Sunday, February 3, 2019

Songs candidates for Town Day - June 1, 2019

Starting a list of songs we might play for Town Day this year.  Send your suggestions.
We will start grouping them ("Hawaii", "Rock N Roll", "Ballads", "Food")

  1. Aint She Sweet
  2. Charlie on the MTA
  3. Eidelweiss
  4. Fly Me To The Moon
  5. If I Had a Hammer
  6. I Saw Her Standing There
  7. Let It Be Me
  8. Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian
  9. Maxwell Silver Hammer
  10. One Meatball
  11. Rainbow Connection
  12. Rock Around The Clock
  13. Stand By Me
  14. That's Amore
  15. This Little Light of Mine
  16. Tiny Bubbles
  17. Tonight You Belong To Me
  18. Under the Boardwalk
  19. Wagon Wheel
  20. Walk Right In
  21. Yakity Yak
  22. You're 16

Send in your favorites!

Monday, January 7, 2019

Four Chord Songs using C-Am-F-G7

These all rely on the base C-Am-F-G7 pattern, which is one the more useful sequences to become familiar with the transitions, particularly from F to G7:


Alternate/ Equivalent 4chords
F 0102
Dm 0122
Bb 1123
C7 1000
or C 0003

G 2320
Em 2340
C
D7 0202

A 0012
F#m 0212
D  0222
E7 2021

D 0222
Bm 2224
G 2320
A7 0010

1st string is bottom/right (A string) 
NUT =
Top
Of
Uke
G (4th)
C (3rd)
E (2nd)
A (1st)
C  3000
Am 0002
F 0102
G7 2120
When I want
You /
In  my
Arms /
( youtube is in different key)
When I want
You /
And all your
Charms /

When ever I
Want you
All I have to
Do / is

Dreee-
Eam
Dream dream
Dream when





Tell me tell me
Tell me /
Who wrote the book of
Love ?

I have to know the
Answer was it
Someone from a-
-bove?





Where have all the flowers gone 
Where have all the
Flowers gone
Long time
Passing

Where have all the
Flowers gone
Long time
Ago


Where have all the
Flowers gone
Young girls pick them
Every one

[F] when will they
[C] ever learn
[F] when will they
[G7} eee-ver
--> [C] learn





Octopus's Garden
/ I'd like to be
/ Under the sea, in an
octopus's
Garden, with

you








Silhouettes on the shade
/ Took a
Walk past your
house
Late last

Night, all the
Shades were pulled and
Drawn,
Way down

Tight








Love how your eyes close, whenever you 
Kiss me and when I'm a
Way from you, I love how you
Miss me





(In the -) Still of the
Night. / I
Iheld you, held you
Tight

(cause I) Love you
Love you so, promise I'll
Never / let you
Go





Stand by Me
(when the) Night has come and the
Land is dark, and the
Moon is the
only light we

See




I won't be afraid, no I 
Won't be afraid   just as
Long as you
Stand, stand by

Me, so darling darling




Stand by me, oh 0h
Stand by me, 0h 0h
Stand, stand
By me / stand by

Me








Sherry
Sherr
-ry
/ Sherry
Baby





Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
Tonight you're
Mine, com-
Pletely,


You give your
Love, so
Sweet-
Ly  / -to-
[E7=2021]
[E7] night the light of
Love is in your eyes,
Will you still
Love me, to

[Dm]moooo [C]row














need to put in a few from the original list 
1) where have all the flowers gone
2) will you still love me tomorrow (tonight you're mine completely, you give your love so sweetly)
3) silhouettes on the shade (took a walkin past your house, late last night)
4) octopus's garden (I'd like to be, under the sea, in an octopus's garden, with you)
5) earth angel (earth angel, earth angel, won't you be mine)
6) book of love (tell me tell me tell me, who wrote the book of love, I've got to knwo the answer was it someone from above)
7) be my baby
8) dream lover (dream lover, where are you)
9) stand by me
10) all I have to do is dream (when I want you, in the night, when I want you, to hold me tight)
11) i love how you love me (I love how your eyes close, whenever you kiss me, and when Im away from you, I love how you miss me)
12) in the still of the night (in the still of the night, I held you, held you tight, cause I love, love you so, promise me I'll never let you go)
13) sherry (sherry, sherry baby)
14) unchained melody
15) heart and soul

Saturday, January 5, 2019

2019 World Play Your Ukulele Day

Bringing the world together four strings at a time.

https://www.worldnationaldays.com/world-play-your-ukulele-day-2019/

World Play Your Ukulele Day 2019
World Play Your Ukulele Day 2019 is observed on Saturday, February 2, 2019

image source: internet

Thanks to SB for the reminder.

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Saturday, August 4, 2018

Quantity or Quality?

https://playitdailyukulele.com/uke-practice-quality-quantity-answer-inside/

“In their book Art and Fear David Bayles and Ted Orland tell the story of a ceramics teacher who announced on the opening day of class that he was dividing the students into two groups. Half were told that they would be graded on quantity. On the final day of the term, the teacher said he would come to class with some scales and weigh the pots they had made. They would get an ‘A’ for 50 lbs of pots, a ‘B’ for 40 lbs, and so on. The other half would be graded on quality. They just had to bring along their one, perfect pot. 
The results were emphatic: the works of highest quality were all produced by the group graded for quantity. As Bayles and Orland put it: ‘It seems that while the ‘quantity’ group was busily churning out piles of work—and learning from their mistakes—the ‘quality’ group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile of dead clay.”
As possibly counterintuitive as this observation is, it does line up with the idea of "fail early and often", try something.  Try another thing. At some time you will hit on a NICE thing, which you can keep.  But if you just think about it, and never do, it's all theory.

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