Song 10 - In The Bleak Midwinter

Welcome to this lesson on how to play In The Bleak Midwinter. This song arrangement features five open chords from the key of G major. Once these essential chords are under our fingers we can then play and have access to hundreds more songs.

Key Learning Points

• Chords in the key of G major

• Improving changes between all the chords in the key of G

In The Bleak Midwinter - full play through

For this song, we are strumming once per chord. This suits the style of the music, as it is a slower and more gentle song. Additionally, the single strums help with developing the quicker chord changes. The lines of this song that have the quick changes when resolving to the first chord from Am, D to G, are where our chord changes need to be as comfortable as possible.

Practice this quicker set of changes slowly and try to break down the finger positions. By feeling the chords and actually visualising the movements over the fretboard, this can be very helpful when switching between lots of shapes.