Posts by Stephanie Sims

Here’s the video tutorial for the first of our Bowie Workshops – Rebel Rebel. The tutorial runs through each of the different ‘parts’ to the song – the strum, the riffs and the picking patterns. And don’t forget, you can always just do four down strums on each chord the whole way through and that…

This is a delicious, cruisey song by the Kinks that makes for a rollicking good ukulele song. There is the classic intro ‘walk’ which Shelly has created into a wonderful riff that features throughout the song. There are some really cool chord progressions – this song if FUN FUN FUN! Can’t wait to play it…

When I think of the song, Valerie, I think of Amy Winehouse – but it was actually written by Dave McCabe of the Zutons a year before she made it famous. Whoever wrote it – it’s a great song. For this tutorial, we have a cheeky strum pattern, some tricky chords, and a cool (and…

This is a classic song by Talking Heads which starts with a majestic acapella opening – for which the wonderful Rosalind has created four-part harmonies (click on the Audio Files below – and note the Soprano doubles with the Tenor – for music download Song Sheet 2). We’re in the key of E so I…