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How to Fingerpick “Silent Night” on the Ukulele

by Brett McQueen

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In this lesson, we’re going to learn how to fingerpick “Silent Night” on the ukulele. As you probably know, it’s a very beautiful Christmas carol, but it sounds especially great fingerpicked.

If you’re a beginner to fingerpicking, this will be a great song to learn.

I will say that “Silent Night” presents a bit more of a challenge than the previous fingerstyle songs we’ve looked at, however, do know that the challenge is a good one!

For an easier song, you might check out last week’s video lesson where we learned how to fingerpick Good King Wenceslas, or you might check out 3 Easy Songs You Can Fingerpick on the Ukulele.

In this video, I demonstrate “Silent Night” on the ukulele and give you some tips and tricks for how to play it. Be sure to download the sheet music and tabs below the video, so you can follow along!

Download the sheet music and tabs for Silent Night here.

Thanks to PDF Minstrel for sharing the music.

Don’t know how to read music or tabs? Learn how to read music here, and learn how to read tabs here.

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