The Morristown Uke Jam is an actual group of people that meet every Wednesday to play ukulele. -- We also have lots of nifty ukulele song sheets and songbooks you can download. -- To top it off, we have a video for each of those songs, so you can learn by playing along! (Plus a tutorial on the song's eccentricities.)
For our web page go to meetup.com/MorristownUkeJam -- Or go straight to our song files: tinyurl.com/MUJ-Official-Files
For the ukulele blog on our Facebook page go to facebook.com/MorristownUkeJam
Yup - I played guitar for decades, so the low-G tuning seems most natural for my fingerpicking; and also has a nice full sound. I play with a high-G when I'm playing island songs or Tin Pan Alley songs. Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
I do love this song too - it was one of my sister's favorites back in the 1980s when she was leading worship with the St. Louis Jesuits! The song sheets for all of our arrangements are linked in the video descriptions, so you can get to them all easily. Here's the link to this one: www.dropbox.com/s/s50awffkfurc19n/Be%20Not%20Afraid%20%28St.%20Louis%20Jesuits%29.pdf?dl=0 Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
@@MorristownUkeJam you’re the best! Thank you for sharing this information. I appreciate it so much 💕🌸🌿I’m self taught and having the best time singing with my ukulele. I’m a horrible singer and wouldn’t inflict myself on anyone else but I’m having a blast. Ukulele is just for me.
That's awesome - I'm self-taught too, back from the olden days when I just had to figure it out! (Guess that helped it get easier over the years!) If you go to our Dropbox there's an SRB directory that might be good for you; it has a handful of things designed for Stark Raving Beginners that I made for first-time-player workshops. And also, if you like this song you can check out our playlists of other worship songs. (Just search in RU-vid for "MUJ Worship Playlist". And... there are many additional Hebrew worship songs in the Jewish/Hebrew playlists... Thanks for the encouragement. Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
Gosh, what kind words! I actually played guitar for decades - and I was... OKAY. (Not really good, just okay.) Then I switched to ukulele 20 years ago when my son started taking an interest, and I found I could immediately play with so much more style! Since then I've been non-stop ukulele... and my son now runs his own music school. So it turned out pretty great for both of us. Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
Wonderful You sure have the panache to sing & play this song. It brought me back to my own "the days" when I was young & first heard this song on the radio.
The chords (and lyrics, and strumming tips) to each of our songs are found in a full-color songsheet linked in the video description. Here's the link to this one: www.dropbox.com/s/zqy18nnviymf7xv/Wake%20Up%20Little%20Susie%20%28The%20Everly%20Brothers%29.pdf?dl=0 Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
this one made me happy! Why not have fun!! We all take ourselves too seriously... Good seeing you enjoying.. & kindly sharing the spirit and fun of uke playing. Cheers!! I gotta find more fun songs like this.
Dear MUJ Thank you for the nice arrangement of the fun song. However, as more and more of us play the U bass, may I suggest you add a part for this instrument too? In the video you have a very nice chap playing the bass. I would like to know more on how he approaches this part of the song. Cheers Mort, Denmark
Huh, that's something I've never thought of! And you're right, the Ubass is certainly becoming more popular. I doubt we'll add that as a regular feature, since we're really all about doing as little work as possible. (Less work, more play!) But for songs where the bass plays a critical role, I'll try to remember that. Thanks for the suggestion! Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
Most of our songs are part of songbooks, and the songbooks are linked in the video descriptions. (Take a look!) Here's a link to this one: www.tinyurl.com/MUJ-Morning-Songbook Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
Yeah, adding them on the screen would be helpful... but lots of work. Instead we make the song sheets available as a free download so you can follow along - - - AND take it with you later to play without the video! Punchline: GOOD SUGGESTION. But I don't think we'll ever want to work that hard. We provide the song sheet instead. Have fun playing! ------------------------- Marco
