Ukulele Books
The Bob Dylan Ukulele Chord Songbook is a unique collection of 100 all-time classic songs, drawn from 50 years of Bob Dylans recording career.
Enjoy this super mix of jazz, blues, barbershop, gospel, classical, ethnic, folk and old favorites! This collection features 27 solos arranged with just chord diagrams for players at all levels of ability. Songs include: Aura Lee · Down by the Old Mill Stream · Hard Times Come Again No More · My Wild Irish Rose · Twelve-Bar Blues · Liebestraum · Ja-Da · My Buddy · Sweet Adeline · In the Bleak Midwinter · Memories · Toyland · Dark Eyes · and more. Each solo is preceded by a page of background information with interesting comments about the composers and the songs themselves. Introductory text provides instructions, detailed guidelines, helping playing tips, and useful insights. Although intended primarily for the baritone ukulele, many of the solos can be played by both concert and tenor ukes, as well as on the top four strings of the guitar.
This chart shows essential chords and secondary minor chord relationships from all 12 root tones for the soprano ukulele in G-C-E-A tuning. The chords shown for each root note are major, seventh, minor, diminished, and augmented, with relative minor I, IV, and V7 chords also shown. In addition, the chart includes a ukulele fingerboard illustration with all the frets numbered and the corresponding notes shown in standard notation. Unfolds to 17.5" by 11.75". Designed for the left-handed uke player.
Ukulele players can strum, sing and pick along with 20 Beatles classics! Includes: All You Need Is Love · Eight Days a Week · Good Day Sunshine · Here, There and Everywhere · Let It Be · Love Me Do · Penny Lane · Yesterday · and more.
These chord-melody solos have been arranged for solo ukulele playing. Tunes include Aloha Oe, When the Saints Go Marching In, Bill Bailey, The Sheik of Araby, By the Light of the Silvery Moonlight, and many more. All in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio containing recordings of each tune including guitar accompaniment.
These are the matching transcriptions to Jake's 2012 release produced by Alan Parsons and featuring more amazing uke versions of classic hits and Jake originals. Titles include: Akaka Falls (Ka Wailele O' Akaka) · Fields of Gold · Gentlemandolin · Gone Fishing · Island Fever Blues · Missing Three · More Ukulele · Music Box · 143 · Over the Rainbow · Rolling in the Deep · Ukulele Five-O.
Learn notes, chords, songs, and playing techniques from the master of modern ukulele! In this unique book with online video, Jake Shimabukuro will get you started on playing the ukulele. The book includes full transcriptions of every example, the video features Jake teaching you everything you need to know plus video of Jake playing all the examples. In addition, the video includes performances of Jake playing some of his most popular arrangements such as While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Ukulele Five-Oh, among others. The video is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded.
This Supa Easy edition of the bestselling Uke'n Play Ukulele series will get absolute beginners of any age strumming simple chords and playing easy songs that only feature 2 chords. Written by professional player and educator Mike Jackson , the book features his instant play method together with downloadable play-along audio, making it perfect for classrooms, groups and individuals.
A dozen hits from this popular British diva for uke, including: Chasing Pavements · Hello · Lovesong · Make You Feel My Love · Rolling in the Deep · Rumour Has It · Send My Love (To Your New Lover) · Set Fire to the Rain · Skyfall · Someone like You · Water Under the Bridge · When We Were Young.
The Ukulele Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the written music, listen to the CD to hear how the ukulele should sound, and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The CD is playable on any CD player, and also enhanced so Mac & PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! This volume includes 8 bluegrass classics: Angel Band · Dooley · Fox on the Run · I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow · I'll Fly Away · Keep on the Sunny Side · Sitting on Top of the World · With Body and Soul.
15 solo ukulele arrangements in standard notes and tab of J.S. Bach works: Arioso · Be Thou with Me · Bourrée · Chorale in C Major, BWV 514 · Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring · Little Prelude No. 2 in C Major · Minuet in G · Minuet 1, BWV 813 · Musette in D Major · Prelude (Cello Suite No. 1) · Prelude in C Major · Quia Respexit · Sheep May Safely Graze · Sleepers, Awake (Wachet Auf) · Violin Partita No. 1, BWV 1002 Tempo Di Bourrée.
Learn how to arrange great standards and pop songs in chord melody style, where the chords and melody of a song are played on a single instrument at the same time! The songs range from simple to advanced difficulty, so all uke players can use this book. Songs include: Aloha Oe · Blue Skies · Eight Days a Week · Georgia on My Mind · Love Me Tender · Nights in White Satin · Ode to Joy · Surfer Girl · Tiny Bubbles · Unchained Melody · and more. Book includes access to online demos of the songs.
This book and accompanying audio offer a unique look into playing the music of Bach on the ukulele. Included are twenty duets for two ukuleles or ukulele and guitar. The first part in the duet can be played on either soprano, concert or tenor ukulele, and the second part on either baritone ukulele or guitar. This collection contains beautiful arrangements of many of Bach's most popular pieces. Some of the arrangements are simple, some complex, but most are of intermediate difficulty. The accompanying audio contains breathtakingly beautiful performances by ukulele maestro Rob MacKillop, and historical guitar specialist Gordon Ferries, making it wonderful in its own right.Included are pieces such as Sheep May Safely Graze: Minuet in G: Sleepers Awake: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring: and many other classic tunes. Includes access to online audio.
This collection by David Coe contains 21 beautiful melodies by the world's greatest composers. Included are songs by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and many more. Each selection is presented in both standard notation and tablature with chord diagrams included. The ukulele has a distinctive melodic voice and musicians of all levels will enjoy playing these timeless classics.
This book is designed to aid the beginning uke player in playing strums applicable to folk and bluegrass music. Each of the 29 songs has a different strum pattern! A complete grounding in chord accompaniment is attained through songs presented in various keys. Written for the uke in standard GCEA tuning.
A collection of 29 folk and bluegrass songs selected to aid the beginning baritone uke player in playing strums suitable for diverse time signatures and tempos. Includes chord diagrams for the principal chords in each key plus instruction on tuning and playing position. An ideal follow-up to Fun with the Baritone Uke.
A full-sized chord-writing book featuring 30 blank 4-string chord grids per page. Thirty-two tear out pages printed in black ink on regular-weight, white paper. Can be used for banjo, tenor banjo, ukulele, baritone ukulele and mandolin.
This book and companion audio present 38 classic children's songs arranged for solo ukulele. Included are nursery rhymes, lullabies and rounds. Because sing-alongs are an important part of children's playtime, words are included. These arrangements sound wonderful played by musicians of all levels. In the solo style, the lead melody is voiced on the higher strings while chords are voiced on the lower strings. The result is a pleasant, full-sounding arrangement that makes the ukulele sound surprisingly big and complete. Includes access to online audio.
Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs on Southern plantations, and are the sound of a new, vibrant America. Mixing early Black banjo music, with European dances, a new popular music was born, which, in the following decades, would mature into ragtime and jazz.Rob MacKillop arranged these pieces for fingerstyle ukulele. They sound great on either a standard uke or on a banjo ukulele. Includes access to an online audio recording containing performances of all 20 pieces by Rob MacKillop on a banjo ukulele.
70 songs with lyrics, melody lines, and chord frames for standard ukulele, baritone ukulele, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. Enjoy strumming and singing these Beatles classics with all your buddies! A great resource for beginning stringed instrument players who are ready to experience the fun of making music together! Songs include: All You Need Is Love · Back in the U.S.S.R. · Birthday · Can't Buy Me Love · Come Together · Day Tripper · Drive My Car · Eight Days a Week · Eleanor Rigby · Get Back · Good Day Sunshine · Got to Get You into My Life · A Hard Day's Night · Help! · Here Comes the Sun · Hey Jude · I Saw Her Standing There · I Want to Hold Your Hand · In My Life · Let It Be · The Long and Winding Road · Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) · Paperback Writer · Revolution · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band · She Loves You · Ticket to Ride · Twist and Shout · Yellow Submarine · Yesterday · and more!
Sing and play the best songs from the biggest names in rock and pop with this new addition to the popular Buskers series. This comprehensive songbook contains 101 acoustic classics by artists ranging from the Beatles and Joan Baez to KT Tunstall and Jeff Buckley. All your favourite songs are arranged with lyrics, melody and chord boxes, in a ring-bound, conveniently-sized book that can be used for gigs, practice or just for fun!
With the same arranging expertise shown in his other Mel Bay solo ukulele collections, Ondrej Sarek presents these 25 lyrical North American melodies. The selections are derived from popular themes by known and unknown composers from the Colonial Era to the 21st century, including folk ballads, Civil War melodies, songs by Stephen Foster, a 19th century piece by Edward MacDowell, and a half-dozen clearly modern but lyrical compositions by William Bay. Written in standard notation and tablature for the soprano or concert ukulele tuned GCEA.
The Ukulele Playlist: Folk features over 40 folk songs and sea shanties, specially arranged for Ukulele.
25 top tunes for the holidays in standard G-C-E-A tuning for ukulele, including: Blue Christmas · Christmas Time Is Here · Frosty the Snow Man · Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas · I'll Be Home for Christmas · The Little Drummer Boy · The Most Wonderful Time of the Year · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · Silver Bells · White Christmas · and more.