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In The Bleak Midwinter – Classical Guitar Tab and Video

Watch a video of me playing the piece In The Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst and download the free PDF of the sheet music.

I actually wasn’t aware this is a Christmas song until a student mentioned their friend was learning it for a school piece. I think I did recognise it when I started to play it, but now I definitely will remember the tune (even if I did play a couple of the melody rhythms wrong, looking back at the music!).

I haven’t been playing classical guitar for very long at all. I picked up this guitar second hand from my local music shop and I really enjoyed playing it in the shop without it really registering with me that it’s a proper classical guitar… it just felt nice and I connected with it so I bought it. So this performance is not going to be a lesson in how to play classical guitar, but I hope it will encourage you to go and learn the tab or sheet music for yourself, because it’s not too hard, even for someone that hasn’t learned much classical guitar.

PDF Sheet Music for In The Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst

Guitar Drums and Bass performance of ‘Indecisive’ – Rockschool Grade 3 Piece

Many of my students have learned this piece and passed their exams. It’s an enjoyable piece to play with lots of energy and it’s deceptively hard to perform the whole song without mistakes.

The videos were recorded using a phone camera and a Zoom HD1 microphone.

I think these performances would get a fairly good mark out of 20 in an exam. Maybe 19 out of 20 each. I think the guitar performance was probably the strongest out of the 3, as there were small misakes in the others. But overall, I hope this is a good demo of the song and a good chance for students to see how the songs are played by each instrument, and give examples of the type of solos you could play in the song.

Video Lessons for 50 Chords Exercises Book – Guitar and Ukulele

After years of avoiding it, I have started making youtube videos for my lessons. I have focused on providing useful sheets, as I felt there was a gap in the market. Now the lesson sheets side of things is established, I have decided to add the extra layer of tuition with videos. You can either purchase the book or use the video lessons to play along for free.

50 Ukulele Chord Exercises Playlist: