A blog to help with learning and teaching Guitar, Ukulele, Bass Guitar and Piano. Written by Theo Lawrence / TL Music Books.
Each year I usually end up tweaking my Christmas music a bit for my lessons and we tend to do a few Christmas songs like this in the primary schools I teach at. For the older students I might teach them something more advanced but this is still quite fun to play through and is a good sight reading challenge at the least.
This is also available for Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums and C instrument melody. Just follow the link below.
In this post we have lots of free PDFs for this song, including melody, chords, fingerpicking and fingerstyle. You can find more like this in my ebook Easy Songs in the Public Domain for Fingerstyle Ukulele.
Uke-Fingerpicking_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Uke-Thumb-Pinch-Finger-Pattern_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Uke-Fingerstyle_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Uke-Chords_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Uke-Melody_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Uke-Melody-and-chords_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
These melody arrangements should also work for Violin, Sax, Clarinet and Flute.
Violin_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Alto Sax_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Clarinet_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Flute_Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
These 2 ukulele chord exercises are featured in the book 50 Ukulele Chord Exercises
On this chords exercise sheet, we will be working with four chords: Em7, Edim7, F and Fadd9.
Whilst we don’t usually play diminished chords at beginners level, this one is not very difficult because it is an open chord, and all you do is move the Em7 shape down one fret, from frets 2 to frets 1 with both fingers.
Counting:
1+2+3+4
moving from F to Fadd9 is an esay change on ukulele; take your 2nd finger off to move from F to Fadd9. Incase you were wondering what an add9 chord is, it’s a full major chord with an added major 2nd or major 9th note added (major 9th and major 2nd are the same notes, but major 9th is an octave higher.
Counting:
1 2 3 4
These 2 ukulele chord exercises are featured in the book 50 Ukulele Chord Exercises
On this chords exercise sheet, we will be working with three chords: A, A7 and Dsus2.
The first strum is worth 2 beats. You can see that the note is not coloured in and it has a stem, so that makes it a minim, worth 2 beats (also known as a half note because it lasts for half of the bar). This is followed by two cotchets, which are 1 beat each. Here is the counting that you should use for this exercise (strumming on the parts in bold font).
1 2 3 4
The rhythm for this exercise is almost the same as exercise 7. All we do is add an up strum after beat 3. Here is the counting that you can use to help:
1 2 3 + 4
These 2 ukulele chord exercises are featured in the book 50 Ukulele Chord Exercises
Here are 2 beginners ukulele chord exercises using C, am and F chords. On this sheet, we start to work on strumming rhythms. Exercise 5 uses C and Am chords and the rhythm is down up down up down down. Exercise 6 uses F and Am chords and the rhythm is down down up down down. On the video I show you how to practice these using a metronome. You could use this sheet and follow this video for a quick 10 minute lesson on practicing the C, Am and F chords, which are fundamental to learn and practice on the ukulele.
Here are 2 beginners ukulele chord exercises using A7, A, C and Cmaj7. There are very simple rhythms in each exercise. Use the video below to help you with knowing how to count them.
Here we have 2 ukulele chord exercises for beginners. The first exercise has single strums, lasting for 4 beats, and the second exercise has 2 strums per chord, each lasting for 2 beats.
These exercises are designed to be very easy for ukulele beginners. The chords are Cmaj7, Am7 and Am. Watch the video below for help with counting and playing the chords.
Here is a quick 1-2 mins warm up for you to try at the start of your ukulele practice.
You will play a D major scale, then 2 D major arpeggios, then 2 different D chords. Then you will repeat this until you have played it 4 times around.
This book was written following my first two books (released as a set), 100 Beginners Chord Progressions + 100 Strumming Rhythms.
Either book could be started first, but I tend to start with this one, and then burn through the 100 chord progressions a lot quicker following this book.
I started out writing this book in order to solve two problems I found in the first book of chord progressions – which were mainly problems for early beginners. The first problem was that by the time we got through all 4 chords, sometimes it had taken a while to change between chords and we lost the flow of the exercise. The second problem was that the new beginners were not familiar with the chords yet, so we had 2 books and a chord sheet to look at. The third problem was that for young beginners, some struggled to remember the rhythms and therefore got lost flicking between the books, rather than remembering the rhythm and then just looking at the chord progression book.
So, this book aims to solve all of the problems in the above paragraph for basic beginners level, by having the chord diagram and rhythm and tab all in one place and also only focuses on 2 chords at a time so the player can really master those chord changes.
The book includes a lot of new content not seen in the first two books, like finger picking exercises and different time signatures. Therefore those who have started with the first books, could also go through this book afterwards and still feel like they are progressing.
In conclusion, I think this book is best to start with out of the 2 releases so far. The overall aim is to improve those chord changes and build up your rhythm and finger picking skills, preparing you to be able to play songs, to help you progress in general, and it to give you some new concepts for constructing your own music.
I hope you find the book useful.
Theo Lawrence
www.tlmusiclessons.com
These 10 chord progressions in D minor are from my premium ebooks, 100 chord progressions for guitar and 100 chord progressions for ukulele ebooks.
The first sheet is for guitar, and the second for ukulele. They can be played together. Some of the chords are slightly different so that they are easier to play on each instrument – most of the chords are exactly the same on each sheet.
The Sheet:
The Chords Reference Sheet:
The Sheet:
The Chords Reference Sheet:
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