Grand Finale Showtime

We had so much fun at St Mary's Ballygunner as all 5th classes prepared to entertain their guest class. The Treble Island story and songs went down well  See the previous post for the story. Here are the songs we presented today.

Coconut Song   C7
Row Row Row Your Boat selected verses mouse and submarine verse  C
Ceol ars an tasal  C

Drunken Sailor  Am G7
Ta na mbáid       Am G7
Baidin Fheilimí   F C7

We Will Rock You  Am
Octopus's Garden    C Am F G7
Yellow Submarine   chorus C G7    verse G7 C F G7

Baby Shark     C Am F G7

  NEWSFLASH Coconut Song voted no 1 Favourite Ukulele Song 

Míle buiochas to Ms Kearney, Ms Power and Ms Dollard, Mr O Reilly and Mr O Sullivan for all your helpand encouragement.

Week 5 Putting It All Together

Ms Power's 5th Class

We worked the five chords covered in this course C7 C Am F and G7 and revised our songs for next weeks end of module performance.


Remember there is a difference between singing a song and performing. Next week we will be performing.

Coconut Song

Row Row Your Boat

We Will Rock You

Ceol ars an tasal  C Canon

Baidin Fhilimi   F and C

   F/// /// /// C7///

F/// /// C7 /// ///

F/// /// /// C7///

C7/// /// F/// ///

Drunken Sailor  Am G

Ta na Baid   Am G7

Yellow Submarine  Verse G7 C F C

Baby Shark

Octopus's Garden

Tales from Treble Island                                                       

1 *Once upon a time there lived a happy group of folk on Treble Island.   There were lots

of coconut and lime trees on the island. One day Harry made a coconut and lime smoothie but it gave him a belly ache Coconut Song

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One day 2 There was only one way to get off Treble island and that was to Row Row Row Your Boat although you had to watch out for some strange animals!  Row Row Your Boat!

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3* Even the animals were musical on Treble Island. In a field lived a very vain donkey  Ceol ars an t-asal   

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4 Every morning the men of the island put out to sea in fishing boats. They liked to sing seas shanties while they worked on the decks . So what do you do with a drunken sailor – listen and you’ll find out! Drunken Sailor 

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5 On days when the  waves grew higher and the wind blew hard the their families waited anxiously on the shore looking out to sea   Cue Tá na  Baid .

6 One day an islander set out in his little boat to the neighbouring island of Gola. On the way Baidin Fheilimi  ran into a storm .

* Not every one was happy on the island and in Treble Town lived a boy who grew up to be an angry young man This is a song by Rock group Queen We Will Rock You

On the island lived a family who lived in a very unusual home. They lived in a yellow submarine

On the Northern part of the island lived a family of sharks  One day they decided to go hunting!.

(Baby Shark)

Just off the shore On the Southern part of the island lived an octopus.  The octopus had a sea garden under the waves.

Fiinish with Octopus’s Garden .

Copyright C Desmond

Week 4: Beatles Day at Ballygunner

In our ukulele class today we worked on two songs that were hits for one of the most successful pop groups ever The Beatles came from Liverpool and were one of the most influential bands in the history of music. The members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (drums). Read more about the Beatles here http://www.beatlesebooks.com/yellow-submarine

Yellow Submarine in the key of F

New Chord G7

A new chord









A New Chord sequence 
C Am F G7

for Octopus's Garden

Seachtain na Gaeilge agus Ukulele

Bhí an spraoi againn i rith Rang Ukulele

New Chord  F Major 

Canaimid amhrain as Gaeilge

Ceol ars an tas-al 
Sé istigh sa ngort.
Éist le a glórsa
sé is binne port
Hi Ha Hi ha Hi ha ha ha ha ha.

Canon as gaeilge   Chord C





https://www.olgapalna.com/en/audio/fish-from-patrick/6-olga-palna/51-heisc-o-phadraig/210-

Listen to the strum damp technique of the guitar accompaniment in this version


Tá na baid go damhain sa farraige 
Am
Tá na baid go damhain sa farraige
G (guitar only)
Ta na baid go damhain sa farraige
Am
Slán abhaile go dtaga na fir
Am

A minor works most of the time but in the second line we need a second chord G

Buicochas do Cathal, Scarlett and Joseph  (G ar guitar  )

Canfaimid Baidin Fhilimi    new chord F 

Theory  Corner 
making up a chord 

Musical alphabet A B C D E F G 

3 notes  Chord named after the bottom note or (root)  1  add 3 and 5 

Chord A B C D E F G A B C              C    Chord is   C   E and G 
                   1     3     5

            A B C D E F G A B C            Am Chord is A  C and E  
            1      3     5 
           A B C D E F G A B  C              F   Chord is  F A and C 
                              1    3      5


Question: What note appears in all three chords C Am and F  

Baby Shark    We used three different chords on the word Shark   C    Am     F   
                                                                                                         Last shark Silent or guitar G

Other features; Finger rustling tremelo  and an ocean drum roll (Go raibh maith agat  Billy)






 

Week 2: A Minor Miracle

#TBT Fact: The #ukulele won a #Guinness World Record for being the easiest #instrument to play. Also fact: 20% kids learn to play an instrument but 70% adults wish they had. pic.twitter.com/ZpVax0vNFy

— Learn To Uke (@learntouke) March 7, 2019

Today at Ballygunner Ukulele School :

We listened to two different kinds of chords; MAJOR and minor

We learned to play A minor 

One chord songs today were We will Rock You  Queen adding the drum beat 

Our first 2 chord song was The Star of the County Down using Am and changing to C in the 3rd phrase.

Bravo Caoimhe and Ellen who played the melody of Star of County Down on fiddle and whistle.

To mark Storybook Day we had a special violin version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow adding C chord banjo pick and tremelo. 

Encore: Row Your Boat more lyrics; Frere Jacque; Its raining ; Coconut Song 

Week 1: Coconuts and C Chords

Ms Kearneys 5th class on a new uke adventure

Loads of fun yesterday as 5th class kicked off their uke project.

Here is what we did yesterday.
   We learned what a chord is;
   how to read a chord chart ;
   how to play 2 chords; C7 and C
   some history about the ukulele
   a brush strum
   a first finger strum
   basic finger picking
   how to tell if your uke is in tune

One chord Songs:
Coconut song;  Row Your Boat ; Ireland's Call; Its Raining Its Pouring; Ratlin Bog;

Tuning: My Dog Has Fleas   (soh doh me lah)   G C E A

Thumb Brush Strum: Imagine you are brushing biscuit crumbs out of your strings.

Chord: 3 or more notes that sound well together

First chord  C7  

Lime in the Coconut Song Strum Damp (Damp the sound with your palm)

Second Chord C

Things to do for next week. Read the history of the ukulele (copy on your classroom notice board)
Check out the Spoitify Playlist: Ballygunner Ukes Playlist

George Formby was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930s and 1940s. On stage, screen and record he sang light, comical songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer. This clip is from one of his films 

Ukulele Lift Off at St Mary's

Yay! It is Ukulele Thursday this week in Ballygunner NS Kitti Caboodle is packing up the ukulele wagon and will be in Ballygunner NS visiting 5th classes this week. This silly song by Harry Nilsson is one of the first in our play list. Have a listen.

Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime
His sister had another one, she paid it for a lime

She put the lime in the coconut, she drank them both up
She put the lime in the coconut, she drank them both up
She put the lime in the coconut, she drank them both up

She put the lime in the coconut, she called the doctor, woke him up

And said, Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take
I say, doctor, to relieve this bellyache?
I say, doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take
I say, doctor, to relieve this bellyache?

Now let me get this straight

You put the lime in the coconut, you drank them both up
You put the lime in the coconut, you drank them both up
Put the lime in the coconut, you drank them both up

Put the lime in the coconut, you called your doctor, woke him up
And said, Doctor, ain't there nothing I can take
I said, Doctor, to relieve this bellyache?
I said, Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take
I said, Doctor, to relieve this bellyache?

You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em both together
Put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better
Put the lime in the coconut, drink 'em both up
Put the lime in the coconut, and call me in the morning
WOOH HOO AD LIB