200 Easy Ukulele Songs: Database for Beginners

Two, three, or four chord easy ukulele songs are awesome for perfecting your uke strumming and chording techniques. This index of tunes will supply you with all the songs you need to be playing and singing in no time!

These songs are chosen to actually be easy to play for uke newbies. These songs:

1. Have four or less chord fingerings in the whole piece
2. Only use chords that can be played with three fingers or less
3. Don’t require barre chords (or need a capo)
4. Use relaxed tempos/ample time between each chord change

Easy Pop Ukulele Songs

With popular music where it’s at today using simple chords, it’s easier than ever for a beginner to strum recognizable songs on their ukulele. Pick a favorite here and click through to the chords to get started.

Easy Rock Ukulele Songs

With its roots in the blues, rock and roll has its fair share of songs with easy chords. This is the largest section and includes 1970s-2000s rock/pop, depending on how relevant the song has remained. Others can be found in the “oldies” section.

Easy Oldies Ukulele Songs

The ukulele is wonderful for playing oldies tunes and many classic songs are simple and easy to play. Everything here is pre-1970s.

Easy Country/Folk Ukulele Songs

Traditional country and folk songs tend to be based on “three chords and the truth” as the saying goes. If you can transpose from guitar-friendly keys to ukulele-friendly keys, many more old country tunes will be easy to play.

Easy Reggae Ukulele Songs

Reggae often uses easy chords, but since it relies heavily on a syncopated skank strum it can be difficult for beginners to play. If you’re a strumming wiz who wants to drill on some easy songs, reggae is your jam.

Traditional

These songs are a part of North American culture. They are some of the most well-known tunes to be found anywhere.

Easy Island Ukulele Jams

“Island” music can be a lot of things, but to me, living in Hawai’i, it means contemporary local music that sits somewhere between traditional Hawaiian and either reggae or mainstream music.

These are awesome tunes for chilling out and jamming at mellow events where a little island flavor on the uke can make things a little more tropical.

Easy Hawaiian Ukulele Songs

These are songs in Hawaiian language. If you can get a grasp on basic pronunciation, Hawaiian music is a beginning ukulele player’s paradise.

There are many, many Hawaiian songs that follow the same exact chord progression (order).

Easy Two-Chord Ukulele Songs

*Song ideas from Stillwater Ukulele Association and Fountain of Uke.

If you want even more ideas for some easy uke songs, there is a great collection on Uke Hunt arranged by chords used. It’s a clever way of seeing how learning just a single chord can allow you to play a ton more songs.

For some more sheets with ukulele chord diagrams, you can also try Stuart’s Ukulele Songbook and look for songs with a low “#C” number.

A Tip on Learning New Songs:

Work on one aspect at a time. It really helps to break a song down by chords, strum, and vocals.

If you try and do everything at once you’re going to struggle. Get familiar with the chords first – look them up (if you need a chord chart, click here), write them down, learn to finger them. Then take a look at a simple strum without trying to hold chords. Then sing through the song without trying to play.

Once everything is easy separately, start adding pieces together – strum (muted) and sing or strum and hold chords. Then try and do it all at once. The idea is to get everything running on autopilot in one form or another. If you are trying to play it all at once with brute determination and thinking power, you might be able too, but it will feel way harder than it should.

Two Songs That Aren’t Easy (But are on Other Lists)

There are a certain number of famous songs that get thrown onto other easy song lists because they’re well known. But this doesn’t mean they are a great song for beginners.

The reason you won’t find these here is because I’m an ukulele teacher. I’ve taught and continue to teach these songs to beginners and wouldn’t dream of including some of these in a uke 101 class:

• Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Isreal Kamakawiwo’ole (Tons of chords with shifting patterns)
• Hey Soul Sister by Train (Recorded in a hard key and with a fast strum that will just confuse beginners. You CAN transpose it, but often the magic is being able to play along with the recording)

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