This week was a bit of a challenging week for me personally so I chose to practice the popular song, “Don’t Worry be Happy”by Bobby McFerrin. This is a song that I taught my young ukulele kiddos a couple of years ago. It is SUPER simple and involves only one simple chord progression with 3 chords: G, Am, C. I played the song with a capo on the 4th fret. This is how the song was originally played and it definitely suits my voice much better than if I was playing it without a capo. I used my earbuds to have a metronome of 120 in the background. This helped me to keep time while I played without all of you having to hear the annoying “click” sound! Feel free to sing a-long with me while I play;)
To learn this song I used the Ultimate Guitar website. I use this website ALL the time because you can transpose the song easily at the bottom of the page. This saves me a LOT of time and effort! Additionally, it has the autoscroll feature which allows me to play through the song with ease (I do not have to stop and scroll down). This website has chords for almost all of the songs I have ever wanted to play, so if you are looking for chords for a song I highly recommend checking it out.
https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/bobby-mcferrin/dont-worry-be-happy-chords-675763
I think that my next goal is to play a bit of a more complex song. So far I have kept it pretty straight forward.
Teagan! You’re awesome and this is amazing. You’ve progressed so quickly on your guitar journey and I really wish I had the musical ability to do that. Also, I love this song and I would love to go see one of your ukelele performances if I have the chance. Do you have plans to get into some guitar picking too? Or have you already mastered that too? “Blackbird” by The Beatles is one of my favourite acoustic songs 🙂
Hi Yireh,
Thank you so much:) I am having such a fun time learning the guitar. I have done a bit of picking this far….. I picked Happy Birthday using a guitar tab. This was a new skill for me, as I had never used a guitar tab before. I also played a harmonic scale piece based off of a song I had done on ukulele. Unfortunately, I struggled to upload this video, but I do have an audio recording on my laptop:)