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Silent Night Guitar Tab
- Composer
- Franz Xaver Gruber
- Year
- 1818
- Key
- G
- Time
- 3/4
- Tempo
- 90 BPM
- Difficulty
- Beginner · ★
- First note
- D4
Silent Night on guitar
The full melody, rendered as six-string guitar tab in standard tuning you can read on screen or print for the stand — free, and never truncated.
Lyrics
Bar 1 — Silent night, holy night
Bar 5 — All is calm, all is bright
Bar 9 — Round yon virgin mother and child
Bar 13 — Holy infant, so tender and mild
Bar 17 — Sleep in heavenly peace
Bar 20 — sleep in heavenly peace
Franz Xaver Gruber, 1818 — public domain.
How to practise this on guitar
Silent Night is in G and the tab opens on D4 — find that fret, settle your hand there, and notice how little it has to move: the arrangement is worked out with a fret-hand position economy, so consecutive notes stay under your fingers instead of leaping up and down the neck. Read the numbers, not the note names: string line plus fret is the whole instruction, and an open string costs you nothing.
Play it well under around 90 BPM with a metronome and let each note ring into the next — the tails under the numbers show you how long. When your take review marks a bar, loop just that bar until the fret-hand shift inside it feels automatic, then rejoin the line. Speed is the last thing you add, never the first. By the numbers, this setting runs 46 notes across 23 bars, from G3 up to C5 in 3/4 time.
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