Wednesday Ukestra

4 February 2026 with Mark

6pm-8pm

At The Cricketers Arms Hotel (Cooks Hill)

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.

Repertoire (print or download)

Set 1

1. 1. 1.  Dreaming My Dreams With You F   NEW
      2. The Galaxy Song  NEW
      3. Stumblin’ In  Stumblin-In-riffs.pdf
      4. Use Me – Bill Withers
      5.  Listening Wind – Talking Heads
      6.  Stuck in the Middle – G
      7. Whole-Lotta-Love-Led-Zeppelin-1969
      8. Door (The) – Teddy Swims
      9. heroes – David Bowie  new
      10. Kashmir   Kashmir hard riffs     and Kashmir easy riffs   NEW/OLD
      11. Alright – Supergrass    NEW Alright-riff-supergrass.pdf
      12. Sorry – The Easybeats

Set 2

1. 1. 1. 1. The Aeroplane Tim Minchin NEW
         2. In The Midnight-Hour.pdf   |||  In-the-Midnight-Hour-riffs.pdf   NEW
         3. If I could – John Prine   
         4. Time after time Cyndi Lauper NEW Time-after-Time-riffs.pdf
         5. Need you now – Lady A
         6. Just A Boy Angus and Julia Stone NEW
         7. Rita wrote a letter  NEW

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)

1. Lodi – CCR
2. I’m an old cowhand
3. Whispering Grass
4. You Get What You Give – New Radicals
5. Old Dutch – Bonny Light Horseman
6. Zac Bryan – I remember everything
7. C Jam Blues – Ukulele    |||  Sonny Moon-for-Two
8. Cow cow boogie
9. Follow Your Arrow – Kasey Musgraves
10.  If I could – John Prine
11. Hardest Part (The) – Olivia Dean
12. Stay – I missed you
13. Fairytale Of New York
14. Steer – Missy Higgins
15. Wish you well – Bernard Fanning
16. Crying
17. Smells like Teen Spirit
18. Scar – Missy Higgins

 

SCALES ETC.

1. C and D scale (inc blues scales)
2. C scale in thirds (much harder)
3. Ukulele Chord Forms
4. Chords up the Neck CAGFD
5. Purcell Canon with tab
6. Scales For Ukulele C And D
7. Circle of fifths – Woolly Mammoth 
8. Dorian Mode for the Ukulele
9. Chromatic Scale – Kauai Rainbow
10. Picking patterns for ukulele
11. Harmonic Minor Scales (fingers)
12. A chord chart of everything
13. Strumming Patterns
14. All the notes up the neck
15. Scales For Ukulele C And D      |        Circle of fifths – Woolly Mammoth    |      C Jam Blues – Ukulele     |         Blue Yodel No 6 – Jimmie Rodgers

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.