Easy Ukulele Teacher`s Guide

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Easy
Ukulele
Songs
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Download Edition
A beginner book for
Soprano Ukulele
Includes:
• Tuning tips
• Chord charts
• 32 familiar songs
• Lyrics with chords
• Notation with chords
• 1, 2, and 3 chord songs
Compiled by Denise Gagné
Themes & Variations
Teacher’s Guide
Easy Ukulele Songs in D
Teacher’s Guide
Song
By Denise Gagné
Music
Introduction, Tips and Tuning
1. Little Tommy Tinker 2. Johnny One Hammer 3. Funga Alafia
4. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
5. Adieu My Comrades
6. This Old Hammer
7. Ten in the Bed
8. Land of the Silver Birch
9. Canoe Song
10. In the Land of Oz
11. Skin and Bones
12. The Ghost of Tom
13. Cotton Eyed Joe
14. Whistle Daughter
15. Little Liza Jane
16. The Wandering Cowboy
17. Clementine
18. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
19. Hush Little Baby
20. This Old Man
21. He’s Got the Whole World
22. Rock-a My Soul
23. Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
24. Hey Lidee
25. Old Texas
26. Found a Peanut
27. Boll Weevil
28 Nobody Likes Me
29. Wade in the Water
30. What Shall We Do With a Silly Sailor?
31. Michael Row Your Boat Ashore
32. Jingle Bells
Chord Charts
Easy Pop Songs Links
Lyrics
Chords
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831D
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D
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D A7
932G
1032G
1033G
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33
Em
1233Em
1234Em
13
34 F#m
13
34
F#m
1435B
1435E
1536E
1536A
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A E7
17
37
G
D7
18
38
G
D7
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39
D A7
20
40
D A7
21
41
D A7
22
42
D A
23
43
E
B
23
43
E
B
24
44
E
B
25
45
A E
27
46
A E
2746Em B7
28
47
Em D
29
48
A D E
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49
A D E
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Permission to Reproduce: The teacher is permitted to reproduce the worksheet pages in this collection for the students in one school
Introduction
This collection of easy songs for ukulele is designed to get you singing and playing the ukulele in
the very first lesson! The chords used in this collection are introduced through a series of 15 one
chord songs. Mastering the chords before having to learn to change chords eliminates much of the
frustration that young beginners face. After introducing the chords used, 15 easy two chord songs
are given. If your students find it difficult to switch chords, divide the class into two groups and
have one group play one chord and the other group play the other. Practice changing the chords
slowly without looking at the fretboard. When students are able to “feel” where the fingers go,
changing the chords will be easy. The last two songs in the collection use three chords. A CD
with recordings of all the songs is included. If you don’t have a CD drive on your computer email
[email protected] to request a download.
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Students will learn the chords and how to change chords using the folk songs that are given in the
collection. In addition to the songs in the collection we’ve given links (in the projectable PDF
included on the CD) to easy pop songs on YouTube that use the same chords. Students really
enjoy playing along with pop songs. Where possible, links to the original artists’ performance
and to a video with the chords and lyrics are given. An inexpensive student book/CD is available
so your students can play along with all the folk songs and easily access the same YouTube links
at home. This collection does not address reading notes and playing melodies - the focus is on
learning songs to sing and strum.
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The ukulele originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of the machete, a small
guitar-like instrument taken to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants. Since then, the ukulele has been
commonly associated with music from Hawaii, where the name roughly translates as “jumping
flea,” perhaps because of the movement of the player’s fingers. The ukulele gained great popularity
elsewhere in the United States during the early 20th century, and from there spread internationally.
It has been popular with performing musicians, and also in music education.
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Parts of the Ukulele
Headstock
Tuning pegs
Strings
Frets
Neck
Body
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Sound hole
Bridge
Ukulele is sometimes abbreviated to uke. The ukulele
is a member of the guitar family of instruments.
It has four strings that are played by plucking or
strumming. Ukuleles are generally made of wood,
though variants have been composed partially or
entirely of plastic or other materials. There are four
main sizes of ukulele: soprano (standard), concert,
tenor and baritone. The soprano, concert and tenor
are good sizes for the young beginner.
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Tenor Ukulele
Soprano Ukulele
Playing Position
Sitting
• Sit up straight with your feet flat on the floor and your shoulders relaxed
• If the ukulele is large enough, rest the ukulele on your right leg
• If the ukulele is too small to rest on your leg, hold it against your ribcage with your right
forearm
Standing
• Press the ukulele against your ribcage with your right forearm to keep the uke in place
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Use a strap
• Some players like to use a strap to keep the ukulele in place
The Right Hand
•You can use either your thumb or your
index (pointer) finger to strum
•Some players like to use a pick. Hold the
pick between your thumb and the middle
knuckle of your pointer finger, in the same
way you would hold a key. Felt picks are
used most often on ukulele.
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Playing Chords
The Left Hand
• The fingers of your left hand are numbered 1-2-3-4
• The left thumb goes on the back of the ukulele neck
• Press the strings using the tips of your fingers between the two frets
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1
E
4
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Chord Diagrams
The chord diagram is like a picture or map of the neck of your ukulele. It shows where to
place the fingers to play a chord. The lines down represent the strings and the horizontal lines
represent the frets.
• The numbered circles show you where to depress a string and which finger to use
• In this example, press down the first string at the third fret
• Use your third finger
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D
C
Frets
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Strings
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A
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D
F#
5
Finger
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B
Tuning the Ukulele
Tuning the ukulele is easy, especially since there are many apps available to help with this. An excellent
tuner for mobile devices can be found by searching for “guitar toolkit.” It has instrument specific tuners
for all stringed instruments, chord guides and a great metronome. A good free tuner is n-Track Tuner.
There are many more free tuners available, but beware of “in app” purchases and plenty of adware.
In large classes of students, it may be more efficient to line up the students, ukulele in hand, and tune
them yourself than to try and have students tune the instruments. At www.musicplayonline.com there is
a ukulele tuner. Log in, and then select Ukulele from the menu on the left. Click on the tuning peg to
start and stop the sound. This book uses D tuning (standard) so click on Ukulele Tuner D.
Better quality ukuleles will stay in tune much better, so try to purchase good quality ukuleles. Always
loosen the string and then tighten it up until it is in tune (from under pitch to on pitch). Instruct your
students to never touch the tuning pegs once you have tuned the instrument.
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The strings are tuned as follows:
String 4: A
String 3: D
String 2: F#
String 1: B
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Open string tuning:
For easy tuning, start at the A with a tuner and move up. The melody will sound a little bit like “My dog
has fleas.” Play a D chord to make sure the instrument is in tune with itself. Make music!
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Pop Songs to Play on Ukulele
Playing pop music is a huge motivator for students. The Projectable PDF file includes links to 32 pop
songs with one, two, three or more chords that are easy to play. As soon as students are familiar with
a few chords, try playing the pop songs that are included in the links. Links are included to the YouTube channel, “Easy Ukulele Chords and Lyrics” to learn the chords, and to the original performer’s
videos.
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1. Little
LittleTommy
TommyTinker
Tinker
Intro 2 bars
œ œ œ œ œ
Lit - tle Tom - my Tin - ker
sat up - on a clink - er.
˙
Ma!
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He
be - gan to
œ œ œ œ œ
Poor
lit - tle
w
cry.
..
w
in - no - cent
guy.
2. Johnny One Hammer
Intro 2 bars
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John - ny plays with one
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John - ny
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plays with
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one
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one
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one
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then he plays with two.
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Johnny
with three hammers...
3. Johhny4.plays
with
three with
hammers...
Johnny plays
four hammers...
4. Johhny plays with four hammers...
Johnny
with five hammers...
5. Johhny5.plays
withplays
five hammers...
Then
he
takes
a rest.
Then he takes a rest.
Funga Alafia
3. Funga Alafia
Intro 2 bars
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D
j
c œJ œ œ œ œ
D
Repeat 4 times
Fun - ga
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& J
Fun - ga
a - la - fia.
j
j
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Ah - shay, ah - shay.
j
œ œ œ œj œ
a - la - fia.
Ah - shay,
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J
Fun - ga a - la - fia.
j
œ œ
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ah - shay.
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Fun - ga
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j
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Liberia
Ah - shay, ah - shay.
j
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a - la - fia.
Ah - shay,
j Œ ..
œ œ
ah - shay.
9. Canoe Song
Intro 2 bars
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&
J
Canoe Song
j
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Em
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j
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My pad - dle's keen and bright,
# j
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dip, dip
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& J
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J
and swing.
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the
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wild
goose
j
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Fol - low
j
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flight,
dip,
the wild goose flight,
j
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and swing her back,
dip
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flash - ing
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with sil - ver.
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and swing.
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flash - ing with sil - ver.
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of of
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Clapping Game: The 8-beat clapping pattern starts on the downbeat. Each person starts with their left hand up and right
hand down. Their partner’s left hand is under their right, and their partner’s right is over their left. One hand will clap up
and the other down. Do this twice, then repeat reversing hands with your partner. Your left hand will now be down. Next
clap your own hands twice, and then clap your partner’s hands twice. This pattern repeats until the end of the song.
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20.
Old Man
Man
18.This
This Old
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D
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This old man,
œ œ
he played one,
D
œ
œ
knick - knack
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˙
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pat - ty whack,
œ
œ
he played knick - knack
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œ œ œ œ
give a dog a bone,
A7
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on
A7
œ œ œ œ
This old man came
œ
A7
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my thumb. With a
D
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roll - ing home.
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6. This old man, he played six,
A7
He played knick-knack on my sticks...
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2. shoe
3. knee
D
4. door
2. This old man, he played two,
5. hive
A7
6. sticks
He played knick-knack on my shoe. 7. up in heaven
8. gate
D
9. vine
With a knick-knack patty whack, give 10.
a dog
bone,
all aover
again
A7
D
This old man came rolling home.
œ
D
E
Intro 2 bars
D
7. This old man, he played seven,
A7
He played knick-knack up in heaven...
D
8. This old man, he played eight,
A7
He played knick-knack on my gate...
D
4. This old man, he played four,
A7
He played knick-knack on my door...
D
9. This old man, he played nine,
A7
He played knick-knack on my spine...
D
5. This old man, he played five,
A7
He played knick-knack on my hive...`
D
10. This old man, he played ten,
A7
He played knick-knack once again...
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3. This old man, he played three,
A7
He played knick-knack on my knee...
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1. Little Tommy Tinker
Intro 2 bars
D
Little Tommy Tinker sat upon a clinker.
D
He began to cry.
Ma! Ma!
Poor little innocent guy.
2. Johnny One Hammer
D
1. Johnny plays with one hammer,
One hammer, one hammer.
Johnny plays with one hammer,
Then he plays with two.
E
D
2. Johnny plays with two hammers...
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4. Johnny plays with four hammers...
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3. Johnny plays with three hammers...
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Intro 2 bars
5. Johnny plays with five hammers...
Then he takes a rest.
3. Funga Alafia
Intro 2 bars
D
D
Funga alafia. Ahshay, ahshay.
The teacher is permitted to reproduce this page for students in one school or institution.
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4. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Intro 2 bars
D
Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream.
(A7)
D
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
D
A7
(A7)
D
Ha ha! Fooled you! I’m a submarine.
(A7)
D
Throw your teacher overboard and listen to her scream.
5. Adieu My Comrades
Intro 4 bars
E
G
PL
Adieu to my comrades for a while we must part.
G
And likewise the lassie who’s stolen my heart.
I am bound out for Greenland and ready to sail.
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In hopes to find riches in hunting the whale.
Our ship is well rigged and she’s ready to sail.
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Our crew they are anxious to follow the whale,
Where the icebergs do float and the stormy winds blow,
Where land and the ocean is covered with snow.
6. This Old Hammer
Intro 2 bars
G
G
This old hammer shines like a silver,
Shines like a gold boys,
Yes, shines like a gold.
Ain’t no hammer in this old mountain,
Shines like a mine boys,
Yes, shines like a mine.
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C
D
C7
D7
G7
A7
G
A
1
1
PL
A
B
F
G
SA
1
M
Am
Bm
1
D
E
1 2 3
2
3
3
3
2
2
E
1
Dm
Em
1
2
2
1
Em
F#m
1
2
E7
2
1
2
3
Note:
Some chords have been
altered to fit smaller hands.
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Easy Pop Songs to Play on the Ukulele
1. Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Chord: D
Lyrics/Chords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siY6PMUWr9g
Students can play along with the performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP3TTGuddjY
2. Jambalaya - The Mudbugs
Chords: D/A
Lyrics/Chords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTD4yfphxxo
3. A Horse with No Name - America 58
Chords: D/Em
Chords/Lyrics: https://youtu.be/jEVXwxpqXOY
Students can play along with the performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm4BrZjY_Sg
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4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Deep Blue Something
Chords: D/G/A
Lyric and chords:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWvvT3oypiQ
Students can play with the performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw
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5. Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
Chords D/G
lyrics/chord http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/www.allcountrytabs.com/tabs/earle-steve/copperhead-road-6385.html?1944-06-06=always&url=&transpose=&tuning=ADFsharpB
Students can play along with the performance video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
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These YouTube videos are on the Easy Guitar Songs Channel.
These chords will be playable by students using the Easy Ukulele Songs in D.
1. Achy Breaky Heart - recorded by Billy Ray Cyrus
Students can play along with the Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc
Chords: A and E
Chords/Lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4UYgtT2pKc
2. Silence Is Easy - Starsailor
Students can play along with the Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fglU5Ngd-Pk
Chords: A and E
Lyrics/Chords: http://youtu.be/T4M9SM2MRNc
3. When Love Comes to Town - B.B. King and U2
Students can play along with the Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3wgoaONzwo
Chords: A and E
Lyrics/Chords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjy75RMFHdI
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Easy Ukulele Teacher`s Guide

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