Wednesday, February 22, 2012

For my Familele

Hello, all my ukulele friends. Yesterday our fearless leader and I had our own little jam session. We were teaching each other songs and she asked me to post some of the song I play with links, because all my songs are simple. Since I'm sitting at work for a few hours with nothing to do I thought I would do my best to comply with her request. Here are the songs I play:
"Anyone Else But You" by Moldy Peaches
"I'll Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie
"The Way I Am" by Ingrid Michaelson
"Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison
"Im Yours" by Jason Mraz
"Stand By Me" by Ben E King
"Fuck You" by Ceelo Green
"Hallelujah" by Leonard Coehn(written by)/Jeff Buckley(made famous by)/Beirut(ukulele version)
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by IZ

Anyone Else But You is the easiest song in the word to learn. Strum pattern I use is D-DU-UDU. It has two chords: G and C, that's it. It goes G D-DU-UDU X 2 then C D-DU-UDU X 2 for the whole song. here is a link to the tabs http://www.ukulele-tabs.com/uke-songs/moldy-peaches/anyone-else-but-you-uke-tab-16427.html. here is the video I used to learn

Way I Am has only 4 chords G-C-Em-D. I use a DDUUD strum pattern (i think). You can easily recognize the strum pattern from the video. She tell you the chords  for the verses and chorus in the description. Here is the video I used for this.

I'll Follow You Into the Dark is another D-DU-UDU strumming songs. The chords I got from ukulelehunt here is the link: http://ukulelehunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/iwillfollow.pdf. I play the verses: F D-DU-UDU X 2 Dm D-DU-UDU X 2 Bb D-DU-UDU X 2 then F D-DU-UDU C D-DU-UDU. The chorus I strum D-DU-UDU one per chord. I omit Fm7 and Dm7 through-out the whole song. I cant find the video I used, sorry :(

I have to go fly so I'll finish this when I get home. Sorry you all could make it and hope to see you all next week.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Membership EXPLOSION!


SO many new faces this week! Welcome to Colby Jen Lindsay Jack Elisa and Sarah! I hope we keep seeing you ladies&laddies week after week and learn some new songs from ya! Please post songs you're learing, useful links, recordings, artwork, whatever! just tag your posts for easy searching!

New Songs!
Anyone Else but you- Thanks Colby for playing us this one! its easy and fun!
Fools Rush in- Jen played a beautiful cover of this song. Can't Wait to learn it!!!
Elephant Gun- Shaila and Krystal are awesome at this song. Make sure to learn it for Staychella!
Call It Off-Tegan and Sara. 
King of Wishful Thinking- Go West
Build me Up Buttercup The Foundations



BTW!!! IT was REALLY fun this week! make sure to practice the new songs for next week!!