How to Play Growing Pains on Ukulele?

Alessia Cara - Growing Pains can be played in the key of A using the A, E, C#m, B chords. For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 3, press fret 1 on the C string with finger 2, leave E, A open. For E, To play E, press fret 4 on the G string with finger 3, press fret 4 on the C string with finger 3, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, leave E open. For C#m, To play C#m | Dbm, press fret 1 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 4 on the C string with finger 3, press fret 4 on the A string with finger 3, leave E open. For B, To play B, barre fret 2 across E–A with finger 1, press fret 4 on the G string with finger 3, press fret 3 on the C string with finger 2. Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat. You can play Growing Pains with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.

Alessia Cara - Growing Pains Ukulele Chords

Chord reference A, E, C#m, B

Rhythm tips ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑

You’re on your own, kid, you are [A]Make my way through the motions, I try to [E]ignore it, but home’s looking farther the closer I [A]get Don’t know why I can’t see the end, is it over [E]yet? Hmm A [A]short leash and a short fuse don’t match, they tell me it ain’t that [E]bad, now don’t you overreact So I just hold my breath, [A]don’t know why, I can’t see the sun when young should [E]be fun

And I guess the [A]bad can get better, gotta be wrong before it’s right [E]Every happy phrase engraved in my mind, and I’ve always [A]been a go-getter There’s truth in every word I write, but [E]still the growing pains, growing pains, they’re keeping me up at night

[A]Hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah, hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah And I [E]can’t hide ’cause growing pains are keeping me up at night [A]Hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah, hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey And I [C#m]can’t hide ’cause growing [B]pains are keeping me up at night

[A]Try to mend what’s left of my content incomprehen[E]sion, as I take on the stress of the mess that I’ve made [A]Don’t know if I even care for “grown” if it’s just [E]alone, yeah

[A]Starting to look like Ms. Know-it-all, can’t take her own advice, can’t [E]find pieces of my peace of mind I cry more than I’d like to admit, but I can’t [A]lie to myself, to anyone, ’cause phoning it in isn’t any fun Can’t [E]run back to my youth the way I want to, the days my brother was quicker to [A]fool AM radio, not much to do, used monsters as an [E]excuse to lie awake [E]Now the monsters are the ones that I have to face, no band-aids for the growing pains [A]Hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah, hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah [C#m]Hey, hey, hey, yeah, hey, yeah, [B]hey, no band-aids for the growing pains

Artist Alessia Cara

Album The Pains of Growing

Genres Alternative, Indie, Pop

Year 2018

Key A

Alessia Cara - Growing Pains can be played in the key of A using the A, E, C#m, B chords.

For A, To play A, press fret 2 on the G string with finger 3, press fret 1 on the C string with finger 2, leave E, A open.
For E, To play E, press fret 4 on the G string with finger 3, press fret 4 on the C string with finger 3, press fret 2 on the A string with finger 2, leave E open.
For C#m, To play C#m | Dbm, press fret 1 on the G string with finger 2, press fret 4 on the C string with finger 3, press fret 4 on the A string with finger 3, leave E open.
For B, To play B, barre fret 2 across E–A with finger 1, press fret 4 on the G string with finger 3, press fret 3 on the C string with finger 2.

Barre: Use your index finger to press multiple strings on the same fret, keeping your finger flat.

You can play Growing Pains with the ↓-↓↑-↓↑-↓↑ strumming pattern.