Earlier in August I added the document “Songs with One Progression” to both my GUITAR and UKULELE pages. It includes the songs Bad Blood by Taylor Swift, Creep by Radiohead, Don’t Worry Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin, Leaving on a Jet Plane by John Denver, Shake it Off by Taylor Swift, and Stand by Me by Ben E. King. In all of these songs the same chord progression repeats and doesn’t change throughout the entire song. I’m going to add more songs as I discover more that do the same, so check back often.

I also created the document “Guitar Chord-Strumming: Common Chords and Progressions” which introduces chords that either don’t fit naturally in any of my books, or I teach much later, but they show up in many songs. These chords include the 4-finger version of GM (for students who picked one of the 3-finger versions in Lesson 4), Cadd9, DM/F#, Em7, and B7. There are also familiar progressions with which to practice the chords, as well as the “pop progression”.

I spent most of the month writing and organizing songs for my Guitar and Ukulele Recital Songbooks (62 songs for each instrument). They are actually the same songs, but I presented them in the order that works best for each instrument. I also moved the Recital Songbooks and recordings of Recital Songs 1 to 5 to the GUITAR and UKULELE pages.

PDFs of all of these materials can be found under the FOR MY STUDENTS tab, on the GUITAR and UKULELE pages. As always, please let me know if you use any of these teaching materials with your students, and if you find them helpful, or if you have any questions or comments.