If you can spend about 15 minutes per day building on what you already know, you’ll find yourself strumming famous ukulele songs in just a short amount of time. Playing your uke shouldn’t be one of them! So pick a song that appeals to you, take a look, and start to practice one chord at a time. So, don’t stress! Getting Started with Famous Songs for the Ukulele Many of these songs feature familiar chords – and in case you don’t know a certain chord yet, you’ll find that learning a famous tune eases the challenge of learning something new. The answer to this question depends on the song you choose. This list of 20 famous ukulele songs includes familiar favorites that are easy to play.

Ukulele Instructor Buy The Riptide Ukulele lesson for just $0.At some point, everyone finds themselves looking for fun songs to play.

At CS Ukulele Academy, our goal is to help bring the joy of performing music to everyone who wishes to play. Simple songs with easy chords are one of the many reasons that ukuleles are so appealing, allowing you to carry around an entertaining musical instrument that does not require years of study in order to start making music today. “Riptide” is a great song that’s fun and easy to play. The YouTube video now has almost reached 140,000,000 plays! Vance Joy took the encouragement of his close friends and went on to become a successful artist from the meager start of an unfinished song that eventually would take him to the top of the charts. It remained on Billboard’s Hot 100 for an amazing 43 weeks, the second longest charting single. “Riptide” ascended the charts in Australia, the United Kingdom, and in America, where it reached number one on the Alternative song list. Visit the song lesson page for a preview.

At Center Stage Ukulele Academy, we’ve prepared a complete video lesson for this song, including the sheet music with all the chords laid out to make it easy to learn to play. Maybe that’s why “ Riptide Ukulele Chords” is such a popular Internet search. The Riptide ukulele chords are A-, G, C, and Csus4. Vance took the unfinished song off the shelf, finished writing it and then recorded it with drummer Edwin White in an afternoon. It would not become a complete song until 2012 while he was writing material for his debut EP, God Loves You When You’re Dancing. Partially written and shelved in 2008 in Vance’s Melbourne Australia home, a snippet of “Riptide” was posted on Vance’s Facebook page resulting in lots of encouragement from friends and family to pursue his musical career. The song “Riptide”, by Vance Joy, is played primarily on the ukulele using only four easy to play chords.

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