Chords for Aloha 'Oe - Ukulele Tutorial

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Hi there, this video is going to teach you how to play Aloha Oe, which is one of the
most famous Hawaiian songs, not just for ukulele, but in general.
It's written by Queen Lili'uokalani, _ who was quite an accomplished songwriter and musician,
as well as being queen.
And I am going to attempt to sing it in the Hawaiian language, and I encourage you to
try the same.
I don't speak the language, but I thought it was important to learn and to try, and
I encourage you to incorporate the sound of it into your knowledge of the song as well
as you practice.
And before we get started, just to review, we need the chords C, [F] F, and [G] G7.
_ And what we're going to do is use a strum pattern that's pretty straightforward.
[C] It's what I call the down-up-down.
Just take your C chord and we'll kind of warm up with it.
It's going to sound like this.
One, two, and three, four, and one, two, and three, four, and nice and slow.
And the way that I strum is I use my thumb and my pointer finger.
I kind of strum down with my pointer finger so my nail goes across the strings.
Then when I come up, I kind of let my thumb hit the strings on the way up and then come
back down with my pointer finger.
In general, the down strums are stronger than the up strums, so they're a little bit lighter
on the way back up, almost as if you're just kind of dragging your thumb across.
It's not as strong of a strum as the down strum is.
So let's try it again, starting on that C chord.
Down, down, up, down, up.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three.
All right.
I'm going to start verse one, and I'll call out the chords here so you know when to switch.
Here we go.
One, two, three.
Ha'aheo, F.
_ [F] _ _ Kawaii na, [C]
C.
Pali.
_ Now G7. _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
Back _ _ _ _ _ to C.
_ _ F.
_ [F] _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
G7.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _ F.
To the chorus, up to F.
_ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ C.
[C] _ _ _ _
_ _ G7.
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
F.
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _
_ _ G7.
C.
[C] Aho _ _ 'iaeao.
G7.
[G] Until _ we meet.
C.
[C] Again. _ _
Nice.
Take a breather here.
Just kind of get reestablished on this strum pattern.
_ Down, up, down.
Down, up, down.
Down, up, down.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three.
Let's go to verse two.
Here we go.
_ One, two, three.
O ka hale a, F.
[F] _
Aloha, E, C.
[C] Hiki mai. _ _ _ _
G7.
[G] Ke hone a'e nai, i ku'u mana.
_ _ Back to C.
[C] O o'oi, lo [F] F, ka'u, i po [C] C, _ aloha.
Then G7.
[G] _ Aloha, E, ha'a.
_ [C] _ _ _ Back to the chorus, to F.
_ [F] _ _ Aloha, O, A, C.
[C] _ _ Aloha. _ _
_ [G] G7.
E ke o na'o na'o, lo o, i ka lipu. _
Back to F.
[F] E fa'n de, _ _ C.
[C] Aho'i a'e ao.
G7.
[G] Until _ we meet C [C] again.
_ _ And we'll stop right there.
Feel free to go back to the beginning of the video
and run through it as many times as you need for your practice.
Enjoy. _ _ _ _ _