Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets
July 10, 2008 · Print This Article
Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets (Chords)
There are a couple of great ukulele tunes on Bishop Allen’s The Broken String album: Click, Click, Click, Click (which you can download on their website) and Butterfly Net.
Of the two, Butterfly Nets is by far the easiest to play - all baby’s first ukulele chords.
The version in the record is slightly different from the one in the video. As well as being longer, the album version is tuned slightly sharp and includes this little fingerpicking bit in the intro:
Strumming
A good, basic strumming pattern for this song would be down, down, up, up, down, up. Like this:
Suggested by Sam






I’m kinda lame and can’t pick up strumming patterns for the life of me. Would you mind mapping it out for me. Thanks.
I’m with Anna. I can’t figure out strum patterns either. Is there a trick for figuring them out?
strum-pattern-posts! strum-pattern-posts! strum-pattern-posts would be awesome!
Anna: I’ve added a bit to the post about the strumming pattern.
Chad and maduke: I’ll have to have a think about the strum pattern post. I mostly just do it on instinct. Make them up as I go along.
Thank you so much!
You’re welcome, Anna.