Posts by UkoOno

Stand By Me is the perfect song for practicing the Island Strum. It uses our classic 4 chords (C, Am, F, G – and in that order) and it sounds beautiful. In this song we do two rounds of Island on C, two rounds on Am, one round on F, one round on G and…

This is the all time favourite song at our Aged Care performances and such an easy song to learn. Here’s a runthrough for you to play along with.

Here’s a runthrough of ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’ for you to play along with – using the ‘this and that and’ strum.

I Will Survive is a very wordy song – but it uses the most beautiful chords and chord progression that runs through the whole song – so I suggest you download the music below – and just focus on the chords (and not look at the words initially). Once you have the chord progression down…

Let’s head on down to Nashville for the Tennessee Waltz! This is a golden oldie in the classic Waltz 3/4 time (one-two-three, one-two-three) providing another strumming style for our kit bag. It’s been covered by many people, made most famous in the 50s by Patti Page – and we’re going to give it a real…

Here’s a runthrough of The Candy Man for you to play along with.

I’ve prepared three videos for Satellite of Love – a gorgeous song by Lou Reed, but my inspiration for this arrangement is from the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – see the original video at bottom of page. I originally made the first two videos – Video 1 being a run through of the song;…