Thursday 31st August 2023 is the 5th Thursday of the month and also a full moon. Blue moon refers to the 2nd full moon of the month. 3 Chord Thursday has celebrated many moons since we began in April 2020, including a full moon session in August 2022 and in June 2021. Do you know the famous Chinese Mandarin love song The Moon Represents My Heart? Choose your best key and make your own song sheet HERE.
The Maui Fires of 8/8/2023 have sent huge shockwaves through our ukulele community. As a response from now on, we will play along to a Hawaiian song at the end of each 3 Chord Thursday session. For full moon, we will do “Hanalei Moon” which is about the full moon over Hanalei Bay, a beautiful spot on the island of Kaua’i. Participants are welcome to play the ukulele along to a video or do the hula. (Watch the hula videos here). Can you find a good version of this song for the ukulele to play along to? Here’s ONE.
The warm-up lesson at 3 pm EDT will be about finding the right key for your voice. Our example will be Blue Moon. Here’s a colorful 2-page song sheet from Len via Facebook.
There are many three chord songs but 3 Chord Thursday is not limited to 3 chords!! We always start with a warm up at 3 pm EDT followed by two poses for a group photo with our sunglasses and ukuleles. Then we announce our line-up. If there’s no request beforehand, we take impromptu requests and line them up. We aim to end an hour later at 4 pm EDT.
The Line Up
- Cajun Moon in Am [3] – Paul (GA) (3-page PDF) (play along video)
- Moonshadow in C [5] – Maureen (MA)
- The Moon Represents My Heart [6] – Henry (UK) (webpage of videos and play along videos)
- Georgia on My Mind in C [11] easy chords – Susan (MD) (1-page PDF)
- Blue Moon in A [8] – Anne (MA) (2-page PDF)
- Blue Moon in C [11] – Anne (MA) on piano
- Hanalei Moon in F [6] – Glenn (HI) (1-page PDF) (1-page PDF) (1-page PDF)
Don’t forget your sunglasses!
- Register in Zoom for the Zoom link.
- Request a song to perform in advance to get in the line-up.
- Sign up for the FREE Ukulele Enthusiast e-Blast