Learn Easy Ukulele Chord Melody Today!
Online Video Course with Printables
Available Nov. 22 – Dec. 15, 2023
You CAN play easy full-sounding music
Chord melody is playing both the melody and the chords on your ukulele at the same time. It is beautiful and full sounding.
Maybe you’ve seen other people playing chord melody and thought, “Wow, that is really cool! I wish I could do that but it’s probably too hard for me.”
Now you can! Our course “Learn Easy Ukulele Chord Melody Today!” will teach you everything you need to know.
Learn to play chords and melody at the same time.
Don't want to sing? This is the perfect course for you.
Over 30 brand new videos.
Hear performances on two different ukuleles.
Includes lesson and performance videos for each song.
All the information you need to start playing chord melody now.
Learn to play music that is rich and exciting
If you’re at an intermediate level, it’s very doable to play melody and chords at the same time.
We’ve created a brand new course to give you everything you need to know to get started playing chord melody at an easy level. If you can play the songs in our books, you can learn easy ukulele chord melody with our new course.
What is chord melody?
Chord melody is the art of playing both the melody and the harmony at the same time in a ukulele arrangement. It sounds beautiful, full and rich.
What is melody?
Melody is what you sing, or notes that come one after the other. Melody is one note at a time.
What is harmony?
Harmony is everything else except the melody. It is the chords and the rhythmic back-up of the melody. You can think of it as the guitar, bass and drums in a rock band or the “ooo-s” the backup singers sing behind the lead singer. It is music that supports the melody. Ukulele chord melody is an arrangement of a song that combines both melody and harmony into one part.
Experience the joy of creativity and self-expression.
Regular Course 5 Songs
- You’ll learn
- • what is chord melody
- • how to read tab notation
- • right hand techniques for chord melody
- • left hand techniques for chord melody
- • how chord melody is notated
- • practice tips for learning chord melody
- • High G vs. Low G tuning and how it affects chord melody playing and arranging.
- The course includes a downloadable printable PDF of all five songs plus melody tab for each song. You get access to over 30 video lessons presenting the songs and how to play them.
- Songs included:
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
- Video Minutes: 53 minutes (26 videos)
- Each song includes a both melody tab version and a chord melody version. This helps you in your learning. You can break down the song into its different parts as you learn it.
Premium Course 7 Songs
- You’ll learn
- • what is chord melody
- • how to read tab notation
- • right hand techniques for chord melody
- • left hand techniques for chord melody
- • how chord melody is notated
- • practice tips for learning chord melody
- • High G vs. Low G tuning and how it affects chord melody playing and arranging.
- The course includes a downloadable printable PDF of all seven songs plus melody tab for each song. You get access to over 30 video lessons presenting the songs and how to play them.
- Songs included:
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
- Silent Night
- Down in the Valley
- Video Minutes: 66 minutes (34 videos)
- Each song includes a both melody tab version and a chord melody version. This helps you in your learning. You can break down the song into its different parts as you learn it.
Please note that the PDF does not include the video course.
Learn with Jenny Peters
You’ll be learning easy ukulele chord melody from Jenny Peters, a Grammy-nominated music educator in the Chicago area.
Jenny developed her unique beginner-friendly method of teaching ukulele when she learned to play in order to include ukulele in her fourth grade General Music classes. She has gone on to become a popular YouTube ukulele personality who owns seven different kinds of ukuleles!
Jenny and her sister Rebecca are authors of a series of bestselling beginning ukulele books, including 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way , 21 Easy Ukulele Songs for Christmas, and Ukulele for All.
The Illinois Music Educators Association has invited Jenny to do presentations on how to teach ukulele, and she is a member of the National Association for Music Education (NaFME), the American String Teachers Association (ASTA) and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP.)
Here’s a sample of what you’ll see and learn
Here’s Jenny playing her chord melody arrangement of “Jingle Bells.” You can hear how she’s playing both the familiar tune and other notes to make the tune sound fuller and well, more cool : )
This performance video with Jenny playing her tenor uke is one of two for “Jingle Bells Chord Melody”. You can also watch her play the arrangement on a concert ukulele with High G tuning. And there are two lesson videos for each song in the course.
When you download and print out your course PDF you’ll be able to follow along in the sheet music as Jenny plays the chord melody arrangements in the videos.
Here's what you get when you sign up for 3 Free Goodies
Goodie 1
Scale Melody Plus Five- a video and pdf that shows you how to move your hand up the neck of the ukulele to play melodies that are above the 5th fret.
Goodie 2
C Major Arpeggiation Etude-Fingerpicking Study. This study shows you different ways of fingerpicking an accompaniment using the beautiful chords from Pachelbel’s “Canon in D.”
Goodie 3
Free Sheet music to Jingle Bells Chord Melody, which is one of the songs in the course. This sheet music comes with 4 videos.
- Low G Lesson
- Low G Performance
- High G Lesson
- High G Performance
Experience the joy of creativity and self-expression.
Regular Course 5 Songs
- You’ll learn
- • what is chord melody
- • how to read tab notation
- • right hand techniques for chord melody
- • left hand techniques for chord melody
- • how chord melody is notated
- • practice tips for learning chord melody
- • High G vs. Low G tuning and how it affects chord melody playing and arranging.
- The course includes a downloadable printable PDF of all five songs plus melody tab for each song. You get access to over 30 video lessons presenting the songs and how to play them.
- Songs included:
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
- Video Minutes: 53 minutes (26 videos)
- Each song includes a both melody tab version and a chord melody version. This helps you in your learning. You can break down the song into its different parts as you learn it.
Premium Course 7 Songs
- You’ll learn
- • what is chord melody
- • how to read tab notation
- • right hand techniques for chord melody
- • left hand techniques for chord melody
- • how chord melody is notated
- • practice tips for learning chord melody
- • High G vs. Low G tuning and how it affects chord melody playing and arranging.
- The course includes a downloadable printable PDF of all seven songs plus melody tab for each song. You get access to over 30 video lessons presenting the songs and how to play them.
- Songs included:
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
- Silent Night
- Down in the Valley
- Video Minutes: 66 minutes (34 videos)
- Each song includes a both melody tab version and a chord melody version. This helps you in your learning. You can break down the song into its different parts as you learn it.
Click here to buy the eBook Bundle.
Please note that the eBook Bundle and physical book do not include the video course.
Here’s what you’ll learn in the first part of this course:
First you’ll learn about some of the basic music concepts you need to know to understand chord melody. Like, what is a melody? what is an accompaniment? what is a chord?
Then you’ll learn some of the special right hand and left hand techniques you need to play chord melody. Since you’ll be playing more notes at once than with standard sing and strum arrangements, you’ll need some new skills. But don’t worry, it will be easy for you to learn with the clear step-by-step instruction and over 30 detailed video lessons in this course.
All the chord melody arrangements are notated in tab, which is like a roadmap of which strings to play and which frets to stop with your left hand. Don’t know how to read tab? There’s a special section in the course where you can learn everything you need to know about how to read tab.
Finally, you’ll learn some killer step by step techniques for learning how to play these beautiful ukulele tunes.
What’s next: 5 great sounding easy Chord Melody Arrangements
The heart of the Basic Course is five carefully selected and arranged tunes to help you learn how to play chord melody.
- Oh, When the Saints
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
You’ll hear two performances of each song, one on a High G tuned ukulele and one on a Low G tuned ukulele. You’ll also get two lesson videos for each song in the course with tips from Jenny on how to play the songs on both High and Low G tuned ukuleles.
Have fun filling your home with new versions of seasonal music. Or play some chord melody as an instrumental solo in the middle of a sing and strum version of a song – like when the guitar takes a solo in the middle of a rock song.
Ready to take it up a notch? Get the Premium Course!
For a small additional investment, you get everything in the basic course plus two additional chord melody arrangements and all the lesson videos you need to learn them. The two additional songs are
- Silent Night
- Down in the Valley
The Premium Course PDF also includes more sheet music: a second version of all 7 songs to help you learn the chord melodies faster.
You see, our brains and bodies learn best when we learn new things in small chunks. One key part of learning a chord melody is to learn how to play ONLY THE MELODY of the song on your ukulele. Once you’ve mastered playing the melody alone, you can tackle adding on the ‘chord’ part of the chord melody.
Your Premium Course PDF contains the single line melody to each of the 7 songs in your course written out in tab. This bonus will make it easy for you to incorporate a crucial part of the chord melody learning process into your practice routine – simply read and play the melody one note at a time off your extra bonus PDF.
Here's what you get when you sign up for 3 Free Goodies
Goodie 1
Scale Melody Plus Five- a video and pdf that shows you how to move your hand up the neck of the ukulele to play melodies that are above the 5th fret.
Goodie 2
C Major Arpeggiation Etude-Fingerpicking Study. This study shows you different ways of fingerpicking an accompaniment using the beautiful chords from Pachelbel’s “Canon in D.”
Goodie 3
Free Sheet music to Jingle Bells Chord Melody, which is one of the songs in the course. This sheet music comes with 4 videos.
- Low G Lesson
- Low G Performance
- High G Lesson
- High G Performance
Learn to play easy full-sounding music now with this amazing course!
Available Nov. 23 – Dec. 16, 2021
Experience the joy of creativity and self-expression.
Regular Course 5 Songs
- You’ll learn
- • what is chord melody
- • how to read tab notation
- • right hand techniques for chord melody
- • left hand techniques for chord melody
- • how chord melody is notated
- • practice tips for learning chord melody
- • High G vs. Low G tuning and how it affects chord melody playing and arranging.
- The course includes a downloadable printable PDF of all five songs plus melody tab for each song. You get access to over 30 video lessons presenting the songs and how to play them.
- Songs included:
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
- Video Minutes: 53 minutes (26 videos)
- Each song includes a both melody tab version and a chord melody version. This helps you in your learning. You can break down the song into its different parts as you learn it.
Premium Course 7 Songs
- You’ll learn
- • what is chord melody
- • how to read tab notation
- • right hand techniques for chord melody
- • left hand techniques for chord melody
- • how chord melody is notated
- • practice tips for learning chord melody
- • High G vs. Low G tuning and how it affects chord melody playing and arranging.
- The course includes a downloadable printable PDF of all seven songs plus melody tab for each song. You get access to over 30 video lessons presenting the songs and how to play them.
- Songs included:
- Oh, When the Saints Go Marching In
- Over the River and Through the Woods
- Jingle Bells
- Oh, Christmas Tree
- Up On the Housetop
- Silent Night
- Down in the Valley
- Video Minutes: 66 minutes (34 videos)
- Each song includes a both melody tab version and a chord melody version. This helps you in your learning. You can break down the song into its different parts as you learn it.
Click here to buy the eBook Bundle.
Please note that the eBook Bundle and physical book do not include the video course.
What Our Customers Are Saying
Don’t just take it from us, let our customers do the talking!
I have played piano for years and always yearned to add a more portable instrument to my repertoire. Yet, I avoided stringed instruments because I thought that “singing along” was a prerequisite. “Learn Easy Ukulele Chord Melody Today” is helping me to appreciate first-hand how fun and versatile the ukulele is even when played without singing.
When the course went up last year the fact that it was focused on Christmas music made me hesitate. This year I decided to go for it as I figured I would have more time, and the positive is I knew I couldn’t procrastinate or it would no longer be the right time for holiday music.
I didn’t think I would enjoy that it was mostly Christmas music, but I actually am really enjoying those songs. The fact that they are familiar to me helps me learn and enjoy them, and want to continue to improve my playing of them.
I would recommend this workshop to anyone wishing to learn finger style, whether beginner or intermediate players.
I really appreciated that there was a performance and a lesson video for each song in both High and Low G tuning. That’s the meat of what makes this a “course” and not just a singalong.
This is a really good course and it will help me to understand music better, as well as improving my left and right hand co-ordination. I am able to play a lot better now.
Overall I liked the videos very much because Jenny teaches so well. It’s like sitting in a classroom. The explanations are clear and easy to understand and fill in a lot of gaps in my knowledge. The sheets and the videos combined make it easy to practise at a nice, steady pace. This is a really good course and it will help me to understand music better, as well as improving my left and right hand co-ordination.
“Learn Easy Ukulele Chord Melody Today” is helping me to appreciate first-hand how fun and versatile the ukulele is even when played without singing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will I have lifetime access to the course once I buy it?
Yes, you’ll be able to download the sheet music and access the online videos for as long as you want.
How will I access the course?
You’ll sign in to your member account to access the course content:
What do I need to watch the videos?
Do you offer a refund policy?
Can I still buy the course after Dec. 15?
What exactly is chord melody?
What is melody? Melody is what you sing, or notes that come one after another. Melody is one note at a time, as opposed to a chord which is many notes played at the same time.
What is accompaniment? The accompaniment is everything else except the melody. You can think of it as the guitar, bass and drums in a rock band or the “ooo-s” that back-up singers sing behind the lead singer. It is music that supports the melody. Often the accompaniment is strummed or finger-picked chords. It sounds best if the accompaniment is softer than the melody so that the melody can be heard clearly.
The art of chord melody is combining both chords and melody into a pleasing and complete-sounding arrangement that one person can play.
What exactly are "single line tab melodies"? Shouldn't it read "single note" tab melodies?
This issue has to do with semantics. All melodies are one note at a time, so we don’t refer to melodies as single notes. Melodies are single notes that have direction and movement, which is why we call them melody lines. Here are the definitions we use in this course:
What is melody? Melody is what you sing, or notes that come one after another. Melody is one note at a time, as opposed to a chord which is many notes played at the same time.
What is accompaniment? The accompaniment is everything else except the melody. You can think of it as the guitar, bass and drums in a rock band or the “ooo-s” that back-up singers sing behind the lead singer. It is music that supports the melody. Often the accompaniment is strummed or finger-picked chords. It sounds best if the accompaniment is softer than the melody so that the melody can be heard clearly.
Melody is a line of notes that is going somewhere. In music, we refer to expressive singing or playing as following the “melodic line.” Using the word “line” for melody helps you to understand music that combines one or more melodies. The famous Canon in D by Pachelbel is a “round” for 3 violins with a repeating bass line underneath. To talk about these concepts using the word “note” rather than “line” would be confusing.
Back to your question. We present each song twice to help you learn it, first with melody only, then with melody and chords. These two pictures will help show what I mean. Learning the melody first helps the brain distinguish between melody and chords. Doing this helps you to play and understand the song in a more musical way.
Why would I want to learn chord melody?
Plus, learning chord melody will make you a better ukulele player and it’s a fun challenge for your brain and fingers.
What do I get with the Basic Course?
You’ll also get access to the online video course which has six intro videos on how to play chord melody, plus four videos for each of the five songs. For each song there are two performances, one on a high G ukulele and one on a low G ukulele. There are also videos with tips on how to play the song on a high or low G tuned ukulele.
What do I get with the Premium Course?
You’ll also get access to the online video course which has six intro videos on how to play chord melody, plus four videos for each of the seven songs. For each song there are two performances, one on a high G ukulele and one on a low G ukulele. There are also videos with tips on how to play the song on a high or low G tuned ukulele.
I'm not that advanced. Won't this course be too hard for me?
What songs are in the Basic Course?
Oh, When the Saints
Over the River and Through the Wood
Jingle Bells
Oh, Christmas Tree
Up on the Housetop
What songs are in the Premium Course?
Oh, When the Saints
Over the River and Through the Wood
Jingle Bells
Oh, Christmas Tree
Up on the Housetop
Silent Night
Down in the Valley
Will I learn to make my own chord melody arrangements?
The course does not directly teach you how to make your own arrangements. But we teach you skills that lead you in that direction. Many customers have told me that they are creating their own arrangements of chord melodies. One of our customers last year said:
“The course has given me more self-confidence. I am looking at other songs and incorporating the techniques into self-adapted arrangements.”
You will learn the following techniques:
• Harmonizing a C Major Scale-This exercise is mainly in the first position. It does show a few chords “up the neck” so you can learn some inversions of chords at the 5th and 8th fret.
• How to play a melody with your thumb or finger-picking.
• How to play a finger-picked accompaniment.
• How to play partial chords.
• How to play a chord that uses a different melody note on top other than the one you are used to.
• How to read and play a tab melody.
• How to play a chord melody of that song.
Many people have found that these techniques are enough to give them the confidence to create their own chord melodies. Our step-by-step approach gives people practice with basic music theory. They can then apply this knowledge to their own music.
Why don’t you sign up for the 3 free goodies we offer before the course goes live? These goodies will give you a clear idea of what the course offers.