Ukulele
Improvise on open strings:
G C E A
G C E A
and experiment with finger-picking along with this backing track. Each fret moves the tone a half-step higher. Listen and create phrases that give space for the accompaniment to shine. Enjoy your creativity, make it "new" each time.
Here's a way to celebrate birthdays!!!
The Gordon School Song
... aka Ode to Joy, from Symphony No.9 in D minor, by Ludwig van Beethoven
Use the "chuck" strum on this song!
UDU chuck
And read about alternate fingerings for the D7 chord in the description.
Try writing your own lyrics!
Blowin’ in the Wind, by Bob Dylan
C F C
How many roads must a man walk down
C F G
Be-fore you can call him a man?
C F C
Yes’n how many seas must a white dove sail
F G
Be-fore she can sleep in the sand?
C F C
Yes’n how many times must the cannon balls fly
F G
Be-fore they are forever banned?
F G7 C Am
The answer my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.
F G7 C
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
C F C
How many times must a person look up
F G
Be-fore they can see the sky?
C F C
Yes’n how many ears must one person have
F G
Be-fore they can hear people cry?
C F C
Yes’n how many deaths will it take till they know
F G
That too many people have died? (refrain)
C F C
How many years can a mountain exist
F G
Be-fore it is washed to the sea?
C F C
Yes’n how many years can some people exist
F G
Be-fore they’re al-lowed to be free?
C F C
Yes’n how many times can we all turn our heads
F G
Pre-tending we just don’t see? (refrain)
VERSE 1
REFRAIN
VERSE 2
play REFRAIN again
VERSE 3
play REFRAIN again
America the Beautiful
By Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)
Music by Samuel Augustus Howe (1847-1903)
See chord charts above for: C, F, G, and G7.
Use one of the D7 options (to the right).
Modified D7
use fingers 1 and 2
C G G7 C
Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain,
C G D7 G G7
For purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain.
C G G7 C
America! America! God shed his grace on thee.
F C F G7 C
And crown thy good with personhood, from sea to shining sea.
2. O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
3. O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
4. O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
