The Austin Ukulele Society’s first virtual meeting of 2025 was a wonderful ‘bonus’ way to kick off our 15th(!) year! We love being part of the ukulele world! With over 165 attendees from nations including Germany, Brazil, Canada, Australia, the U.K., Jamaica, and Mexico – plus at least a dozen states of the U.S. – we truly felt the global ukulele spirit throughout the evening! 🙂

During this livestream event, we revisited the first Tin Pan Alley Medley we learned and recorded at an in-person meeting about 10 years ago. As many of you know, numerous tunes from the Tin Pan Alley era are ukulele classics, and our medley includes some of those: “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue,” “All of Me,” and “Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby.” We enjoyed learning to sing and strum these classic Tin Pan Alley hits every ukulele player should know! 💓

To kick things off, Bob shared some local ukulele news, including the upcoming Uke Stars event. He then led us through our warm up song, Bob Marley’s “Three Little Birds.”

Bob then gave us some background on our “Tin Pan Alley Medley No. 1” and played it through for us. He then took us through helpful exercises for learning how to play the chords and chord progressions, the strum pattern, the transitions, and more. He also gave a great presentation on the Circle of Fifths and how they relate to the Tin Pan Alley Medley. Thanks to you all for the fabulous feedback and valuable dialogue throughout!

We played the medley through a couple of times and sounded great! We then played Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” and spent a little more time in the meeting chat while we watched a few AUS videos together.

You can download the song sheet for the “Tin Pan Alley Medley” to play along, or download a copy of the presentation and instruction guide, including exercises and drills.

You can also watch a replay of the January 23 live stream. Watch the entire show or jump to the part you most want to see!

As always, we appreciate Lyda’s efforts to run the presentation and Jen’s to moderate the chat and convey questions over to Lyda and Bob!!

Thank you for joining us, sending in your selfies, and staying connected!

We look forward to being back with our friends from near and far online on Thursday, May 22. And we look forward to seeing our nearby friends at Uke Stars and the next in-person meeting on Thursday, February 13, at St. John’s United Methodist Church. Be well and keep strumming!  🙂

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