From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
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"Silent Night" part 1
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 4 Favorite Advanced Tunes
"Silent Night" part 1
- Alright, we're going to try to breakdown the classic Christmas carol, Silent Night, for you here now. This should be the music up at least some version of the music. I'm going to give you some variations on it here though which may or may not be written down so you'll have to pay close attention to nab some of these. But we're doing it in the key of C and y'all know the chords. I would suggest you learn the chords first just so you have those really clear. It's pretty straight ahead. ♫ C, C ♫ So four bars of C, then G, then C, then F, and C and back to F and back to C and then G again or G7 and hold the C for three. And G and back to C. Okay so you can, if you want to just follow along on those chords just to get your bearings that's a good starting place. Of course I'm going to play all kinds of different voicings of those chords because I'm attempting to play the melody and the chords at the same time. So what I'm doing is I'm putting the melody in the top voice of the chord. Up…
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