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“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” for Baritone Ukulele

I was like, “I’ll just make those two Christmas tutorials and call it good.” Right.

This song is challenging, not just because of the chords used, but the sheer number of chords that we don’t see terribly often in the simpler songs. Hopefully in the video it helps when I break it down, it definitely took a lot of time for me to learn this. Don’t give up! Use my supplemental PDF to help with your practice.

Tutorial plus Play-Along
Standalone Play-Along

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!

Merry Christmas!

Stephy

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9 EASY, Secular Christmas Songs for Baritone Ukulele – Video and Chord Chart

This is a collection of 9 easy (meaning no barre chords, usually less than 4 chords per song, no 4-finger chords), secular Christmas songs you can learn and play along with on the BARITONE ukulele. When you’re learning, please feel free to utilize the YouTube functions of slowing down the video to half speed or repeating chapters. Some of the changes happen fast! And check out my printable download to help keep track of it all.

Songs included: Deck the Halls, O Christmas Tree, Silver Bells, All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Up on the Housetop, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, and The 12 Days of Christmas.

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets.

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!

Happy practicing!

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9 EASY, Secular Christmas Songs for Ukulele – Video and Chord Chart

This is a collection of 9 easy (meaning no barre chords, usually less than 4 chords per song, no 4-finger chords), secular Christmas songs you can learn and play along with on the ukulele. When you’re learning, please feel free to utilize the YouTube functions of slowing down the video to half speed or repeating chapters. Some of the changes happen fast!

My printable resource includes 5 pages with song lyrics and chord diagrams relevant to each song.

Songs included: Deck the Halls, O Christmas Tree, Silver Bells, All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Up on the Housetop, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Jingle Bells, and The 12 Days of Christmas.

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets.

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!

Happy practicing!

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Jingle Bells – Ukulele Chord Chart and Video

Who’s feeling festive? Oh yeah!

Did you know that Jingle Bells was written as a Thanksgiving song? Did you know that, living in coastal California, my students had no idea what a one-horse open sleigh even is?

This is either my best thumbnail ever or my worst! Haha.

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, you may be interested in enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheet. Check it out here!

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!

Happy practicing!

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“Kiss the Girl” For Ukulele

It’s challenging to find easy Disney songs to share, but I think this is a sweet one, and fun to sing! “Kiss the Girl” from “The Little Mermaid” (OG 90’s version of course) uses the C, am, F and G chords. Follow on my printable download for more ease of learning.

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!

Happy practicing!

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Happy Birthday in FIVE Keys! Ukulele Chart

You know when you’re at a birthday party and someone starts singing “Happy Birthday,” but they started too high and you have to change keys in the middle of the song?

Don’t do that. Start low. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk ;D

Anyway, I procrastinated making this chord chart, but now that it’s made I’m going to probably use it forever. My brain really wanted the chart to be the other way with the keys on the left and the I/V7/IV as columns, but it just didn’t work out if we wanted to be efficient with our space. Which we do – save the trees and all that.

Save this image or download the PDF below.

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets.

This is a resource I am sharing for free, but I ask a small price for many of 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! If you are interested in further supporting my work, consider buying me a coffee.

Happy practicing!

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“Happy Birthday” for Baritone Ukulele in 5 Keys

Well hello. “Happy Birthday” is a great song for singing to anyone, especially on their birthday. 😉 It’s also great for learning which chords are related to each other, and for getting more fluent playing in different keys.

Save this image or download the PDF below!

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets.

This is a resource I am sharing for free, but I ask a small price for many of 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! If you are interested in further supporting my work, consider buying me a coffee.

Happy practicing!

And many more…

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“Leatherwing Bat” for Baritone Ukulele

This song is so much fun to sing because of its modal character. The chords move quickly, but it’s okay because they’re easy chords and there are only 3 of them (G, D7, em).

In the past, I have used this song as a basis for teaching improvisation on the recorder. You can start with B-A-G, then add the lower E as the student(s) get comfortable.

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!

Happy practicing!

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“Mary Ann” – Chord Chart and Video

This is my favorite song to teach with only 2 chords!

Why did I chose to teach it C-G7 for this video? I seriously have no idea, because when I was teaching this to young kids it was much easier to teach this song using F and C7. Ah well. Maybe I’ll make an F-C7 version if there is demand.

Also included: Two strumming patterns!

Save this image or download the PDF below 🙂

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets.

This is a resource I am sharing for free, but I ask a small price for many of 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! If you are interested in further supporting my work, consider buying me a coffee.

Happy practicing!

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Baritone Ukulele Chord Chart – I Got Rhythm

I love this song for teaching AABA form, its fun chord progression, and just generally having fun while singing. One activity I used to do with elementary students was to have them list things that made them feel good or happy, and have them make their own versions of the song using those things. I love giving students opportunities to be creative and share what they love in their lives!

This resource is free to download. As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, consider enriching your learning experience with my supplemental song sheets, which you can find in the “Ukulele Resources and Repertoire” tab of this blog.

If you feel moved to support the work I do here, consider buying me a coffee!

I ask a small price for most of 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!

Happy practicing!