Strumming Patterns for Ukulele

In this lesson, students will be learning about strumming patterns they can use for the ukulele.  Before watching the lesson video, they need to have these sources available to use:

How to read strumming patterns

The 20 Most Useful Ukulele Strumming Patterns

Once students have these and are familiar with them, they are asked to perform the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star".  In my class, we have already played this song to get familiar with chord changes, and we are just using Strumming Pattern #1 from this list to work on those chord changes and keeping the beat.  For this assignment, I ask students to choose their own strumming pattern from the list and play it for their assignment to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

For the chord changes and key my students play in, refer to page 23 of Your First Ukulele Lesson and Then Some

Here is a student sample from this assignment from KJ.  She did mention in her notes that, while she says strumming pattern 10 in her video, she meant to say strumming pattern 2.