In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m offering a sweet little bundle of five songs of love and friendship for the baritone ukulele tuning!
These songs span beginner and intermediate levels and include Me and Bobby McGee (just G, G7, C and D7), We’re Going to Be Friends (G, C, D and a couple extra), First Day of My Life, Can’t Help Falling in Love, and Lean on Me (each with lotsa fun chords to chew on!).
Also included in this post are accompanying videos to help get you started and practicing these songs of love and friendship!
This video is for standard tuning, but you can skip to the fingerpicking section to get an idea of how to spice it up!
I ask a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
Certain PDFs include explanations of techniques utilized in the corresponding video.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more helpful tools for learning music!
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m offering a sweet little bundle of five songs of love and friendship for the standard ukulele tuning!
These songs span beginner and intermediate levels and include Kiss the Girl (C, F, and G chords), We’re Going to Be Friends (G, C, D and a couple extra), First Day of My Life, Can’t Help Falling in Love, and Blue Skies (each with lotsa fun chords to chew on!).
With your downloads, you can play along with my videos below to learn the songs included!
I ask a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
Certain PDFs include explanations of techniques utilized in the corresponding video.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more helpful tools for learning music!
For more than 5 years, I have been offering free music resources for people in different stages of their ukulele journeys. I am so happy I can help!
In the coming weeks, I’ll be asking a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
My hope is that if you are investing your valuable time to make music with me in my videos, it would be worth the small price to enhance your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets.
Certain PDFs include explanations of techniques utilized in the corresponding video.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more and more helpful tools for learning music!
I have adored learning this instant classic by Lin-Manuel Miranda. I think everyone has had moments where they felt like Luisa, whom I saw as fighting to understand the distinction between herself the human and her amazing gifts and accomplishments. For me it’s been a long road to see my own validity separately from the value I bring to others. I’ve been reflecting a lot on that concept lately and have seen it start to emerge as a recurrent theme in my life.
It’s been cathartic to learn this song from the movie “Encanto.” I hope my work in creating this song sheet and arrangement helps you to also find a pathway to emotional release.
Page 1 is the song with lyrics and changes, page 2 shows the chord symbols and strumming patterns I’ve used.
If you’ve been following my posts for a minute you might know that I teach the ukulele. I’m excited to share that I’ll be running two beginning ukulele courses through Lessonface – One for kids and one for adults 13+. They will be live on Tuesday afternoons (PST) starting March 15th.
These are designed for complete beginners, so if you’ve had an ukulele sitting around for a bit and haven’t been sure about how to start it, this would be a great starting place! I plan to share this through my YouTube channel (almost 30k subscribers now!) – so grab a spot while it’s available. 🙂
Check the links below for specifics on class content, times, and please feel free to ask if you have any questions. I also am available for 1:1 lessons through Lessonface.
In this easy, beginner-friendly ukulele tutorial we’ll be learning “We’re Going to Be Friends” by The White Stripes. This song is perfect for celebrating friendship, returning to school, singing with kids, singing with grown-ups, enjoying things…
This song is a great one for introducing the general blues form, and perhaps the music theory behind the Cadd9 chord.
As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheet.
I ask a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more helpful tools for learning music!
In this easy, beginner-friendly baritone ukulele tutorial we’ll be learning “We’re Going to Be Friends” by The White Stripes. This song is perfect for celebrating friendship, returning to school, singing with kids, singing with grown-ups, enjoying things…
This one is great for introducing a blues form structure in the key of G. To keep it interesting, there is a Cadd9 chord sprinkled throughout. My printable song sheet can help us keep it all straight.
As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheet.
I ask a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more helpful tools for learning music!
I’ve been getting into TikTok lately and I won’t go too crazy with the details. As a musician, one of the most exciting features to me would be the “Duet” feature. You can make up your own part or respond to another video.
But I encountered a persistent problem: After recording my part with the other video, there would be a substantial lag. Not fun. Not musical. None of the solutions provided on the Internet would fix the problem – not clearing the cache, not restarting my phone, not using different headphones or microphone. I was living on a lonely musician island with no way to play with others as a lone tear crawled down my cheek.
I finally found a workaround and I’m excited to share it with you. Unfortunately this relies on you having a second device that can support TikTok and a video editing app on your phone. I hate that it’s not just fixing the lag in the app. But we do what we can.
Step 1: Find a Video to Duet. Save it to your phone AND add it to your “Favorites.” To do both of these things you need to click on the “Share” arrow on the bottom right corner of the screen.
Step 2: Access the video on your second device. I used an iPad. Go to TikTok, click on your own profile, and access your “Favorites” by clicking the little heart under your profile picture.
Actually this is to access videos you’ve “Liked” – the point is that you need to be able to access the same video on both devices.
Step 3: Practice? Or at least, figure out what you’ll be recording. Set up your phone to record.
Step 4: Record your part of the duet on the phone. Use headphones or ear buds so the sound of the original video doesn’t double.
Step 5: (This is the part that I wish you didn’t have to do) Edit the 2 videos on your phone. I use Cyberlink Powerdirector. I have the paid version and, for ease of use, I think it’s a great investment. I believe you can probably do this on the free version as well.
In my video you can see how I work within the interface to edit the videos together, and I’ll break it down here for you.
Step 1: Click “New Project” and choose the 1:1 ratio. Yes, I know TikTok uses 9:16. To me, this will give you more flexibility in formatting.
Step 2: Choose your video as the base recording. Edit to crop as you like.
Step 3: Add the original video as a layer, then line up the videos and make sure the audio is how you like it.
I hope this has at least been a little helpful. I know I’m excited to make more duets with my fellow TikTok musicians!
In this ukulele tutorial we’ll be playing “Brand New Key” by Melanie Safka. An absolute joy! I hope you love learning this song as much as I did!
This song uses the C, F, and G7 chords.
As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheet.
I ask a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more helpful tools for learning music!
Here’s a great song that’s fun to sing and easy to learn! It only has 4 chords, and it presents a great opportunity to work on fingerstyle and vocal technique. This song is in A major, and also uses the D, E, and E7 chords.
As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheet.
I ask a small price for my custom song sheet PDFs. The PDFs contain all of the information I show in my videos, in an easy-to-digest visual format. They are formatted to print and place in your music binder, or display on your tablet. In addition to showing which chords to play and song lyrics, these sheets also show chord diagrams to support players who are still learning.
Downloadable PDFs include full song lyrics and chord diagrams for your specified tuning.
It takes a lot of time for me to create these resources, and I hope that your support can help me to keep creating more helpful tools for learning music!
