Silent Night Tablature

Silent Night Tablature

We promised you to publish our new tablatures from our guitar session last week. So today, we want to share the well-known song Silent Night with you. With the given tablatures and audio files, you can start practising the song right away to surprise your families or friends with a christmas guitar duo during christmas holidays.

Silent Night is by the way the most famous christmas song on earth. Originally composed in Austria, it was translated to more than 50 languages.

In our tablature, we arranged two guitars in the simplest way: The background guitar plays decomposed standard chords, and the second guitar adds single notes according to the vocals.

As addition to the tablatures we provide you both guitars as single audio-files so that you can practise the melody for example while listening to the rhythm guitar or vice versa.

The Silent Night Tablature

First of all, I show you the tablatures. Below you will find some additional tips and the audio files for the two guitars separated from each other.

# Silent Night
#     famous christmas song
#     for two acoustic guitars
#     published by duochords.com

# notation:
#     *  = harmonic
#     h  = hammer on
#     p  = pull off
#     /  = slide up
#     \  = slide down
#     () = optional
#     v  = vibrato
#     :  = break / hold

# The tablature consists of
#     - background guitar tablature
#     - tune guitar tablature
 
# This is the order when playing it with two guitars:
#     guitar 1: Background
#     guitar 2: tune

# played soft, silent and slow.


###################### Background ###################

1           G             2           G
#-------------------------|-------------------------|
#--------------3----------|--------------3----------|
#----------0-------0------|----------0-------0------|
#------0---------------0--|------0---------------0--|
#-------------------------|-------------------------|
#--3----------------------|--3----------------------|

3           D7            4           G        
|--------------2----------|-------------------------|
|----------1-------1------|--------------3----------|
|------2---------------2--|----------0-------0------|
|--0----------------------|------0---------------0--|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--3----------------------|

5           C             6           G             
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|--------------1----------|--------------3----------|
|----------0-------0------|----------0-------0------|
|------2---------------2--|------0---------------0--|
|--3----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--3----------------------|

7           C             8           G             
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|--------------1----------|--------------3----------|
|----------0-------0------|----------0-------0------|
|------2---------------2--|------0---------------0--|
|--3----------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--3----------------------|

9           D7            10          G        
|--------------2----------|-------------------------|
|----------1-------1------|--------------3----------|
|------2---------------2--|----------0-------0------|
|--0----------------------|------0---------------0--|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|--3----------------------|

11     G          D7      12    G         G        
|-------------------------|---------------3---------#
|----------------------1--|---------------3---------#
|----------0-------2------|---------0-----0---------#
|------0-------0----------|-----0---------0---------#
|-------------------------|---------------2---------#
|--3----------------------|--3------------3---------#

####################### TUNE ########################

1                         2
#-------0-----------------|-------0-----------------|
#---3-------3-------------|---3-------3-------------|
#---------------4---------|----------------4--------|
#-------------------------|-------------------------|
#-------------------------|-------------------------|
#-------------------------|-------------------------|

3                         4
|---5---5---2-------------|---3---3-----------------|
|-------------------------|-----------3-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

5                         6
|---0---0---3---2---0-----|-------0-----------------|
|-------------------------|---3-------3-------------|
|-------------------------|----------------4--------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

7                         8
|---0---0---3---2---0-----|-------0-----------------|
|-------------------------|---3-------3-------------|
|-------------------------|----------------4--------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

9                         10
|---5---5---8---5---2-----|---3----------7----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|

11                        12
|---3---------------------|-------------------------#
|-------3---0---3---1-----|-------------------------#
|----------------------2--|---0---------------------#
|-------------------------|-------------------------#
|-------------------------|-------------------------#
|-------------------------|-------------------------#

The first guitar

The first guitar is the background guitar. It plays the chords G, D and C in different decompositions. In the tablatures, you find the names of the chords as well as the tablature notation for every single note. This way it is easy to read for beginners too. I recommend to play the chords with the right hand near to the fretboard for a softer and warmer sound.

The second guitar

The second guitar is corresponding to the vocal voice. That means that you can play it instead of singing the song text. Of course it is possible for experienced guitarists to play this second voice and sing a third voice. But I did not want to bother you with my singing, maybe we will find a vocalist for future recordings ;o)

Again, I recommend to play the notes with the right hand near to the fretboard for a softer song.

We hope you enjoy our first christmas tablature. I will write down the final version of “We wish you a merry christmas” tomorrow and post it on duochords too. So stay tuned for our next tablature.