UKULELE WORKOUTS
Get in shape with our weekly ukulele workouts! Quick and easy to master workouts including riffs, hooks, strumming and picking patterns that will get you playing like a pro.
Arranged by our team of School fo Uke tutors and Duke of Uke visiting artists.
R.E.M.
Ukulele Workout
Losing My Religion by R.E.M. Try this 'harder than it looks' classic pop riff!
Great for: Combining strumming and fingerpicking.
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Shum
Ukulele Workout
2021 Eurovision song from Ukraine, Shum by Go_A.
Official Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7-dxzp6Jvs
Eurovision 2021 Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqvzDkgok_g
In solidarity with the Ukrainian people and in support of their incredible bravery and courage! Play along to the chords or have a go at our fingerstyle arrangement. Start slow and gradually speed up to the end. Poco a poco accelerando al fine!
Great for: Building up strumming and fast fingerpicking.
Level: Beginner - Advanced
Sweet Home Alabama
Ukulele Workout
Lynyrd Skynyrd's Classic Country Rock riff.
Great for: Your first go at fingerpicking and fretboard slides.
Level: Beginner
It Must Be Love
Ukulele Workout
A classic pop Love Song by Labbi Siffre, and covered by Madness.
Great for: Combining a simple bassline with chords and introduction to half barre chord shapes.
Level: Beginner
Computer Love
Ukulele Workout
Kraftwerk's retro futuristic classic arranged for ukulele.
Great for: Re-entrant fingerpicking.
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Get Back
Ukulele Workout
Learn the Beatles 'Get Back' solo for ukulele.
Great for: Blues and Major Pentatonic licks and bends.
Level: Intermediate
Agua De Beber
Ukulele Workout
A Bossa Nova Jazz standard composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim.
Great for: Bossa fingerstyle and 7th Chords.
Level: Intermediate - Advanced