hello in this ukulele tutorial we're going to be going over you are my sunshine what chords to play in the key of C different ways we can strum it and the progression and we'll do a little play along at the end because this will be addressing a few different levels and I don't know what level you are feel free to use timestamps which I provided in the description if you want to skip around you already know for example how to play the C chord let's get started first thing we're gonna do is we are going to talk about how to play these chords and we're gonna give you a couple of small exercises that you can use to transition going from one chord to another we're gonna start with AC chord since we are in the key of C and to play a C chord we use our third finger on the third fret and we're gonna press straight down on the a string that turns the a note into a C in my version of you are my sunshine I go from C to C seven F the C seven is a passing chord it leads you into the F chord so that's why I do that if you are not ready to do that if you want to just use C and F you can do that too but what I do is I go C and then I use my first finger first fret on that same string C seven so let's just try that once or twice we're gonna go [Music] pause the video and do that on your own if you want to or need to changing to C seven is actually a nice transition because your first finger is already where it needs to be for F what it's going to do is it's gonna skip down from the eighth string to the E string and press down just on the E string and your second finger is going to reach over on the g string and turn that note into an A [Music] that's f-word you want to make sure that it rings and hear every note we're gonna do a little bit of practice transitioning from F to c7 just to get that kind of emotion under your fingers so practice that on your own if you need to after you play the F in this song you go back to the C chord so we're gonna just go and with just those three chords we can't get into most of the song so let's get started the chord progression actually starts on the word Sun and the you are my as a pick up so we'll go one two three four one you make me cars are C [Music] and now we have g7 so what we're gonna do between between C and D 7 is we are going to slide our third finger down to that second fret we're gonna add second finger skipping this string pressing down on the C string we are going to a first finger in between like a little triangle the first fret g7 we're gonna practice transitioning out just a couple times nice and slow from C g7 c g7 c g7 C now we're just gonna do soft down strums I use my thumb to make the sound get that nice soft sound so we'll do one strum for every beat going down so on C and one two three four go you are my [Music] please [Music] now once you feel really comfortable with changing the chords on time let's do a little bit of strumming on this I see doo doo buh doo doo buh doo kinda rift and we're gonna go down down up down down up down down up down what I do is I use my right hand I use the motion falling down usually it's my nails that make the sound don't worry about it if it's not as long as it's going on time now we're gonna just try it with that pattern noticing this twice I will do melody with you first and then I'll harmonize and you can try to just hold your own on the melody I believe in you there we go and 1 2 3 4 [Music] take my sunshine [Music] I hope you found this tutorial helpful at least first start this channel does some tutorials occasionally and I would like to know if you want to learn more about this song or about other songs I also make music on this channel I do original songs and I play the trumpet so if you are interested in following those things then please do subscribe I take requests for tutorials on my patreon page if you are interested in more tutorials like this check that out let me know what you think and if it was helpful for you until next time stay mindful stay musical and stay out of trouble