How to Play "The Star-Spangled Banner" on Ukulele

With Fourth of July approaching, we thought we’d feature “The Star Spangled Banner” ukulele tutorial. You’ll have about a couple of weeks to play along and practice the song. And you’ll also see Jenny teach more about this on her Facebook live lesson later this week. 

Jenny chose to sing and play the song in the key of F which is a fairly comfortable key for a woman to sing it. “The Star-Spangled Banner”, the national anthem of the USA, has a very large range of an octave and a fifth. And so you have to pick a key that works for your voice.

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Ukulele Tutorial for "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music"

Let’s play along to this easy ukulele tutorial for “My Favorite Things” from the musical and film “The Sound of Music”!

We’ll need nine chords for “My Favorite Things” ukulele tutorial. And these are: Em, Cmaj7, Am, D7, G, C, B7, A and A7.

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"As Time Goes By" Ukulele Tutorial

This week, we get to learn one of the best movie songs with the following As Time Goes By ukulele tutorial. As Time Goes By is an enduring and nostalgic song from the 1942 movie Casablanca.

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For this As Time Goes By ukulele tutorial, you’ll need to know or learn a lot of ukulele chord shapes – eleven in total. But the chord changes are pretty easy. Plus the strumming pattern is also easy, D-DU-UDU (D-down, U-up).

The chords are: Am, D7, Dm, G, G6, A7, Cm7, E7, C#dim, Em, G#dim.

Some tips on how to make these chord shapes are given by Jenny on the video. Read more here. 

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning Easy Ukulele Tutorial

Today, let’s learn how to play the song “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning!” from the musical “Oklahoma” with our easy ukulele tutorial!

Like the rest of our tutorial videos here at ukulele.io, this video contains the lyrics, chords, strumming pattern and melody tab on screen.

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In this Oh, What a Beautiful Morning ukulele tutorial, you will be using a total of 8 chords.  Although you might think 8 chords are a handful, most of them are very familiar.

These chords are: C, G7, Am, Fm, Gdim, Fsus4, F#dim, D7

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