Comprehensive Ukulele Method-Playing the ukulele is an enjoyable easy and inexpensive way to get involved in music. It provides a way to learn musical concepts and skills that can apply to any instrument you decide to study. Moreover it will give you agreat opportunity to share the joy of making music with other people. This book will help to provide you with the basic skills and musical background you need to get started. This carefully crafted method emphasizes chordstrumming skills; teaching students HOW to practice; note reading exercises; ?chord challenges? to learn how to figure out chord progressions; tab reading; and more. It also includes nearly 30 familiar songs thatstudents can play while still learning including: All My Loving ? Home on the Range ? Hound Dog ? Jambalaya (On the Bayou) ? La Bamba ? The Lion Sleeps Tonight ? The Rainbow Connection ? Take MeOut to the Ballgame ? and more! Practice experiment and have fun playing the ukulele!

Playing the ukulele is an enjoyable easy and inexpensive way to get involved in music. It provides a way to learn musical concepts and skills that can apply to any instrument you decide to study. Moreover it will give you a great opportunity to share the joy of making music with other people. This book will help to provide you with the basic skills and musical background you need to get started. The CD contains demonstrations of all the songs and examples. This carefully crafted method emphasizes chord strumming skills; teaching students HOW to practice; note reading exercises; ???chord challenges??? to learn how to figure out chord progressions; tab reading; and more. It alsoincludes nearly 30 familiar songs that students can play while still learning including: All My Loving ??? Home on the Range ??? Hound Dog ??? Jambalaya (On the Bayou) ??? La Bamba ??? The Lion Sleeps Tonight ??? The Rainbow Connection ??? Take Me Out to the Ballgame ??? and more! Practice experiment and have fun playing the ukulele! .

Dutch Language VersionStep-by-step pictures take you from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track. Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know fromthe very first time; it is a look and learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations. Includes practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know to get playing fast! The CD audio tracks to showyou how things should sound and also provides full length accompaniment tracks to play along with.Written by Steven Sproat who is a ukulele player with considerable experience. He has broadcast on manyradio stations including BBC Radio 2 and BBC Scotland. Steven has played at prestigious venues such as Ronnie Scott's in London the Cheltenham Festival and the New York Ukulele Festival and is also a teacher – his mostfamous pupil being comedian Harry Hill!For Ukeleles in standard GCEA tuning.

For the first time here is the definitive introduction to playing Ukulele - plus a progressive guide to mastering more advanced techniques! This is the German language edition. Written by an established educator David Harrison The Complete Ukulele Player presents concise advice clear diagrams and photos and helpful tutorial tips to take you from beginner to playing scales harmony and Ukulele tab! The Complete Ukulele Player starts by using easy 3 chord songs ('Blowin' In The Wind' 'Love Me Do') gradually leading on to songs with diminished chords ('Crazy') transposition('Jambalaya') and demonstrating various strumming techniques ('Norwegian Wood'). Van Morrison's 'Brown Eyed Girl' is used as an introduction to reading tab and every song illustrates specific tips and techniques and comes with fascinating background information. Whatever your musical experience this book will soon have you feeling at home with the Ukulele. The included Download Card gives you instand access to over a hundred studio-quality audio tracks to help you learn even faster!

Blues Rags and Jazzy Tunes-We're in the midst of a ukulele renaissance and this wonderful little instrument's role has been expanding to include a wide variety of musical genres. In the hands of the amazing Del Rey it becomes a veritable blues and ragtime music machine! This informative and entertaining DVD will teach you a myriad of fingerpicking and chording techniques. Del takes a guitar player's approach to the instrument using her three fingers to get a syncopated melody and harmony lines against a steady thumb beat. She teaches you how to play cool riffs turnarounds blues songs and up-beat dance tunes. Tuning her uke to open C (G-C-E-A) she starts off with bluesscales and right hand exercises to coordinate your picking and fretting hands. Then it's right into five fabulous pieces in a variety of keys: Goin' Up the Country; Run and Tell Your Daddy Lord; Keep it Clean; Dance Hall Shuffle and Brown's Blues.

The book is part of a series that forms an expertly structured method of studying ukulele. It covers all the material needed for an LCM Ukulele exam, enabling you to study for an internationally-recognised qualification. However, even if you do not intend to take an exam, this book will help you develop all aspects of your playing in a structured way. The book is cleverly designed so that it can be used by both plectrum and fingerstyle ukulele players. / Exams / Etude / Ukulélé

The book is part of a series that forms an expertly structured method of studying ukulele. It covers all the material needed for an LCM Ukulele exam, enabling you to study for an internationally-recognised qualification. However, even if you do not intend to take an exam, this book will help you develop all aspects of your playing in a structured way. The book is cleverly designed so that it can be used by both plectrum and fingerstyle ukulele players. / Exams / Etude / Ukulélé

The Ukulele Playlist: Orange Book presents over 30 classic pop hits especially arranged for the ukulele from artists such as Bruno Mars Take That Plain White T’s Matt Cardle Jackie Wilson  Paolo Nutini and many more  including full lyrics strumming patterns and ukulele chord diagrams.

Step-by-step pages take you through the essential intermediate Ukulele techniques.Absolute Beginners Ukulele Book 2 has been designed to tell you everything you need to know to add style and colour to your playing.In one great book you get:A look and learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations.Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know to progress as a Ukulele player.CDaudio tracks to show you how things sound.Full length accompaniment tracks for you to play along with.An 'owners manual' approach to your Ukulele that makes learning easier than ever before!

?Saddle up? with 50 cowboy songs arranged for Ukulele including Abilene The Colorado Trail Don't Take Your Guns to Town Empty Saddles Jesse James The Red River Valley Twilight on the Trail The Yellow Rose of Texas and more.

Ready to take your uke playing to the next level? Renowned fretted instrument performer and teacher Fred Sokolow presents valuable how-to insight from which ukulele players of all styles and levels can benefit. The text photos music diagrams and accompanying online audio provide a terrific easy-to-use resource for a variety of topics including: techniques improvising and soloing equipment practising ear training performance uke history and lore and much more!

The complete Absolute Beginners method - all in one book!Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you play your ukulele. Step-by-step pictures takeyou from first day exercises to playing along with a backing track.In this book you get:a look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations; practical advice and tipscovering everything you need to know to get you playing fast;CD audio tracks show you how things should sound plus full-length accompaniment tracks to play along with.Simply everything you need is included inthis 'owner's manual' approach to your ukulele that makes learning easier than ever before.Written by Steven Sproat who is a Ukulele player with considerable experience. He has broadcast on many radio stationsincluding BBC Radio 2 and BBC Scotland. Steven has played at prestigious venues such as Ronnie Scott's in London the Cheltenham Festival and the New York Ukulele Festival and is also a teacher his most famous pupil beingcomedian Harry Hill!For Ukeleles in standard GCEA tuning.

A great collection of folk songs for Ukulele. Ideal to take along to the campfire!