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The Sum of the Parts (music)

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Thursday Repertoire – 5 February 2026

with Mark (7-9pm)

A celebration of the Shields variety

Carrington Bowling Club

All of our ukestras are designed to be welcoming and forgiving for people new to the ukulele. You won’t always get everything, but given time, self forgiveness, resilience, a sense of humour and a love of, and curiosity for, music, then you’ll be fine.

Don’t be scared, don’t rehearse unnecessarily. The set lists are designed to introduce new songs, riffs and musical ideas in amongst good ‘ol singalong songs.  But remember, each song is really just an opportunity to practise some sort of skill, chord progression, or riff. And single chord thumb strums are next to godliness.

For the Pleasure and Selection of Jane Shields

Jane gets to choose one (presumably with some lobbying), then we have to do a BMUF song. etc….

      1. EmmyLou by First Aid Kit
      2. Love Really Hurts Without You
      3. I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
      4. Echo Beach
      5. Heavy Heart – Tim Rogers
      6. Eternal Flame – The Bangles
      7.  Closer to fine – Indigo Girls
      8.  Under the milky way
      9. Never Tear Us Apart – INXS – Scorpex
      10. Babylon – David Gray
      11. Yellow
      12. Don’t Change
      13. Careless Whisper – George Michael
      14. Heaven Must be There – Eurogliders
      15. Xanadu
      16. Blame it on the Boogie – The Jacksons
      17. Baker Street – Gerry Rafferty
      18. Love is in the air – JPY
      19. Wuthering Heights – Leshen

      To Resume Next Week

      1. Stumblin’ In  Stumblin-In-riffs.pdf
      2. Listening Wind – Talking Heads
      3. Stuck in the Middle – G
      4. Door (The) – Teddy Swims
      1. Kashmir   Kashmir hard riffs     and Kashmir easy riffs   NEW/OLD
      2. Whole-Lotta-Love-Led-Zeppelin-1969

      Set Two

          1. Alright – Supergrass    NEW Alright-riff-supergrass.pdf
          2. Sorry – The Easybeats
          3. Just a Boy Angus and Julia Stone
          5. Time after time Cyndi Lauper Time-after-Time-riffs.pdf
          6. Banana-Pancakes   | Banana Pancakes riffs in 12/8    |   Banana Pancakes riffs in 4/4
          7. Use Me – Bill Withers   || Use-Me-riff-Bill-Withers-.pdf 
          8. Birds of a feather

      Spares

      (only considered upon the receipt of a congenial and collaborative request and we’ll have to ditch one of the songs above as a consequence)

      Singalongs

        1. Boa Sorte    |||  Boa Sorte Picking Patterns
        2. You Get What You Give – New Radicals
        3. Anyone Else But You
        4. Scar – Missy Higgins
        5. C Jam Blues – Ukulele    |||  Sonny Moon-for-Two
        6. Smells like Teen Spirit
        7. 22 By Lily Allen
        8. Hey Ya (3 bars of 4/4, 1 bar of 2/4, 2 bars of 4/4)
        9. Babylon – David Gray
        10. Yellow
        11. The Only Way is Up
        12. Pink Pony Club

      Spares that require more time and focus (we’ll probably get to it over coming weeks)

      1. Someday – The Strokes
      2. Steer – Missy Higgins
      3. Murder on the Dance Floor
      4. Wish you well – Bernard Fanning
      5. Back in love
      6. Tequila      |||  Tequila Rap
      7. Here Comes Your Man – Pixies

      And just in case there are some beginnerie types.

      1. Runaround Sue 
      2. Rhiannon 

      Pack up songs

      1. Wagon-Wheel-Old-Crow-Medicine-Show
      2. Never Tear Us Apart – INXS – Scorpex
      3. Sister Golden Hair
      4. One Day – Matisyahu
      5. There is a Light That Never Goes Out -The Smiths 
      6. Truck all those perfect people – Chip Taylor

      Resources and Theory

      1. C and D scale (inc blues scales)
      2. C scale (easy)
      3. C scale in thirds (much harder)
      4. Scales For Ukulele C And D / Purcell Canon with tab/
      5. Circle of fifths – Woolly Mammoth 
      6. Dorian Mode for the Ukulele
      7. Chromatic Scale – Kauai Rainbow
      8. Blues Run And Vamp
      9. Picking patterns for ukulele
      10. Harmonic Minor Scales (fingers)
      11. Ukulele Chord Forms
      12. Chords up the Neck CAGFD

       

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