾ time, the strumming pattern follows D-DU-D (D-down, U-up) repetition. Jenny also gives tips on fingerpicking the chords in the video. So that’s two ways you can play the song. Thirdly, Jenny fingerpicks the melody, also known as solo ukulele. You can either sing and go with the simple D-DU-D pattern or practice fingerpicking. In a cool split-screen part in the video, Jenny works with the D-DU-D strum pattern on one screen and does the melody fingerpicking on the other screen.

“Silent Night” is an English translation of the German original entitled “Stille Nacht.” For many years, many have thought that “Silent Night” was composed by one of the most famous classical composers such as Beethoven, Mozart or Haydn. But in 1995, musical researchers have uncovered a handwritten manuscript of “Stille Nacht” estimated to have been made in the 1820s. 

Accordingly, Father Joseph Mohr, wrote the lyrics of this now very famous Christmas carol in 1816 while assigned to a church in Mariapfarr, Austria. Two years later, while working as a priest in a local church in another Austrian village called Oberndorf, he discovered that the church organ has been damaged by flooding. Subsequently, he brought his “Stille Nacht” lyrics to a church organist and composer called Franz Xaver Gruber. So Gruber created the music for “Stille Nacht” to be performed on Christmas Eve on Mohr’s church, Saint Nicholas Church. 


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https://youtu.be/8meDdHAOgU0 - Silent Night Easy Beginner Ukulele Tutorial with Fingerpicking

To learn lots more ukulele chords, try our playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5meDCz5zO-B8UjXstv_2WurNRGJyyWz8. 

To spice up your strumming, try our playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5meDCz5zO-DD1mcV8_t_tuga9MzOJA46

Want to learn to play the theme music from our intro? Check out https://youtu.be/YznUjC8pnUQ. 

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