How often do you get a date such as 2/22/22? Once in a lifetime. (Note: We already missed the first opportunity on 2/2/22 which was world ukulele day.) How often does it fall on a Tuesday? How often do we get to do two chord songs?
Let’s show up in Zoom with our ukuleles or other instruments and do two chord songs at 2 PM EST. At precisely 2:22:22 PM EST we will unmute and say slowly in as unison as possible “Two Chord Songs!”
DRESS CODE: Wear two colors!
We will begin with two warm-up exercises.
There’s NO LINE-UP. If you want to lead a two-chord song, please have the URL of your song sheet ready to put in the CHAT.
This is a new initiative: IMPROMPTU PROMPT
Warm Up
We will begin with two warm-up exercises.
Warm-up #1: two-finger chords (in the diagram above)
Warm-up #2: Circle of Fifths I-V7-I cadence
Two chords songs fall into at least the following categories. Can you think of others?
Nursery Rhymes
- Farmer in the Dell
- Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush
- Hush Little Baby
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- London Bridge is Falling Down
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me
- Skip to My Lou
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Three Blind Mice
Pop Songs
- Achy Breaky Heart – Sherri (OR)
- Banana Boat Song (Day O) – Anne (MA)
- Copperhead Road
- Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
- Doggie in the Window
- Eleanor Rigby
- He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Iko Iko
- Jambalaya
- Lord of the Dance (Simple Gifts)
- My Darling Clementine
- Okie From Muskogee
- Paperback Writer
- Streets of Laredo
- Tom Dooley
- Tulsa Time – Bruce (MI)
- Uptown Funk
- Waltz Across Texas
- You Never Can Tell
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Interested in taking a music class in Zoom in April 2022? Complete this CLASS INTEREST FORM to help schedule the class so you can take it — and receive a new warm-up exercise you can use daily.