Wednesday Ukestra

30 September 2026

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.

1. Everytime You Cry
2. Buzzcut Season – Lorde      |||||  Riffs In Em And G
3. I_Will_Follow_You_Into_The_Dark.pdf
4. The-Door-Teddy-Swims
5. Hoochie Coochie Man     |||   Hoochie-Coochie-riff
6. Paradiso.pdf
7. Gold-On-The-Ceiling.pdf
8. Two_Out_Of_Three_Aint_Bad
9. Folsom-Prison-Blues.pdf      Crescent-City-Blues-.pdf
10. You_Aint_Goin_Nowhere_G.pdf        You_Aint_Goin_Nowhere-in-F.pdf
11. You-Really-Got-Me.pdf
12. Believe-Cher.pdf
13. Lonely_Boy_Black_Keys_Em.pdf      Lonely-Boy-Riffs.pdf
14. Psycho-Killer.pdf
15. Opportunity_Pete_Murray.pdf
16. Morning-Time
17. Long-Monday.pdf
18. ThePartingGlass.pdf
19. look-at-miss-ohio.pdf
20. On Broadway
21. I will always love you – with the Whitney key change.pdf
22. You Never Can Tell – Chuck Berry    |||    You Never Can Tell Riffs Melody

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.

 

 

 

 

The Request Session (13/5/26)

Yes, I think the Request Session will be once a month. At this session YOU make a request, from our existing files. If you are a regular, then you should know the link to those files. So make a request either before (by email), or during the session. And because we are now projecting the music (no more printouts), and because most people are on some sort of device, it is easy to pick and choose at the time.