Ukulele — the early Years: Month Two.

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In the Beginning: In the Second Month

Camp Ukulele Start learning easy songs, including: Clementine Go Down, Moses Happy Trails Home on the Range The Lion Sleeps Tonight The Sloop John B. Take Me Out to the Ballgame This Land Is Your Land Waltzing Matilda You Are My Sunshine and many others. Includes a chord chart and a how-to-play section.

Some pals have been recommending I get a ukulele (a beginner soprano model).

Then Day Zero arrived and a Friend of a Friend gave his ukulele to me.

• Tuning For The Tone-Deaf
• The Santa Cruz Notation to describe the string to pluck and where to place your fret fingers when picking a tune.
• Month 1 of Ukulele
• Month 2 of Ukulele

Tuning For The Tone-Deaf

Tune To G - C - E - A Ginger Cats Eat Anything Good Cats Eat A lot

Month by Month
Month 2

Area	Accomplished
Exercises	Remember to check The Santa Cruz Notation to describe the string to pluck and where to place your fret fingers when picking a tune. C-scale C C0 D C2 E E0 F E1 G E3 A A0 B A2 C A3
More Chords	Already have: A Minor: G2-C0-E0-A0 [2000]. C Major: G0-C0-E0-A3 [0003]. C7: G0-C0-E0-A1 [0002] (only change from C Major is to have A1 (instead of A3)). F: G2-E1-E0-A0 [2100]. F Major: G2-C0-E1-A0 [2010]. G7: G0-C2-E1-A2 [0212]. Added: A7: G0-C1-E0-A0. D Minor: G2-C2-E1-A0. D Minor 7: G2-C2-E1-A2 (only change from D Minor is to have A2 (instead of A0)). G Major: G0-C2-E3-A2.
Songs	The Bear Went Over the Mountain Clementine Down in the Valley Go Down, Moses (From Month One) Happy Birthday To You He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Oh, Susanna (From Month One) On Top of Old Smoky/Spaghetti (From Month One) Simple Gifts (From Month One) You Are My Sunshine Check it out! Here is "Happy Birthday To You": C0 C0 C2 C0 C1 E0 C0 C0 C2 C0 E3(OR G0) E1 C0 C0 A3 A0 E1 E0 C2 A1 A1 A0 E1 E3(OR G0) E1 Check it out! Here is "On Top of Spaghetti": C0 C0 E0 E3(OR G0) A3 A0 A0 E1 E3(OR G0) A0 E3(OR G0) C0 C0 E0 E3(OR G0) E3 C2 E0 E1 E0 C2 C0
Speed	Start slowly, making sure that you have the easier chords (the ones with less than three fingers) solid. Then practice any chords that use more than two fingers. Practice transitions between the chords. Hum or sing a verse of the song slowly while strumming the chords; keep going is you mess up on one of the chords. Then return to each problem chord or problem transition, practicing for a few minutes to gain ability. Repeat the previous step a dozen times. Then repeat the previous step but significantly faster.
Grown-up music	Once you've got the C-scale, you know you can read the treble clef of any music. Aha! Check out the melody line for any of the above songs -- except you can't go lower than middle-C if you have the G - C - E - A (Ginger Cats Eat Anything) tuning.

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