Two Chord Songs on Tuesday 2/22/22 at 2 PM EST

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.

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Warm-up Exercises #1 Two-finger chords (one finger at a time)

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

Start with F – C7 – F calypso strum and end with cha cha cha

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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Just a snippet of this one hour session in Zoom

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.

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