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You can learn to play the popular Christmas song Silent Night on your guitar even if you don’t master sheet music. You will use guitar tablature that will show you where to put your fingers!

What is guitar tablature!

It is a way of showing you how to play a melody on your guitar without using sheet music notation. Instead you will use digits indicating the strings to play and frets to use. Ordinary guitar tab notation uses a staff with six lines representing the six strings.

In this guitar lesson you will only use digits. I have found that staff notation can be distorted on article sites so the following notation is safer. You will find ordinary guitar tablature notation on my site capotastomusic.

As mentioned the Christmas carol Silent Night is a popular song and you will find Christmas sheet music for this song and other carols all over the internet. It’s harder to find easy guitar tab notation for these type of songs. We will first take a look at the modern English lyrics of the first verse.

Silent night, Holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon virgin Mother and Child

Holy infant so tender and mild

You will now learn the melody on your guitar one line at a time with the help of guitar tablature. Let’s start:

Silent night, Holy night

0/3 2/3 0/3 2/4 0/3 2/3 0/3 2/4

0/3 means that you play the third string without pressing down a fret. 2/3 tells you to press down the second fret on the third string. In other words, the digit before the slash indicates the fret to press down and the one to the right of the slash tells you which string to play.

Let’s continue with your guitar tablature melody:

All is calm, all is bright

3/2 3/2 0/2 1/2 1/2 0/3

Which left hand fingers should you use?

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Barre chords may be physically difficult to master for the beginner, but conceptually they’re very easy to understand. A barre chord is like a “human
capo,” in that it allows you to play familiar basic chords all over the neck of your guitar to change keys and transpose music by using only a few forms.Unlike a capo (a mechanical device that wraps around the neck at a particular fret), a barre chord can move quickly and in time with the music.

Because barre chords contain no open strings, you can move them around the neck, allowing you to play any chord by using just one fingering form. The letter names of the chord change (from A to B to C, and so on), but the fingering and the quality stays exactly the same. Because all the strings in a barre chord are fretted, you have more control over the sustain (or ringing out) of the strings, which is why barre chords sound less folky or cowboy-like than open-position chords.

Barre chords are harder to play than open-position chords  and even harder on an acoustic than an electric guitar. But luckily playing these chords gets easier quickly, and before you know it, you can’t even distinguish between a barre chord and an open-position chord. You simply chose the right chord for the job, and if it happens to be a barre chord and not an open-position chord, you just play it and don’t even think about the agony you endured while learning it.