Get alerted before everyone else, the latest news about Bekkers Piano Guitar duo. Music, photos, concerts, articles, since 2001 USA: Boston, Houston, Durham NC, San Francisco, and Maui (Hawaii), etc. Since they met in 2001, they have given concerts in London, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, the Hague, Famagusta (North Cyprus), Madrid, La Coruna, Ferrol, Cortona, Brugge. This helped us get back on track, faster than listening to Youtube and Spotify clips.ĭutch guitarist Robert Bekkers and Brunei-born overseas Chinese pianist Anne Ku share their love of music and the behind-the-scenes stories of their quest for sheet music, composers, performers, concert venues, house concerts, audience development, sponsorship, fundraising, and adventures in music making with guitar, piano, and the ukulele. When in doubt, I go back to the original score by the composers (artists).Ĭhief Noda, the multi-instrumentalist, who played the bass in the first half of our jam-turned-rehearsal session, referred to his Beatles fakebook whenever we were uncertain about melodies and chords. Moving from the piano to the ukulele, the notated sheet music to the one-page song sheet, I make assumptions in face of greater constraints. Very little is written on the song sheet to give you certainty. If you don’t know the song by heart, you’d have to guess at tempo, strumming pattern, and singing the syllable on the correct beat. To accompany yourself on the ukulele, you have to make many assumptions. Im showing you how to play it in the original key of F.If you are searching for easier chords or. It’s the definitive version, so-to-speak, to learn from the score. This is my ukulele tutorial for 'Hey Jude' by The Beatles.

Growing up, I learned “Let It Be”, “Hey Jude”, and “Imagine” from reading the notes for the piano, not from listening to recordings or the radio. It’s a different experience altogether to approach Beatles songs on the ukulele, as opposed to the piano, my first instrument. How can we sing “Let It Be” and exclude “Hey Jude” the last number in the Beatles Carpool Karaoke? Besides, Paul McCarney sings it in the same key as the song sheet from San Jose Ukulele Club. By 9 pm, the ten chords in “Hey Jude” don’t look formidable anymore. As usual in our jam sessions, we get bolder and bolder the later it gets.

Hey jude piano uke chords