It’s pretty clear to hear this when you listen to Iz play it, and although he’s playing low G, it works just as well on a ukulele strung with a high G. Notice that the first beat isn’t actually a strum at all though, what I’m doing is plucking the G string with my thumb at the start of each bar. The pattern I like to play is a slight variation on the good old fashioned D DU UDU and looks something like this… Ok here we go. There are a few ways to interpret the strumming pattern on this one and you can get away with just strumming DUDUDUDU throughout but we’re going to go a little bit beyond that in this lesson. Here are the chord boxes for you to get to grips with… If E minor is causing you problems then you can simply play a G chord and drop your pinkie finger onto the 4th fret of the C string. ![]() Probably the most difficult to deal with are the E minor and the E7. Seven chords will see you through the song (co-incidentally the same number as colours in a rainbow) and whilst that is a few to remember they’re really not that difficult and some of you will be very pleased to hear that there are no barre chords in the mix. ![]() Just the 290 million views to date for this one, not too bad at all. At it’s heart it’s a pretty simple song but it’s worth investing some time on really perfecting the strumming pattern to get an authentic sound. ![]() ![]() The song is so beautifully played and sung that pretty much everyone that owns a ukulele will naturally gravitate towards it at some point. If you’ve ever read my about page I said I wouldn’t do it on Ukulele Go but here I am showing I’m a man with absolutely no principles. Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s beautiful version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow is one of the most popular ukulele songs of all time.
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