Chords for Joe Brown ukulele lesson
Tempo:
73.9 bpm
Chords used:
C
E
G
F
A
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Tuning one of these is like, it depends, because a lot of the old songs, right, some of which
we do in our show like that See You In My Dreams song, they're all written on the ukulele.
And if you get any of the old sheet music, look up in the top right hand corner, you'll
see these little tablature boxes.
And it says, tune uke.
And it tells you how to tune the uke.
You tune the uke specifically for the particular song that you're playing, right.
[F] So some have a C on the top, some, the general tuning is an A on the top.
And it works out a G on the bottom, so I think you've got an A and an E and a C and a G.
And it's like the first four strings on a guitar, but obviously a different key, because
the top string of a guitar is E.
But if you play a C shape on this, that is a concert F.
See, so if I played a C, you'd be an F.
[Bb] [F] Right, so it's very loose, you can do it, you make it up as you go along really.
The great thing about the uke is it's dead easy to play.
Anybody can pick up a uke and play a couple of tunes easy in a day.
And they're very wonderful little instruments.
The problem with them was, I found that when I was a kid, you know, everyone had these
ukuleles, but they were so [E] cheap to buy that they got put into the toy bracket.
People considered they was a toy, you know, there wasn't a proper instrument, it was like
a miniature guitar, which in fact they [C] are, because it's the first four strings on a guitar.
Except this bottom string, which is an octave string, which is where you get these kind of sh**.
[E]
[Ab] [C]
[Eb] [C] [B] [C] [E]
[A] [Em] [D] [G] [Em]
[C] [Dm] [G] [Cm] [Eb]
[Abm] Great little [C] instrument, the ukulele.
[E] [A] [Gb] [G]
[C] [G] [C] [E] [A] And [Gb] loads of songs [G] like that.
[C] [E]
[A] [Gb] [G] [G]
[C] [E] [A] [Db] You [F] know, all those, Anybody See My Gal, and all them kind of tunes, they just fall under
the fingers with a uke.
And that's one of the reasons I know that a lot of these songs were written on it, because
if you play them on a uke, they do, it just kind of falls under the fingers, and you know
that it's right.
When I play it on stage, I don't have a pick-up in it, so I hold it very high, so that I can
sing into the mic and still [Abm] get the uke over and balance it between the thing.
The other thing about holding it high is that your strumming hand is level with the strings,
rather than at that kind of lower angle.
And somebody taught me this wonderful thing called a scissor movement.
This bloke, I bought a car [Em] off him in 1964, my very first E-type Jag, 2,000 pounds on
the road, and this bloke was the president of the George Formley Appreciation Society,
and I bought a banjo ukulele from him, and he used to give me some tips, and he said
George Formley used to do this scissor movement, and what it is, it's very simple, but it's
simple for me, I practise [Ab] it a lot, but it's this kind [F] of thing.
Bum bum diddly da diddly da diddly dum diddly [C] da diddly da diddly dum dum, that kind of
thing, and it's done like this, it's a single movement with a finger, [F] finger, thumb, finger,
finger, da da da da, da da da da, not, it's got to go flow.
[N]
And that is a very handy thing to learn, is that little scissor movement, you know, because
you can get these little riffs
we do in our show like that See You In My Dreams song, they're all written on the ukulele.
And if you get any of the old sheet music, look up in the top right hand corner, you'll
see these little tablature boxes.
And it says, tune uke.
And it tells you how to tune the uke.
You tune the uke specifically for the particular song that you're playing, right.
[F] So some have a C on the top, some, the general tuning is an A on the top.
And it works out a G on the bottom, so I think you've got an A and an E and a C and a G.
And it's like the first four strings on a guitar, but obviously a different key, because
the top string of a guitar is E.
But if you play a C shape on this, that is a concert F.
See, so if I played a C, you'd be an F.
[Bb] [F] Right, so it's very loose, you can do it, you make it up as you go along really.
The great thing about the uke is it's dead easy to play.
Anybody can pick up a uke and play a couple of tunes easy in a day.
And they're very wonderful little instruments.
The problem with them was, I found that when I was a kid, you know, everyone had these
ukuleles, but they were so [E] cheap to buy that they got put into the toy bracket.
People considered they was a toy, you know, there wasn't a proper instrument, it was like
a miniature guitar, which in fact they [C] are, because it's the first four strings on a guitar.
Except this bottom string, which is an octave string, which is where you get these kind of sh**.
[E]
[Ab] [C]
[Eb] [C] [B] [C] [E]
[A] [Em] [D] [G] [Em]
[C] [Dm] [G] [Cm] [Eb]
[Abm] Great little [C] instrument, the ukulele.
[E] [A] [Gb] [G]
[C] [G] [C] [E] [A] And [Gb] loads of songs [G] like that.
[C] [E]
[A] [Gb] [G] [G]
[C] [E] [A] [Db] You [F] know, all those, Anybody See My Gal, and all them kind of tunes, they just fall under
the fingers with a uke.
And that's one of the reasons I know that a lot of these songs were written on it, because
if you play them on a uke, they do, it just kind of falls under the fingers, and you know
that it's right.
When I play it on stage, I don't have a pick-up in it, so I hold it very high, so that I can
sing into the mic and still [Abm] get the uke over and balance it between the thing.
The other thing about holding it high is that your strumming hand is level with the strings,
rather than at that kind of lower angle.
And somebody taught me this wonderful thing called a scissor movement.
This bloke, I bought a car [Em] off him in 1964, my very first E-type Jag, 2,000 pounds on
the road, and this bloke was the president of the George Formley Appreciation Society,
and I bought a banjo ukulele from him, and he used to give me some tips, and he said
George Formley used to do this scissor movement, and what it is, it's very simple, but it's
simple for me, I practise [Ab] it a lot, but it's this kind [F] of thing.
Bum bum diddly da diddly da diddly dum diddly [C] da diddly da diddly dum dum, that kind of
thing, and it's done like this, it's a single movement with a finger, [F] finger, thumb, finger,
finger, da da da da, da da da da, not, it's got to go flow.
[N]
And that is a very handy thing to learn, is that little scissor movement, you know, because
you can get these little riffs
Key:
C
E
G
F
A
C
E
G
_ _ _ _ Tuning one of these is like, it depends, because a lot of the old songs, right, some of which
we do in our show like that See You In My Dreams song, they're all written on the ukulele.
And if you get any of the old sheet music, look up in the top right hand corner, you'll
see these little tablature boxes.
And it says, tune uke.
And it tells you how to tune the uke.
You tune the uke specifically for the particular song that you're playing, right.
[F] So some have a C on the top, some, the general tuning is an A on the top.
And it works out a G on the bottom, so I think you've got an A and an E and a C and a G.
And it's like the first four strings on a guitar, but obviously a different key, because
the top string of a guitar is E.
But if you play a C shape on this, _ that is a concert F.
See, so if I played a C, you'd be an F. _
[Bb] _ [F] Right, so it's very loose, you can do it, you make it up as you go along really.
The great thing about the uke is it's dead easy to play.
Anybody can pick up a uke and play a couple of tunes easy in a day.
And they're very wonderful little instruments.
The problem with them was, I found that when I was a kid, you know, everyone had these
ukuleles, but they were so [E] cheap to buy that they got put into the toy bracket.
People considered they was a toy, you know, there wasn't a proper instrument, it was like
a miniature guitar, which in fact they [C] are, because it's the first four strings on a guitar.
Except this bottom string, which is an octave string, which is where you get these kind of sh**.
[E] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ [B] _ [C] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ [Cm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Abm] Great little [C] instrument, the ukulele. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [G] _
[C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ And [Gb] loads of songs [G] like that.
[C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [G] _ [G] _ _
[C] _ [E] _ [A] _ [Db] You [F] know, all those, Anybody See My Gal, and all them kind of tunes, they just fall under
the fingers with a uke.
And that's one of the reasons I know that a lot of these songs were written on it, because
if you play them on a uke, they do, it just kind of falls under the fingers, and you know
that it's right.
_ _ _ When I play it on stage, I don't have a pick-up in it, so I hold it very high, so that I can
sing into the mic and still [Abm] get the uke over and balance it between the thing.
The other thing about holding it high is that your strumming hand is level with the strings,
rather than at that kind of lower angle.
And somebody taught me this wonderful thing called a scissor movement.
This bloke, I bought a car [Em] off him in 1964, my very first E-type Jag, 2,000 pounds on
the road, and this bloke was the president of the George Formley Appreciation Society,
and I bought a banjo ukulele from him, and he used to give me some tips, and he said
George Formley used to do this scissor movement, and what it is, it's very simple, but it's
simple for me, I practise [Ab] it a lot, but it's this kind [F] of thing. _ _
Bum bum diddly da diddly da diddly dum diddly [C] da diddly da diddly dum dum, that kind of
thing, and it's done like this, it's a single movement with a finger, [F] finger, thumb, finger,
finger, da da da da, da da da da, _ not, it's got to go flow.
_ _ [N]
And that is a very handy thing to learn, is that little scissor movement, you know, because
you can get these little riffs
we do in our show like that See You In My Dreams song, they're all written on the ukulele.
And if you get any of the old sheet music, look up in the top right hand corner, you'll
see these little tablature boxes.
And it says, tune uke.
And it tells you how to tune the uke.
You tune the uke specifically for the particular song that you're playing, right.
[F] So some have a C on the top, some, the general tuning is an A on the top.
And it works out a G on the bottom, so I think you've got an A and an E and a C and a G.
And it's like the first four strings on a guitar, but obviously a different key, because
the top string of a guitar is E.
But if you play a C shape on this, _ that is a concert F.
See, so if I played a C, you'd be an F. _
[Bb] _ [F] Right, so it's very loose, you can do it, you make it up as you go along really.
The great thing about the uke is it's dead easy to play.
Anybody can pick up a uke and play a couple of tunes easy in a day.
And they're very wonderful little instruments.
The problem with them was, I found that when I was a kid, you know, everyone had these
ukuleles, but they were so [E] cheap to buy that they got put into the toy bracket.
People considered they was a toy, you know, there wasn't a proper instrument, it was like
a miniature guitar, which in fact they [C] are, because it's the first four strings on a guitar.
Except this bottom string, which is an octave string, which is where you get these kind of sh**.
[E] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ [C] _ [B] _ [C] _ _ [E] _
[A] _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [Em] _
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _ [Cm] _ [Eb] _ _
[Abm] Great little [C] instrument, the ukulele. _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ [Gb] _ _ [G] _
[C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ [E] _ [A] _ And [Gb] loads of songs [G] like that.
[C] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Gb] _ _ [G] _ [G] _ _
[C] _ [E] _ [A] _ [Db] You [F] know, all those, Anybody See My Gal, and all them kind of tunes, they just fall under
the fingers with a uke.
And that's one of the reasons I know that a lot of these songs were written on it, because
if you play them on a uke, they do, it just kind of falls under the fingers, and you know
that it's right.
_ _ _ When I play it on stage, I don't have a pick-up in it, so I hold it very high, so that I can
sing into the mic and still [Abm] get the uke over and balance it between the thing.
The other thing about holding it high is that your strumming hand is level with the strings,
rather than at that kind of lower angle.
And somebody taught me this wonderful thing called a scissor movement.
This bloke, I bought a car [Em] off him in 1964, my very first E-type Jag, 2,000 pounds on
the road, and this bloke was the president of the George Formley Appreciation Society,
and I bought a banjo ukulele from him, and he used to give me some tips, and he said
George Formley used to do this scissor movement, and what it is, it's very simple, but it's
simple for me, I practise [Ab] it a lot, but it's this kind [F] of thing. _ _
Bum bum diddly da diddly da diddly dum diddly [C] da diddly da diddly dum dum, that kind of
thing, and it's done like this, it's a single movement with a finger, [F] finger, thumb, finger,
finger, da da da da, da da da da, _ not, it's got to go flow.
_ _ [N]
And that is a very handy thing to learn, is that little scissor movement, you know, because
you can get these little riffs