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In The Bleak Midwinter - fingerpicking solo arrangement (Patreon)

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2025-12-19 16:23:13
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2025-12-21 09:18:01
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It's Christmas Special time, and this year I've gone for a pretty fingerstyle rendition of a festive classic. Hope some of you will enjoy getting this one together. Tab can be found below.

Since questions for my prospective Q&A session were pretty thin on the ground, I think I'm going to leave that now until the New Year. Which means this will be the final video of 2025. Thanks so much to everyone on here for the fantastic support. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, see you in 2026.

-Adrian

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In The Bleak Midwinter - Christmas Special - Beautiful fingerpicking arrangement

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Comments

Georgina Hill

Hi Adrian, thanks for all the work you put into the videos and pdfs and choosing such a variety of projects. I’m always lagging behind and mostly pick the ones I think I might be able to manage. But hopefully I will eventually get to some of the harder ones 😁 Have a great Christmas and see you in the New Year 🎄

Ian Willars

Hi Adrian, thanks for this and all of your wonderful lessons/videos this year. I guess I'll be buying an acoustic guitar in the new year sales! Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and Happy new year.

Michael Richard Carter

What a lovely gentle present thank you Adrian and merry Christmas to you

Jas

Please don't say the words michael and buble in your videos again, Adrian. Thanks and have a wonderful Xmas

Bryan S

Excellent choice! I've been looking at the Laura Snowden arrangement this week, but wanted to add some more variations so this is a great help. Merry Christmas!

Sean O'Hara

I enjoy the Bert Jansch vocal rendition of this one. I suspect you do as well!

Maximilian

I recently purchased Bert Transcribed - The Bert Jansch Songbook, just to learn his version of in the bleak midwinter. I will definitely learn this one too, nice one! Merry Christmas

steve foster

Thanks Adrian.Have a good Christmas.I still regard your lessons as the best by some distance.Top man.

Anthony DeRosa

Merry Christmas Adrian! Thank you so much. You are the best. Wishing you and yours the best.

Michael Richard Carter

I m sorry to ask you this but could you ever do a lesson that throws more light on chords to use to support a melody for example the melody here over the f chord is 2326 and so I would have guessed dm and that’s exactly why I can’t ever do anything! So can you suggest a course for me?

Jim Moore

Happy Peaceful Holidays

Jeff Lynch

Thank you, Adrian. I'm a recent addition to your online family. Wishing you and yours a blessed and peaceful Christmas.

Anthony Clemmons

Beautiful tune and playing. Thank you, Adrian. Merry Christmas and a Happy 2026 to you and yours!

Steve Brodie

My favourite carol. 😃 Thanks for this Adrian. Merry Christmas!

IanNick

Nice choice Adrian. This has been a favourite since I first heard Bert Jansch’s version.

Anthony Stenson

Nice video Adrian. Bit tricky for me but I'll keep plugging away. By the way, on a pedantic note, surely it's Christmas 2025 not 2026? Anyway, whatever the year, have a good one.

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Anthony. Oops, yes I've fixed that now - I've been planning New Year videos this week so my head was already in 2026!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, this is a huge subject so I could easily devote a video or an entire course to it! I've touched on it in my videos but not really addressed in anywhere in a lot of detail. One thing to bear in mind is that the notes can be seen in relation to the key and also in relation to the harmony at any given moment. So the melody is indeed 2326 in terms of the C major scale. But those notes are 6763 in relation to the F root. And there are multiple way to harmonise a melody. Dm would actually work just as well as F, and the chords are actually very similar. I'll try and discuss this in a bit more detail in a future video.

anyonecanplayguitar

The Bert Transcribed book is incredible! Done with such love and attention to detail, I often get my copy out and play through a song or two. Merry Christmas to you!

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Bryan! I've not heard the Laura Snowden version, I must take a listen.

anyonecanplayguitar

Haha doesn't everyone like a bit of Bublé at Christmas time? Merry Christmas Jas!

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Ian, Merry Christmas to you! Yes get an acoustic, you won't regret it!

El Scotto

Lovely tune. It always amuses me that half the planet doesn't realise the other half is experiencing summer at Christmas and celebrating the holiday season with warm weather at the beach! Merry Christmas to you all!

Ian Willars

It's next on the list! This arrangement sounds nice with my epi casino with loads of reverb though 👍

David

I always look forward to your Christmas tune. Thank you and Merry Christmas!

NB

Just lovely Adrian - thanks so much

Angus Kingston

Merry Christmas and thanks for another inspiring year. Here’s to 2026

Mahesh Vaswani

Hi Adrian many thanks for the good stuff you have put out this . Wishing you all the best for Christmas & New Year. Looking forward to learning more in 2026.

Aldo Ferrari

Thank you for all you do, Merry Christmas to you and yours!

albergo

Very effective lesson for those of us who spend most of our playing time on electric guitar. It almost seems like two different instruments :-) Challenging, but once I picked up the timing it got easier. Then of course you change it up the second time around. All of it very useful, thanks for that excellent lesson. Nice triads too.