Ukulele Christmas Song 5 - Jingle Bells

This is how to play jingle bells, we're gonna start off with just a 3 chord simple version, and then we're gonna look at how we can add a little bit more complexity. If you're a beginner, you can just strum once per chord, every time you see the chord on the chord sheet, which is down below. Uh, if you're more advanced, add the strumming and add the extra chords that we, uh, look at in this song, little variations to keep it interesting, and let's check out how to play jingle bells. So yet again, don't bore us, get to the chorus, let's have a look at the jingle bells bit. Jingle bells is on a sea, jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. It's an F chord. Oh what fun. Back to C, it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh. Hey, jingle bells, jingle bells. It's all the same stuff again, so F to C. G, but this time, just to finish that chorus, we end on the C. What we're gonna be adding is this down, down, down, up, down, up strumming pattern that we looked at earlier in an earlier song and uh that would go. Faster change at the end there, sorry, but that's the kind of thing that we can do. If you are a little bit more advanced, you can go for a G7 chord. It's played like this. And it just matches the melody a little bit more, so every time you see a G chord, you have the option to do a G7 if you wish, if you're a fancy pants, you can do that. Um, and we're gonna look at another couple of things too, but let's have a look at the verse, dashing through the snow. It's gonna go dashing through the snow in a one horse open cort on sleigh. Over fields we go G chord or of course G7. You choose, laughing all the way back to C. Exactly the same thing again, doesn't matter what the words are, what the verses are, we're doing the same chord progression for the verses. Bells on bobtails ring, making spirits bright. What fun it is to ride and sing, that's the G7. A sleighing song tonight. OK, and then we'll go for it with the down, down, down, up, down, up strumming pattern. Rewind if you need more help with just the chord progression. Let's do this verse with that strumming pattern now. 123 and 4 and dash. Horse open sleigh. The fields we go. Bingo bells and bobtail. Thing spirit its It is to chorus, 1235 jingle. to. ages. Als to So in slay. One little fun thing for those of you that are a bit more advanced, but it is pretty easy. I really like when the melodies arrangements of this song kind of go. Kind of gives us something to do, just for that start bit, it's just for that first line and the third line. So when we stay on that C chord a long time, we can go 1st rap, string 4. With the 1st finger and then the 2nd fret, so it's like open 1st, 2nd, 1st. Bill James way. uh is to ride in a wonderful open. up and And that's how to play Jingle Bells, that is the last of our 5 easy songs on the ukulele. Uh, let me know what you thought of this in the comments below. Uh, make sure you give me any other Christmas song requests or anything else you'd like to see ukulele-wise on this YouTube channel, and I hope to see you in the next video. Take care of yourselves, have a great Christmas. Bye for now.