Play Hundreds of Ukulele Songs With Just 4 Chords. It still amazes me that the title of this post holds true. Chord charts and diagrams pdf printable for Guitar, Dobro, Banjo, Mandolin, Fiddle, Piano bass guitar and Ukulele also music theory, chord conversion and playing hints. You can play hundreds if not thousands of songs using just 4 chords on your ukulele. Read on to find out which chords, why it works and see a list of songsThe Chords theyre all easyI guess the first thing you want to know is what those chords are. Well let me start by saying the relationship between the chords is I, V, Vi and IV. The members of Freescores. Please log in or create an account so you can leave your comment. Discover how to make music on the ukulele even if youve never played an instrument in your life with the free Learn To Play Ukulele Today video lesson course. How to Play Ukulele eBooks arent just ebooks, you get PDF file with printfriendly version Mp3 samples of the songs youll learn Individual Tab and Chord files. FAQ. Q What the chuff is an ebook A Its a book you read on your computer and can print out at home. To read them you need Adobe Reader which you can download free. If that doesnt mean much to you, dont worry. In the key of C that gives us C, G, Am and F. Try playing through those chords a few times, almost immediately youll start to hear songs you know as you play. Change the order and youll start to recognise even more. Try some different strumming patterns get some help with strumming here with those chords and see if you can hear anything you recognise. Axis Of Awesome. This is probably best shown with the rather brilliant 4 Chords video by Axis Of Awesome. If youve not seen it already where have you been hiding take a few minutes to watch it now. I was pretty blown away when I first watched that video which I think most people were, hence its massive popularity. Heres the list of songs they manage to get through using just 4 chordsThe Song List. Journey Dont Stop BelievingJames Blunt Youre BeautifulBlack Eyed Peas Where Is the LoveAlphaville Forever YoungJason Mraz Im YoursTrain Hey Soul SisterThe Calling Wherever You Will GoElton John Can You Feel The Love Tonight from The Lion KingAkon Dont MatterJohn Denver Take Me Home, Country RoadsLady Gaga PaparazziU2 With Or Without YouThe Last Goodnight Pictures of YouMaroon Five She Will Be LovedThe Beatles Let It BeBob Marley No Woman No CryMarcy Playground Sex and CandyMen At Work Land Down UnderTheme from Americas Funniest Home Videos. Jack Johnson TaylorSpice Girls Two Become OneA Ha Take On MeGreen Day When I Come AroundEagle Eye Cherry Save TonightToto AfricaBeyonce If I Were A BoyKelly Clarkson Behind These Hazel EyesJason De. Rulo In My HeadThe Smashing Pumpkins Bullet With Butterfly WingsJoan Osborne One Of UsAvril Lavigne ComplicatedThe Offspring Self EsteemThe Offspring Youre Gonna Go Far KidAkon BeautifulTimberland featuring One. Republic ApologizeEminem featuring Rihanna Love the Way You LieBon Jovi Its My LifeLady Gaga PokerfaceAqua Barbie GirlRed Hot Chili Peppers OthersideThe Gregory Brothers Double RainbowMGMT KidsAndrea Bocelli Time To Say GoodbyeRobert Burns Auld Lang SyneFive for fighting SupermanThe Axis of Awesome BirdplaneMissy Higgins ScarOk that might be only 4. I did say hundreds but Axis Of Awesome had to stop somewhere otherwise their video would have gone on for hours. Pc Game Iso Torrent. The truth is there are loads more to go at. Even just noodling around with those chords for a while youre likely to find a few new ones. Why do so many songs use the same chords Technically all of the songs listed above dont use the same chords. How To Play Blues Ukulele Pdf Tabs' title='How To Play Blues Ukulele Pdf Tabs' />They use the same relationship between chords. Axis of Awesome simply transposed all of the songs so they could play them using the same 4 chords and theyre completely recogniseable. Its the relationship between those chords thats the important bit. Ultimately its pretty simple, this combination of chords works incredibly well together. Theres just something that is pleasing to our ears about those chords and that keeps musicians coming back time and time again. The thing that amazes me about it though is that songs can sound so different despite being based on the same formula. Its a chord combination that crosses genres too as youll see from the list of songs above. Whats The Strumming Pattern No doubt some of you reading this will want a definitive strumming pattern for this one. As most of the songs that Axis Of Awesome play are backed by a piano theres no exact strumming pattern but if you really want some help on this, you could watch this rather brilliant TED video where Josh Kaufman has a crack at the 4 chord song on a ukeIve set the video to play from the point that Josh starts playing but the whole video is worth a watch if youre interested in learning. For the record, it looks like Josh is play the good old fashioned D DU UDU which looks like thisIf you need some help getting to grips with this rhythm  check out my post on the most important strumming pattern youll ever learn. As I always say though, just use it as a guide. If youre trying to play 4. For some more strumming pattern inspiration take a look at my post 3. A Different Key. Although Axis of Awesome play the songs using E B Cm and A. Those chords can be transposed into a completely different key as long as we retain the relationship. In the key of G for example the chords would be G, D, Em and C. Try it now using those chords instead, can you still recognise the songsHopefully your song repertoire has just increased considerably Strum Like A Pro. If you really want to progress your strumming at a rapid rate then Id highly recommend taking a look at Al Woods downloadable ebook How To Play Ukulele Strums. For just 1. 2 you get an in depth guide showing you how to play 4. MP3 files. Theres also a really useful section that focuses on counting strums the easy way something I wish I had when I was learning to play. Buy How To Play Ukulele Strums.