Jingle Bells Ukulele Tutorial - 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the E...

This lesson is from our new book "21 Easy Ukulele Songs for Christmas" available soon on Amazon.com



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Written in Boston in 1857, this song is not only an American Christmas carol, but a distinctly New England one. Listening to the melody, you can almost hear the clop-clop of the horses' hooves and the ringing of sleigh bells. The composer, James S. Pierpont, wrote Jingle Bells for a Sunday school program, but the song's theme is secular, and in fact it's probably the first secular Christmas song composed in the U.S. Because sheet music versions often reference J. Pierpont as the author, the eighteenth-century Connecticut composer John Pierpont sometimes mistakenly gets credit for writing it. Even though doesn't contain a single reference to Christmas, "Jingle Bells" is probably the world's most popular Christmas song.

Since you probably know the melody very well, this is a great song to try learning to fingerpick the melody. Playing the chorus (“Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way”) is pretty easy because it stays in the first position.) Playing the verse (“Dashing through the snow) is a lot harder because of the necessary position shifts. Use the dots on the side of your ukulele’s fretboard to help you gauge the distances. Or only fingerpick the chorus and sing the verses.




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