Category: Final

In the past when I have learned songs on the ukulele, I have always found memorizing the chords to be a lot more challenging than memorizing the lyrics. With lyrics, I find that memorizing them comes easily to me when I listen to the lyrics being sung many times. With chords however, I can’t memorize how to play the chords just by listening to a song on repeat. This means that memorizing chords will take a lot longer for me than lyrics.

Going into memorizing the chords, I began this process by practicing until I had the finger formations for all of the chords memorized. So for example, before learning this song, I would not be able to just play an A# because I had no idea which of my fingers would need to be on which strings and which frets. After practicing, I am now able to look at the chords that are in the song and automatically know where my fingers go.

My next step in memorization was memorizing the order of the chords as well as when to change chords. To accomplish this, I practiced section by section. I would not move on to the next section until I had the last one memorized. I also would start from the beginning again after getting a couple of the sections completely memorized. I found that memorizing the chords got easier as I went through the song because many of the chords repeat.