The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Beginner Tutorial with Riffs (Patreon)
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This is designed as a beginner lesson but the riffs and melody will keep intermediate players entertained, too. Today we are going to learn how to play The Lions Sleeps Tonight by the Tokens. This is a great first song to learn as it is just one chord progression, three chords, one strum pattern and it goes around and around for the entire song. In addition to be an a great first song for beginners to learn how to play this song has some fun things that more advanced players can play as well. That includes the melody, the intro riff, harmonizing the riff and playing the melody up an entire octave and harmonizing that as well. That means no matter what your level, a total beginner or a an experienced player there is something in this easy beginner ukulele tutorial for all levels.
Will Improve
- Beginner song repertoire
- 8th note strumming
- Playing melody in two places
- Harmonizing riffs and melody
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