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 then another two rounds on C – and then we start again (C x 2, Am x 2, F x 1, G x 1, C x 2) and do that for the whole song.