“O Holy Night” is one of my favorite Christmas songs of all time. Today, I want you to play it with me.

In the video, I’ll teach you the chords and the strumming pattern. Then I’ll hold down the rhythm and sing while you play along.

This song is perfect for practicing beginner chord changes. And the best part? You can play it with a really easy strumming pattern. So if you’re new to ukulele, or you just love this song, you can play it with me today.

O Holy Night ukulele chords

“O Holy Night” has eight chords. But don’t worry. None of them are barre chords, and you can learn them all with a little practice.

Here are the chords you’ll need:

1. C
2. Am
3. G7
4. Em
5. B7
6. G
7. Dm
8. F

In the video, I show you how to play each one. Take your time with any that are new to you.

O Holy Night ukulele strumming pattern

Finding a strumming pattern is easy once you know the count of a song.

“O Holy Night” is counted in six:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…

The best place to start is with down strums. Strum down on every count. Count out loud as you go.

That works, but it can feel a little stiff. So let’s add some groove. Strum your down strums a little softer, and strum beat 4 a little louder:

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6…

Accenting beat 4 is a simple way to make this song feel really good.

Play along with me

Now it’s time to play the whole song together. Watch the video to play along. I’ll hold down the rhythm and sing out the melody while you strum along.

Here’s all you need to do:

• Keep that simple down-strum pattern going.
• Change chords when I do.
• Count out loud while I sing. It helps you feel and hear when the chords change.

The full notation is presented in the video.

You’ll also find the full chart presented in the 20 Beginner-Friendly Christmas Songs Strummed and 20 Beginner-Friendly Christmas Songs Fingerpicked play-along songbooks, which are now available as a buy one get one free for this month only.

When you’re done playing along with me, leave a comment down below and let me know how it went. How were those chord changes? And would you like more play-along songs like this?

Get my Christmas songbooks: buy one, get one free

“O Holy Night” is in both of my digital play-along songbooks:

• 20 Beginner-Friendly Christmas Songs Strummed
• 20 Beginner-Friendly Christmas Songs Fingerpicked

In these songbooks, I give you the exact strumming and fingerpicking patterns for every song. You also get audio files of me counting and singing, so you can play along with me.

Right now, when you buy one songbook, you get the other one free.

Get the buy one, get one free deal here

I hope you enjoy playing “O Holy Night” this Christmas. Merry Christmas and happy strumming!

Brett