Guitar/Ukulele Recap Week 2

This week, we added the G chord on the guitar and the C chord on the ukulele.
Play along with This Land is Your Land on the video!

The pattern is
1 1 1 1
4 4 4 4
1 1 1 1
5 5 5 5
1 1 1 1

What does that mean? Well, in each key, there is a “home” chord. In major, it’s the tonic.

Since we’re putting this song in G on the uke, the numbers would be (it’s simply alphabetical)
G A B C D E F
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

So G is 1
C is 4
and D is 5

So:
G G G G
C C C C
G G G G
D D D D
G G G G

Can you figure it out for guitar?
Same pattern, different key.

D E F# G A B C#
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Happy Birthday Ukulele Tutorial in C or G

Follow along to play Happy Birthday on the Ukulele in both the keys of C and G. The chords are as follows:

 

I                            V7
Happy Birthday to you

V7              I
Happy Birthday to you

I                        IV
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday

I            (V7) I
Happy Birthday to you

C                          G
Happy Birthday to you

G             C
Happy Birthday to you

C                        F
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday

C            (G) C
Happy Birthday to you

G                           D7
Happy Birthday to you

D7              G
Happy Birthday to you

G                        C
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday

G           (D7) G
Happy Birthday to you

Chords in C

Chords in G

Recorder Challenge.

Recorder Challenge.

We’re using Sarah Watt’s Red Hot Recorder Method in class. If you want to continue past what we’re doing in school, the book can be found at Al Hemer’s Music in Orchard Park. I also suggest searching for tutorials or recorder sheet music freely available online.

This is how the recorder challenge works:

  1. I will give you a song.
  2. You may practice as much as you’d like
  3. You may challenge me on that song.
  4. If you make the same amount of mistakes I do or less, you win candy.

I warn you, I practice. You should too.

(ps. this is meant to be fun, don’t stress, practice your instrument and improve!)