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

Stephy

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!

9 Secular Christmas Songs for Ukulele – GCEA Tuning
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Happy Birthday in FIVE Keys! Ukulele Chart

Stephy

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.

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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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“Mary Ann” – Chord Chart and Video

Stephy

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!

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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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Ukulele Chord Chart – “Blue Skies”

Stephy

This is “Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin. I love this song so much. I love the emotional meaning of the color blue (my favorite color), his use of mixed major and minor tonalities, and the melody itself of course. Kids love this song, too!

This arrangement is in a minor, also utilizing the dm, D7, C, G7, and fm 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!

Happy practicing!

“Blue Skies” by Irving Berlin – GCEA Ukulele Song Sheet
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“Octopus’s Garden” by Ringo Starr – Ukulele Chord Chart

Stephy

Have fun with this song that is an excellent example for teaching AABA form and a great introduction to The Beatles. This arrangement includes the C, am, F, and G7 chords for the A section and F, dm and Bb chords for the B section.

This tutorial is in C to make it somewhat easier to play on ukulele.

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!

“Octopus’s Garden” by Ringo Starr (The Beatles) – Song sheet for GCEA Ukulele
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“This Land Is Your Land” for Ukulele

Stephy

This song by Woody Guthrie is so good for kids – not only is the message and history so deep and nuanced, but the chord progression is easy to learn – only C, F and G7 chords. If you lose your spot, you can always go back to C!

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!

This Land Is Your Land – Chord Chart for GCEA Ukulele
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10 Kids’ Songs with 3 Chords on Ukulele

Stephy

I finally made the video for this collection! Actually I made the collection, video graphics, and recorded the video many moons ago, but I didn’t like how the video looked so I re-recorded it and now have finally put it all together.

Songs include: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, You Are My Sunshine, Down by the Bay, This Land Is Your Land, Old MacDonald, Grandfather’s Clock, The Muffin Man, Frog Went A-Courtin, Mr. Sun, If You’re Happy and You Know It.

As you invest your valuable time making music with me in my videos, you may be interested in enriching your learning experience.

My corresponding PDF files are for GCEA tuning – if you play baritone uke and know the chord shapes on your own, or if you just want to pretend you’re playing GCEA shapes, feel free!

This chord sheet includes lyrics and chords for 10 kids’ songs to play on the ukulele.

The only chords used in this collection are C, F, and G7. Chord diagrams are on each page for easy reference for either the student or the teacher.

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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Ukulele Chord Sheet – “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes

Stephy

This 90’s classic is one of my favorites and one of the musical through-lines through my life! If you wake in the morning and you step outside, and you feel like you need to take a deep breath and get real high…you should scream at the top of your lungs, “WHAT’S GOING ON?!?!”

This song is a great one for learning because it only has 3 chords, but they’re different from our very beginning easy songs. We’ve got A, D, and b-minor to get you real comfy with a barre chord. The chord progression is repetitive, so this is also a great one for practicing strumming.

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!

“What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes – GCEA Ukulele Song Sheet
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10 Kids’ Songs Using 2 Chords – Ukulele and Baritone Ukulele

Stephy

This is my collection of 10 kids’ songs that only use 2 chords on the ukulele. Songs include the Itsy Bitsy Spider, Make New Friends, Baby Bumblebee, My Darling Clementine, Did You Ever See a Lassie, This Old Man, Six Little Ducks, The Wheels on the Bus, The Farmer in the Dell, and the Hokey Pokey. In this resource, all of the songs use the C and G7 chords.

To supplement the video, I have created song sheet downloads for each ukulele tuning – GCEA and DGBE. It’s always tricky to find good kids’ songs with only 2 chords, so I hope you find this convenient! I always display chord diagrams on the pages for the ease of people still learning.

Play along with me here – The video displays chords for both GCEA and DGBE tunings.

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 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!

10 Kids’ Songs that Use 2 Chords – GCEA
10 Kids’ Songs that Use 2 Chords – Baritone Ukulele