By request from many subscribers, we now bring you White Christmas by Bing Crosby ukulele tutorial. Bing Crosby recorded this Irving Berlin song in 1942. He made it popular and a perennial number 1 song in the charts. Aside from being one of the most recorded Christmas songs, White Christmas is also considered the best-selling single of all time.
Firstly, Jenny presents a sing and strum or what others call a play along version. In addition, she shows how to fingerpick the melody on the second part. Read more here.
We here at ukulele.io present you a tutorial on how to play Arirang on ukulele and we think it’s pretty easy to learn for two reasons. First, the song uses just four chords: C, Am, F and G7. Second, the strum is a simple down-down-down flow with three strums per measure.
Read more here to download a copy of the lead sheet and follow the video tutorial. Also, learn more trivia about this beautiful song that unites a divided nation.
Here’s a couple of reasons why you should learn how to play “Ain’t She Sweet” on the ukulele.
First of all, “Ain’t She Sweet” is a classic song that’s popular since the 1920s. Learning it adds a historic song on your list of ukulele songs.
In addition, many famous artists have performed it including the Fab Four themselves. The Beatles have performed it many times as a group including a ukulele rendition in 1995.
See the video tutorial here.
Jenny gives some lessons on how to play “Ain’t She Sweet” on the ukulele in the above video.
Rather than play a standard ukulele, she uses a banjolele that sounds real cool and goes really well with the song. A banjolele looks like a banjo but is tuned like a ukulele.
Read more here.
We conducted a poll in December on which song you'd like to have ukulele lessons on and "City of Stars" was one of the top two songs so here comes the video tutorial for this melancholic and poetic song from the movie La La Land!
Check out more about the chords, strums and the ukulele tutorial for City of Stars in this video.
“City of stars” was composed for the Oscar winning movie called “La La Land” starring Ryan Gosling opposite Emma Stone.
The song was originally intended to be sung by Stone’s character Mia,... Read more here.
If you’re looking for an additional ukulele Christmas song to add to your usual “Jingle Bells” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” list, check our “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” ukulele video tutorial. Start practicing and you’ll have it nailed in time for Christmas! Also join our poll on the video on which pop song you’d like ukulele lessons on.
We worked on this ukulele tutorial for “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire” or more popularly called “The Christmas Song” because it would be a great addition to the usual Christmas songs we have like “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” or “Silent Night” and “Jingle Bells”.
It’s interesting to learn that the inspiration for “The Christmas Song” was initiated during a scorching summer in 1945. You’d think that a song for a winter holiday would be naturally inspired by the season itself or related ideas to it. But according to the ones who wrote the song, it just started as some scribbles on a spiral pad describing the coldness of winter as a way to cool off on one summer day.
Bob Wells had a few lines written about winter and Christmas but was not actually intending them for a song and left them lying on his piano. Mel Tormé found these writings, added music and more lyrics to it and this meaningful and reminiscent holiday song was born. With its thoughtful lyrics and relaxed melody, it does bring good cheer and Christmas spirit to “kids from one to ninety-two.”
Nat King Cole with his guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Johnny Miller first recorded the song in June 1946 but this version was not released until 1989. Their second recording in August 1946, which included a String Choir, was released in November of the same year as “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)”. Various recordings of the song had been released over the years including performances from Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Justin Bieber, Paul McCartney and many, many others.
