Ridge-Manor-Ukulele-Club-Songlist-Spring-2016
This does have the individual notes on how we play each song.
Spring Songlist
January 2016 Mid-Month East Pasco/Hernando Ukulele Club Meetup
Jan 18th is the next meetup in Ridge Manor.
The playlist that we will be working from is:
(Y = Yellow B = Blue HO = Handout or File copy)
- Jambalaya Y – 140 (C G7)
- Hey Good Lookin’ Y 108 or HO (C D7 G7 C7 F)
- Eight Days a Week HO (C D7 F Am G)
- There’s a Kind of Hush HO (4th section of club files) (C E7 Am C7 F G7 G Dm Fmaj7 G+)
- Ain’t Misbehavin’ Y – 15 (C Dm G7 C7 F Fm Am E7 A7 D7)
- All of Me. Y – 20 (F A7 D7 Gm7 Dm G7 C7 Bbm6 Am7b5)
- Blue Skies Y – 38 (Am E+ C D7 Fm G+ G7)
- Bye, Bye Blues Y – 38 (F C#7 Cm D7 G7 C7 Fdim Gm7)
- Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Y -68 (Needs work on chorus.) (G E7 A7 D7 G7 C Cm Gmaj7 C#m7b5 Bm7)
- Dream a Little Dream Of Me Y – 69 (D Bb7 A7 B7 Em7 C9 E7 Gm7 Bb F7)
- Five Foot Two Medley HO (First two songs; work on “Ain’t She Sweet” on our own.) (C E7 A7 D7 G7 C#dim Dm7 F9)
- OR Five Foot Two Y – 82
- Ain’t She Sweet Y -16 (C Ab7 G7 E7 A7 F7 Dm D7)
SUGGESTIONS For Group Consideration
- Me or Uke Blues HO — Newish One for Standard blues progression practice (A A7 D7 E7)
- No Moon At All B- 264 Highlights Dick’s Dec. insights into diminished chords (Am E7 Edim D Ddim C A7 D7 G7 Bb13 A13)
13th chords may be omitted.
Ukulele Finger Picking Workshop by Stuart Fuchs
Thursday night Dad and I went to a ukulele workshop hosted by the Tampa Bay Ukulele Society.
The topic was a finger picking beginners’ workshop.
I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to follow along and with practice I think I can actually become competent at this playing style. I thought I was forever destined to be a strummer.
Stuart Fuchs was a great teacher, funny and effective, and eventually wowed us all by showing his talent and technique with a short concert . His classical guitar roots were obvious.
The Ridge Manor Ukulele Club for Beginners restarts Thursday, Oct 22 at 5:00pm at the Activity Center
Everyone is invited. Everyone is a beginner so don’t be shy.
This is the list of songs that we ended last spring playing. This is a good starting point for this fall
Ridge Manor Ukulele Club Songlist Fall 2015
Known chords: C * G7 * F * C7
Kala U-Bass on loan from Zeb
Zeb hooked me up with the loan of his U-BASS bass ukulele by Kala for the winter.
(I am hoping to buy it from him later assuming he still wants to get rid of it for cash. Maybe at Christmas)
He changed out the original strings with thick black rubber strings. Not sure what brand, but they give it a unique sound and an interesting tactile experience while playing.
Now to learn if there is sheet music for a bass ukulele for the songs I want to play…
Ovation Applause soprano uke
Dad lent me this small travel ukulele for the summer, an Applause UAE20-A2 Soprano Uke by the Ovation guitar company.
It is an acoustic-electric, meaning it plays fine and sounds great with no power, but can also hook up to an amp for more sound.
It has a curved back (which was weird at first) and it didn’t have the edges I had gotten used to for holding in place against my body. It forced me to use and rely on the neck strap.
This is what I have been practicing on for the last few months. Great tone (when I hit the strings correctly), but the strings are so darn close together it is a struggle to fit my fingers in without overlapping non-intended strings and frets.
I guess that is what practice is for.
Anne Murray – Country Croonin’
– All songs in one book| Disc 1 | ||||
| Song Title | Credits | Link | Chords | |
| 1 | Help Me Make It Through the Night | Fred Foster / Kris Kristofferson |  |
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| 2 | Someday (You’ll Want Me to Want You) | Jimmie Hodges |  |
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| 3 | The End of the World | Sylvia Dee / Arthur Kent | |
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| 4 | Oh, Lonesome Me | Don Gibson | |
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| 5 | I Can’t Stop Loving You | Don Gibson | |
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| 6 | Me and Bobby McGee | Fred Foster / Fred L. Foster / Kris Kristofferson | 602 |
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| 7 | Can’t Help Falling in Love | Luigi Creatore / Hugo Peretti / George David Weiss | |
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| 8 | Let It Be Me | Gilbert Bécaud / Manny Curtis / Pierre Delanoë | |
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| 9 | Singing the Blues | Melvin Endsley | |
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| 10 | I Really Don’t Want to Know | Howard Barnes / Don Robertson | |
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| 11 | (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I | Bill Trader | |
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| 12 | Always on My Mind | Johnny Christopher / Mark James / Wayne Carson Thompson | 62 |
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| 13 | (‘Til) I Kissed You | Don Everly | |
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| 14 | Loving Arms | Tom Jans | |
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| 15 | Are You Lonesome Tonight? | Lou Handman / Roy Turk | |
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| 1 | Make the World Go Away | Hank Cochran | |
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| 2 | Anytime | Herbert “Happy” Lawson | |
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| 3 | You Don’t Know Me | Eddy Arnold / Cindy Walker | |
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| 4 | Bye, Bye Love | Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant | |
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| 5 | Vaya Con Dios (May God Be with You) | Inez James / Buddy Pepper / Bert Russell / Larry Russell | |
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| 6 | Take These Chains from My Heart | Hy Heath / Fred Rose | |
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| 7 | For the Good Times | Kris Kristofferson | |
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| 8 | Sea of Heartbreak | Hal David / Paul Hampton | |
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| 9 | She’ll Have to Go | J.I. Allison | 376 |
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| 10 | I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)/I’m a Fool to Care | Al J. Neiburg | / |
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| 11 | Blue, Blue Day | Don Gibson | |
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| 12 | That’s the Way Love Goes | Lefty Frizzell / Whitey Shafer | |
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| 13 | I Fall to Pieces | Hank Cochran / Harlan Howard | |
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| 14 | All I Have to Do Is Dream | Boudleaux Bryant / Felice Bryant | |
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| 15 | Tennessee Waltz | Pee Wee King / Redd Stewart | |
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$5 yard sale find
I picked up a beat up old ukulele at a yard sale this week for $5.
It is exactly what I had pictured a ukulele should look like before I started playing, and saw all of the high quality crafted instruments out there. Cheaply made, bad tourist paint job, questionable sound quality.
The only major issue is that it was missing the neck nut (the white piece near the top that hold the strings above the fretboard and apart from each other)
Amazon Prime came to the rescue, and after ordering a replacement nut and saddle set made of bone for $4.95, I waited 6 weeks for the part to arrive.
Once it arrived it was a matter of 5 minutes of repair with Gorilla Glue and I had a fully playable ukulele.
It sounds about as good as you would expect for a $5 uke, but I like it and at least it is decorative.
Lyle Lovett – The Road To Ensenada
| Song Title | Credits | Link | Chords | |
| 1 | Don’t Touch My Hat | Lyle Lovett |
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| 2 | Her First Mistake | Lyle Lovett |
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| 3 | Fiona | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 4 | That’s Right (You’re Not from Texas) | Lyle Lovett / Willis Alan Ramsey / Alison Rogers | |
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| 5 | Who Loves You Better | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 6 | Private Conversation | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 7 | Promises | Lyle Lovett |
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| 8 | It Ought to Be Easier | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 9 | I Can’t Love You Anymore | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 10 | Long Tall Texan | Henry Strzelecki | |
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| 11 | Christmas Morning | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 12 | The Road to Ensenada | Lyle Lovett | |
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| 13 | The Girl in the Corner | Lyle Lovett | |
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April 9, 2015 Gathering
Homework
Songs played
A few pics of the group
Chords
- G
- G7
- C7
- F
- Am
- D7