Members of the Austin Ukulele Society warmly embraced the opportunity to meet on Valentine’s Day, since more than a few of us have sometimes asked our beloved ukuleles to be our Valentine. 🙂 The meeting kicked off with introductions, announcements of ukulele shows and jams and our always uplifting warmup song, Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds.” Next, Bob G. played through, by way of demonstrating his arrangement, our appropriately romantic song to learn for Valentine’s Day – the timeless classic “Can’t Help Falling In Love.” He then guided us through some very helpful exercises to get comfortable with the chord progressions, strumming patterns, picking options and vocal harmonies. When we played through the song a couple of times, the group was sounding lovely. We played it through a few more times and recorded it to share with our loving ukulele community around the globe. Check it out:

To play along with us, you can download the lyrics and chords for our arrangement of “Can’t Help Falling In Love” or download a copy of the presentation and instruction guide (what we project on the screen for all to follow along, including exercises and drills).

 
We took a break to enjoy the fantastic open mic portion of the eve, in which John and Sue, Peter (with John), Kit and Jack, Jay, and Vince all played songs full of love, joy and companionship.

We look forward to our next meeting, on March 14th (Pi Day!), and we hope you all join us again! 🙂

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To kick off its 9th year, the Austin Ukulele Society was thrilled to welcome the biggest crowd of ukulele players we’ve seen yet, as we came close to nearly 200 attendees at last Thursday’s meeting! We started off with ukulele announcements and introductions, and we warmed up our voices and fingers by singing and strumming Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds.” Bob G. demonstrated his arrangement of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” and we couldn’t help but sing along with him on this infectiously catchy classic. Bob took us through some helpful exercises and drills on the chord progressions, strumming techniques and vocal harmonizing options. We put it all together and truly enjoyed playing and singing “Sweet Caroline” before recording it to share with our YouTube ukulele community around the world. We hope you enjoy it!

To play along with us, you can download the lyrics and chords for our arrangement of “Sweet Caroline” or download a copy of the presentation and instruction guide (what we project on the screen for all to follow along, including exercises and drills).

 
Betty, Jay, Richard and Kaya treated us to a terrific variety of solo performances during the open mic portion of the evening. Special thanks to each of them! (And speaking of open mics, plan to attend our Ukulele Open Mic Happy Hour at Kick Butt Coffee on Saturday 2/16!)

Clockwise from top left: Betty, Richard, Kaya and Jay

As always, we look forward to seeing you at our next meeting, on Thursday, February 14th, 7:00-9:00pm. We also hope you’ll plan to attend our Ukulele Open Mic Happy Hour at Kick Butt Coffee on Saturday 2/16! 🙂

For more downloadable music, visit our Ukulele Music Library. For more Austin Ukulele Society videos, check out our YouTube Channel.

Contact Us if you have any questions or would like to be added to our mailing list!

If you don’t already follow this website, why not take a moment to click on the “Follow Austin Ukulele Society” button? We’d really appreciate it! It’s in the right margin, just under the “Like us on Facebook” button and looks just like this: .

By following our website, you’ll always be kept up-to-date with the latest meeting announcements and other Austin Ukulele Society news. Thank you so much!