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