Wednesday Ukestra 30 April 2025

6pm-8pm

At The Cricketers Arms Hotel (Cooks Hill) with Mark.

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. Mark will select from these songs, but in no way will we EVER get through all of these songs in a session. Depending upon who shows up, Mark will bespokely tailor the set list to try to meet the needs of every single person who shows up. (Well, some of them). Each song is just an opportunity to practise some sort of skill, chord progression, or riff. Remember, single thumb strums are next to godliness.

List from which we will select the Repertoire for the evening (print or download)

1. Wake me up when September ends
2. No milk today
3. You’re the best thing
4. Not Responsible – Helen Shapiro
5. Gentle on my mind
6. Ferry cross the Mersey
7. Golden Brown
8. Take It To The Limit    |  Take It to the limit – riff
9. River Deep Mountain High
10.  24 hours from Tulsa
11. Fade into you – Mazzy Star
12. Young Folks – Peter Bjorn and John  – but the youtube is here.
13. What A Wonderful World – AJ’s Version
14.  Stick Season – Noah Kahan
15.  Young at Heart – Frank Sinatra – Doctor Uke
16. Pocahontas – Neil Young
17. The Parting Glass
18. Some Days Are Diamonds – John Denver
19. Somebody-That-I-Used-To-Know  |      Somebody That I Used To Know Riff UPDATED
20. Just A Gigolo
21. Weather with you – Crowded House
22. White Flag – Dido
23. Miss You – Rolling Stones – Am
24. Opportunity – Pete Murray
25. Like a Rolling Stone
26. Build Me Up Buttercup
27. Long Monday – John Prine
28. Look at Miss Ohio
29. Nobody Know You when you’re down and out 
30. Miss Aleta’s Blues    Miss Celie’s Blues (from The Color Purple)  |   Blues Run And Vamp
31. Is you is or is you ain’t my baby – Jims
32. Let Her Go        Let-Her-Go-riff.pdf
33. River – Joni Mitchell    River-JONI-MiTCHELL-intro-outro-riff.pdf

National Folk Festival Performance Repertoire

1. Common People – Pulp – Bec’s version NEW  Common-People-riff.pdf NEW
2. Hold Back The River – James Bay        Hold Back The River riffs
3. Heroes_David_Bowie    Heroes-riffs.pdf
4. Gold on the Ceiling and Gold on the Ceiling riffs
5. No Surprises – Radiohead
6. EmmyLou by First Aid Kit
7. Booster Seat – Spacey Jane  and Booster Seat Riffs
8. How Bizarre – OMC      Descending C For How Bizarre

SCALES ETC.

1. C and D scale (inc blues scales)
2.  C scale in thirds (much harder)
3. Purcell Canon with tab
4. Scales For Ukulele C And D
5. Circle of fifths – Woolly Mammoth 
6. Dorian Mode for the Ukulele
7. Chromatic Scale – Kauai Rainbow
8. Picking patterns for ukulele
9. Harmonic Minor Scales (fingers)
10. A chord chart of everything
11. Strumming Patterns
12. All the notes up the neck

Here are Song Suggestions from across the Ukestras

Payment

Most Ukestrans pay through the very affordable ‘Uketen’. Details on that are here.

If you don’t yet want to commit to a uketen, you can pay a casual fee of $22 cash on the day.