Thursday, April 1, 2010

Ukulele lesson: Happy Birthday To You with ukulele tabs

In this little ukulele lesson you will learn to play Happy Birthday To You on ukulele with tablature notation. The three lines represent the first three strings on your ukulele. The top line is the string is the bottom string when you play. The numbers tell you which fret to press down. 0 means that you play the string without pressing down a fret:

-----------------------------3-0-------1-1-0-------
---------1-0---------3-1---------1-0---------1-3-1-
-0-0-2-0-----0-0-2-0-----0-0---------2-------------

When you play the ukulele tabs and press down the frets with your left hand fingers it is a good habit to use your index to press down the notes on the first fret, the middle finger for the second fret and your ring finger for the notes on the third fret!