White Winter Hymnal — reimagined in D A D G D F#

Originally by Fleet Foxes (Standard tuning) Tuning used here D A D G D F# (Nick Drake's tuning) Key idea a modern folk-harmony round, refretted in the tuning behind "Northern Sky"

This isn't how White Winter Hymnal was originally played. Fleet Foxes recorded it in Standard tuning — this page takes the real, widely-documented chord progression and refrets it in Nick Drake's own D A D G D F# tuning, pairing a modern folk-revival round with the tuning of one of its clearest ancestors.

The song sits in E major, rocking between the tonic and its relative-minor-feeling vi chord (F#m) under the round-like vocal layering, before the chorus opens out through A and a dominant B7 that pulls the harmony back home.

E→ F⁠#⁠m→ E→ F⁠#⁠m→ A→ B7→ E

This is the core verse-into-chorus progression as commonly transcribed — open it below to hear each real shape in D A D G D F#.

This tuning isn't in the free plan. Unlock Pro to dial in D A D G D F# with capo 1 and hear the real changes remixed.

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Every chord verified against the app's own voicing engine in the real D A D G D F# tuning.