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Hey UUers!
The summer has come and passed & we're now headed headlong into fall! September is here and with it, a brand new episode of Uke Lessons - this time it's Green Day's "Good Riddance" (aka "Time of Your Life). It's a pretty simple one, with an easy picking pattern that you can play throughout the song, so try it out and have fun with it!
Special THANKS to UU's own UCB, who helped us out with some last minute videos that really made the Play-Along awesome. If you haven't seen Green Day's original music video for "Good Riddance", watch it first (and you'll understand why the Play-Along was done the way it was :D). For more crazy ukulele videos from the UCB, check out their channel: www.youtube.com/ukecrazybitches.
Also, registration just opened for Aldrine's first ever Seminar on Ukulele Underground University called "How to Figure out Songs on the Ukulele"! More info coming soon, but if you'd like to save your spot already, CLICK HERE!
No live lesson today because Aldrine is in California for the next week - be sure to check out "Good Riddance" and keep a busy uke until he gets back! Hope your Wednesday is wonderful.
Aloha,
-UU Staff
Thanks! Great song! Can’t wait to try it on my uke!!
I’m new to this and to the ukulele, and Aldrine’s lessons sure seem personal to me. I nailed the ‘play along’ piece right away, but I’ll need some time to think ‘G’ when playing the guitar position ‘D’ and transpose on the fly. My son wants to play this at an upcoming UU Church event, and I’m ready already.
This is probably my favorite song to play. Thanks Aldrine 🙂
p.s. yes i’m holding a chicken in my picture ;D
you’re good at what you do I’ll give you that (despite the goofy outakes haha)
i love how you teach finger picking, cos I always get surprised when I suddenly startig picking the tune :L xx
this is going to be my second piece playing ukelele! thanks!!!
Can u guys Rate comment and Subscribe. We just started making videos.
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Been stuck for the past two months in the land of little internet unable to watch videos. Been looking forward to watching these ever since I joined. They are even better than I expected.
Thanks.
Thanks for the Cool! song
and the nice lesson
You guys are good. Keep up the great lessons.
What’s da bes website to go for da kine baritone vids and tab sheet music for free?
I just got a baritone uke from Ana’Ole ukulele and wanna learn songs on the baritone. Will you make video learning with the baritone?
I had literally JUST finished writing this out in my songbook when this video hit.
Freaky. Good tutorial, Professor Guerrero!
I like this one, reasonably do-able with a little practice and recognisable even with my poor skill. One question, why was the Em chord shown in the intro but not used in the song?
Dude, thankyou sooo much !
I absolutely love this song !
FIRST. and did u read my mind or something? Cuz i wanted this to be the next lesson! hahaha