Showing posts with label ukulele. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ukulele. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Arirang Ukulele Tutorial

We here at ukulele.io present you a tutorial on how to play Arirang on ukulele and we think it’s pretty easy to learn for two reasons. First, the song uses just four chords: C, Am, F and G7. Second, the strum is a simple down-down-down flow with three strums per measure.

Read more here to download a copy of the lead sheet and follow the video tutorial. Also, learn more trivia about this beautiful song that unites a divided nation. 

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Ain't She Sweet Video Tutorial

Here’s a couple of reasons why you should learn how to play “Ain’t She Sweet” on the ukulele.

First of all, “Ain’t She Sweet” is a classic song that’s popular since the 1920s. Learning it adds a historic song on your list of ukulele songs.

In addition, many famous artists have performed it including the Fab Four themselves. The Beatles have performed it many times as a group including a ukulele rendition in 1995.

See the video tutorial here.

Jenny gives some lessons on how to play “Ain’t She Sweet” on the ukulele in the above video.

Rather than play a standard ukulele, she uses a banjolele that sounds real cool and goes really well with the song. A banjolele looks like a banjo but is tuned like a ukulele.

Read more here.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

City of Stars Ukulele Tutorial

We conducted a poll in December on which song you'd like to have ukulele lessons on and "City of Stars" was one of the top two songs so here comes the video tutorial for this melancholic and poetic song from the movie La La Land! 

Check out more about the chords, strums and the ukulele tutorial for City of Stars in this video.

“City of stars” was composed for the Oscar winning movie called “La La Land” starring Ryan Gosling opposite Emma Stone.

The song was originally intended to be sung by Stone’s character Mia,... Read more here.