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With more than one way to play any chord, chord diagrams are not shown with most charts – only the chord name is shown.
For players that already know several voicings for any chord, just play what you already now. For players that don't know a particular chord, there are example chords to play each song available by selecting the "Chords" tab above.
Use these songs to explore a variety of ways to play chords for any particular song.
Common Keys: Em
First Melodic Interval: Root ↓ m2
The Sailor's Hornpipe (also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad) is a traditional hornpipe melody.
The tune was played in the animated Popeye cartoons beginning in the 1930s, usually as the first part of the opening credits theme, which then segued into an instrumental of "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man".
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This song, in its simplest form can be played with four or five chords. G, A, C, D,and D7
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Fingerings are not shown. Any fingering would only be a recommended fingering and not mandatory. For many chords there are alternate fingerings, with any particular fingering dependent how the chord is being used in relationship to its previous chord and the next chord.
A guide to reading a `ukulele chord diagram is available right here on my site.
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Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
Seventh chords, Major Sevenths, Minor Sevenths, Diminished, Augmented chords sus and add chords.
Tunings: C with low or high G - (GCEA or gCEA).
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60321-000-3 Published: March 2007 Pages 44
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All arrangements should be used as a guideline for harmonizing a melody. This is just one way to play a particular song.
Sailor's Hornpipe is an instrumental so there are NO lyrics.
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Exploring Jazz Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
Building a Solid Jazz Chord Foundation using Seventh, Major Seventh, Major 6, Minor Seventh, Minor Sixth, Diminished Seventh, Minor Seventh Flat Five and Augmented Seventh chords.
Songs include: All of Me, All of Me - Variation, Autumn Leaves, All the Things You Are, Days of Wine and Roses, There Will Never Be Another You, Back Home In Indiana, Someday My Prince Will Come, Have You Met Miss Jones, Summer Samba, Sweet Georgia Brown, Sweet Georgia Brown - Variation, Yesterday, and It’s Only A Paper Moon
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