Below is the lesson for “Drunken Sailor”.

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Learn to play this traditional sea shanty melody three times! The first time is a beginner-friendly chord melody, while the second and third times increase the difficulty for intermediate and advanced players.

The intermediate level (Theme 2) introduces the ghost note strum technique. Which is a technique that is exclusive to High G ukulele and is taught in our Next Level Strumming Course.

The advanced level (Theme 3) takes it up another notch with a more demanding strum pattern that moves parallel octaves up the neck!

Part 1 – Performance & Free Lesson

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