Silent Night | Easy Ukulele Tutorial & Cover (#110)

Learn to play Silent Night on the ukulele.

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SONGBOOK

My songbook includes the chords, lyrics, and strum patterns for every song that I teach on my channel, each displayed on a single page. Get it here: https://fourchordsimple.com/songbook/

CHORDS

In all of my hundreds of tutorial videos, I stick to just four basic chords:

C Am F G
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I teach you these four chords in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sAvAULVoDU

I teach you how to quickly transition between these chords in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyVqUwm5G_A

My songbook contains hundreds of songs based on just these same four simple chords. Get it here: https://fourchordsimple.com/songbook/

STRUMMING PATTERNS

In an effort to keep things simple and avoid overwhelming beginners, I don’t put the strumming patterns in my videos. If you are just getting started, I’d recommend sticking with a simple downstrum once per chord.

After learning a few songs, having some fun, and gaining confidence, feel free to expand from there, but there’s no need to go overboard. To this day, I stick with just three simple strum patterns that create enough variety to avoid sounding monotonous:

1. Downstrum Strum Pattern (↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ). I use this strum pattern for the mellower parts of songs. It can be done at a low-intensity with one strum per chord/measure (↓ ), at a medium-intensity with two strums per measure (↓ ↓ ), or at a high-intensity with four strums per measure (↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ).

2. Upstrum Strum Pattern ( ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑). I use this strum pattern for happy, carefree songs that remind me of reggae like any song from Four Chord Simple!.

3. Upbeat Strum Pattern (↓ ↓↑ ↑↓↑). I use this strum pattern during the high-energy parts of a song. If a chord lasts for more than one measure, I’ll carry out the ↑↓↑ part of the strum pattern until I switch to the next chord (↓ ↓↑ ↑↓↑ ↑↓↑ ↑↓↑...). If a chord only lasts for half a measure, I’ll cut the strum pattern in half (↓ ↓↑). And if a chord lasts for a single measure, I will play it in the standard fashion (↓ ↓↑ ↑↓↑).

I really do stick to just these three strumming patterns in my hundreds of tutorial videos. I teach and demonstrate each strumming pattern in-depth in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ_QUrs8qas

Please feel free to use whatever strum patterns you’d like as you learn the songs on my channel, but if you are interested in replicating the strumming patterns I use, I’ve carefully written them out for each song with the lyrics and chords in my songbook. Get it here: https://fourchordsimple.com/songbook/

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MY UKULELES

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A tenor ukulele is just a bigger version of a soprano ukulele, which makes it better for performing since it projects sound farther. It is great for players with big hands or players who want to get into fingerpicking.

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