Song
Stand By Me
A recognisable version in about 5 to 8 lessons, with the shapes you learn on the way.
Stand By Me
How hard is it?
Steady
5–8 lessons
Four or more shapes, quicker changes, or both hands at once.
Ranges assume one 30-minute lesson a week and about ten minutes of practice most days. Taking longer is normal.
What will you learn?
Guitar
Shapes: G, Em, C, D.
Ukulele
Shapes: C, Am, F, G7.
Your teacher picks the order that suits you. Nothing here is a copied chart.
What do you do now?
Book the free first lesson and bring this song. No instrument yet? Your teacher will say what to get, and you can try it in the store first.
- Lesson oneThe targetYour teacher hears you play, simplifies the song if it helps, and says what “recognisable” means for you.
- The next lessonsThe shapesThe shapes and the changes between them, slowly at first, then in time.
- ThenThe whole songStart to finish at a speed you can keep, with a note of what to practise between lessons.
- The last lessonPlay it for someoneOne guest in the room, or on a video call, hears your song. That is the finish line.
Play it for someone
Every path ends with a listening lesson.
In the last lesson of your path one guest joins you, in the room or on a video call, and hears the song you came for. There is no stage, no ticket and no audience of strangers, just someone listening to you play it. Rather play at home? Our journal shows how.
- One guest in the room, or on a video call
- No stage, no audience, no pressure
- Then you pick the next song
Instruments it suits
The teacher’s pick for this song.
Chosen by a Tonecraft teacher and set up by hand in the workshop before it leaves.
Start with a free lesson.
Bring Stand By Me and your teacher will set the real target in the first thirty minutes.