Feel free to leave a comment with the ukelele songs you’d like to learn. This is a common guitar technique that’s used by the Cars and other ’80s rock bands. Roll your hand and use your pick to strum across the strings. Place the bottom part of your hand across all the strings, lightly. Once you have them down you can move on to other ukulele songs that employ other chords, and then onwards to more challenging songs. Palm muting is a fun exercise to practice when you’re strumming. How nice it is that the easiest chords on the uke also yield a massive amount of songs! We listed only a few here, but there are many more that use just these four chords. And of course, you can do that with any instrument. With just four chords you can easily learn eight songs in a day. There are some great resources for learning the ukulele today. Tyler from Ten Thumbs Tyler’s successful ukulele and guitar teaching YouTube Channel has almost 300k subscribers and his lessons are popular with beginner and advanced ukeleists alike and strongly influenced by.
In other words, a fantastic song if you are starting out on the instrument. Flight Ukulele’s are hosting 12 hours of ukulele lessons and workshops for Make Music Day’s Music Lesson Marathon. The strum pattern in D DU UDU and the chords are G, C, and D. We discuss the origins of two famous hand gestures, the thumbs up signal. Leaving on a Jet Plane is a great song to start learning the uke with, as it also features simple lyrics and a structure that is not hard to remember. It is easy to learn, with a simple form and a bare-bones strumming pattern that is very effective.
This is a classic song by John Denver and features only three chords.