Chords for OH DANNY BOY for UKULELE - UKULELE LESSON / TUTORIAL by "UKULELE MIKE"

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Hi, [Ab] Ukulele Mike here.
_ Londonderry Air [A] _
set to words, [Ab] Oh Danny Boy.
C [C] chord, _ _ _ [Db] we have a
[C] C seventh, _ _ _ we [F] have an F, _ _ _ _ _ we have an A [Am] minor, _ _ _ _ _ [G] G seventh. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] _ It's in the key of C, four four
time.
We're going to use the church lick [Bb] pattern [G] with this.
[C] _ [F] Down, [C] down, up, down, down, up. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh Danny Boy, _ _ the pipes, [Bb] the pipes are [F] calling. _ _ _
From glen to [C] _ [Am] glen and down the _ [D] _ mountainside.
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The [F] summer's [Am] gone _ and all the [F] flowers are [Am] dying. _ _
[F] It's you, it's [Am] you must go [G] and I [C] must
find you.
_ [E] But come [F] ye _ back when [C] summer's [Cm] in the [C] meadow. _
_ [D] Oh [C] when the _ _ [F] valley's hushed and
white with _ [G]
snow.
_ Tis [Eb] I'll be there in [F] sunshine or [C] in shadow.
_ _ [Dm] Oh Danny [C] Boy, Oh Danny Boy,
I love [F] you so.
[C] _ _ _ _ Now [F] this has some fairly quick chord changes in [Gb] it.
Like for instance there's
one that goes from a G seventh [Am] to an A minor.
[Eb] So I would [G] suggest [Db] whenever you come into
a place [Bb] in a song where you've got really rapid chord changes, take that one little
section [Dbm] and just isolate it and just loop it like this.
It goes C, [F] A minor, F.
Rather
G seventh rather.
G seventh, A minor, F.
[Cm] Those three chords happen [F] twice in the song very
quickly.
So what [C] you're doing by repetitively [Db] looping that pattern is you're [G] programming
muscle [F] memory into your fingers.
[Db] Another good way [D] to practice is forget the right [Gb] hand.
Don't strum.
Just go through the [Db] song with the left hand only.
And once [Ebm] again isolate
certain sections and just loop them over [C] and over again until you get comfortable with
the chord transitions.
Now another thing about chord [Eb] changes, when I go from a C to a C seventh,
no problem.
Just their single [Db] fingers.
But when I go to an F, I've got to put down two
fingers at the same time.
[G] And in [Bbm] the initial stages of learning to [D] play the uke, [Eb] most people
will put down [C] one finger and then the [F] other.
But [Eb] over a period of time of practice, repetitive
practice, daily [C] practice, you'll get used to just seeing the F, [Ab] you've got a plane going
on here, you'll get used to seeing [A] the F and just going right to it both [Ab] fingers at the
same time.
So you won't have to be [Cm] thinking middle finger, index finger.
And then when
you go to [A] a G seventh, well now look at this, [E] F goes to G seventh quite frequently in [G] a
lot of songs.
And look at the index [E] finger is the [Eb] same for both chords, F and [F] G seventh.
So why not leave it down?
I call that an anchor finger.
You leave it down [G] as you're pivoting
[Bm] over and getting your G seventh chord.
One of the rules in ukulele playing is [F] don't [Bb] move
your fingers unless you have to.
[C] Reduce the amount of [F] energy spent. _
_ [C] _ Happy strumming.
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