Silent Night in Open Voicing

Open Voicing arrangement is when you play the chords with the chords spread across multiple octaves and usually divided between the two hands. The following is an attempt to play the Silent Night

I am learning the open voicing arrangement and the following recording uses a very basic open voicing arrangement. The left hand playing the root note and the fifth notes while the right hand played the third and the melody note above it.

There had been exceptions though primarily because of constraints. The left hand played an Octave for the root note(instead of root and fifth) during the last G chord. This was because the chord had to be played down to avoid clash with the melody in the right hand and the root and the fifth there was creating a not so pleasing sound. Also, for the right hand, only the melody note is played if the melody note itself was the third of the chord.

Please refer the song page Silent Night for more information on the song. To know more about the Piano Techniques used, please refer the Techniques page.

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