Find the chords & lyrics for ‘Octopus’s Garden’ here. There are four chords, but with a little practise it is easy to play. The chords are C, Am, F & G7.
To get an idea of how the song sounds take a look at the video in this post.
To view our other videos visit our YouTube channel ukulele 4 kids.
View our other song chords page.
Let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy playing it.
The Kapiti Primary School Senior Ukulele group perform Octopus’s Garden by The Beatles. Take a look and leave a positive comment.
At Kapiti Primary School in New Zealand we have two ukulele groups, a junior and senior one. Three teachers work together to teach the junior group, they are Ms Neave, Mrs Eaton and Mrs Nolan. They work with the junior group two lunchtimes a week. Below is a photo of the junior group.
The senior group is taught by Mr Madge (author of this site). He works with the senior group on a Tuesday lunchtime, Wednesday lunchtime with the advanced players and after school on a Thursday. We have been using the Uke ‘n play ukulele for Kids book and CD by Mike Jackson. After two weeks of lessons the beginners in the group can play the C and F chords and five songs! The advanced members of the group are working their way through Uncle Rod’s Ukulele Boot Camp resource. Below is a photo of the senior group.
I’d like to start by saying thank you to all the visitors to ukulele4kids.com, there were several thousand. This large number of visitors is great, considering the website only went live in October. The large number of visitors is also very motivating to continue developing the site. I’ve many new ideas to add to the site in 2012 to help it keep growing, and continue to encourage kids of all ages to start or continue playing the ukulele. You may have missed some of the posts, but there are several ways you can keep up to date with the posts of ukulele4kids.com. You could look through the archives, subscribe via email on our home page, follow us through Facebook, or keep up to date via Twitter. Below are the five most viewed posts of ukulele4kids.com during 2011, with Rudolph taking out the number one spot.
Haere Mai (welcome) to 2012 from Ukulele 4 Kids from New Zealand. Find the chords & lyrics for ‘Haere Mai’ here. There are a five chords, but it is easy to play. The chords are A, C, D, D7, G.
To get an idea of how the song sounds take a look at the video in this post.
To view our other videos visit our YouTube channel ukulele 4 kids.
View our other song chords page.
I hope you enjoy playing it and have a successful 2012 for strumming your ukulele!
Recently I was looking for ukulele images and instead came across ukulele personas for Firefox Internet browsers. A Firefox persona customizes your Internet browser at the top as in the picture below.
It doesn’t affect its performance in anyway, just makes it more interesting and specific to your interest of playing the ukulele.
There are a few personas you could choose from, a selection are shown below.
The instructions to change your Firefox persona are easy to follow to . Try this link to view available Firefox Personas.
If you have the right software you can even create your own persona. I don’t, so I couldn’t tell you how to create them.
So go ahead and personalise your Internet browser. I’d be impressed and happy if someone made a funky Firefox persona for ukulele4kids.com now there is a challenge – any one up to it?
What do you get a ukulele player for Christmas that isn’t a ukulele? Answer – a download of ‘Song-sheet Generator’. It’s closely related to the program Chord Pro. I recently came across this super FREE little program that allows you to write down your songs, add chord diagrams, and produce songbooks. It’s available for download for both PC and Mac computers, and makes use of programs like notepad (PC) and TextEdit (Mac) both programs usually come free with your computer.
Song-sheet Generator’s main focus is the guitar but it also offers the facility to add chords for the ukulele too. It has a lot of chord shapes for the guitar already formatted, but for the ukulele you have to custom create your own. It’s not difficult to do, allowing you to create alternative fingering diagrams too. There is a online help guide, but I found it more helpful to copy it into a Word document to print. You can highlight the chorus in songs, and add the chord diagrams to a song-sheet. You can produce your song-sheet in a variety of ways, for instance, plain text or HTML files.
Here are a couple of examples of song sheets made using song-sheet generator:
‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ & ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer’.
In summary:
Enjoy your Christmas and may Santa and Rudolph bring you the new ukulele you have on your list.
In response to the post I wrote about ukuleles at my son’s day care centre, I received a message from Doug Frink, a ukulele player from the USA. He shared with me a YouTube video he’d made about some ladybugs (ladybirds in NZ) on his property. My first impressions were favourable, but I needed an expert opinion. So I asked my son who is three years old, what he thought. He sat and watched engaged by the ladybugs on the screen and recognised a ukulele being played too. Good enough kid’s endorsement for me.
About the song and video that Doug wrote and filmed he shares, “I shot the footage at my property in the Sierra Nevada foothills, about 45 minutes NE of Marysville, California, USA. The ladybugs seem to gather every year in pretty much the exact same place. I think they may be getting ready for hibernation. They disperse sometime in the spring, but they seem to remain in the general vicinity throughout the summer. Sometimes on warm days the air is full of them fluttering around….it seemed like the ukulele and ladybugs would be a good mix, I’m pleased with how it turned out.”
Did you know, the entire life cycle of the ladybug is only 4 – 7 weeks. Starting the cycle as in the diagram below:
You can watch Doug’s video ‘Ladybug Philosophy’ here. Lyrics and chords coming soon.
Picture: Ladybird cycle from Animal Corner
Find the chords & lyrics for ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ here There are a few chords, but with a little practise it is easy to play. The chords are C, F, G7, Am, C7, G & D7.
To get an idea of how the song sounds take a look at the video in this post.
To view our other videos visit our YouTube channel ukulele 4 kids.
View our other song chords page.
Let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy playing it.
Find the lyrics and chords to Rudolph here. It is easy to play, and uses the chords C, D7, F & G7.
To get an idea of how the song sounds take a look at the video in this post.
To view our other videos visit our YouTube channel ukulele 4 kids.
View our other song chords page.
Let me know what you think, and I hope you enjoy playing it.
Ukulele 4 Kids 