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! .

Alfred's Teach Your Child To Play Ukulele is designed for parents who want to share the gift of music with their children before they begin formal study with a professional teacher. It is based on Alfred's Kid's Ukulele Course, a fun method that teaches students to play songs on the ukulele right away. Families who are part of the homeschool movement will find this book especially useful. Using the same music and fundamentals included in the original edition, an easy and user-friendly Parent Guide precedes each student page to aid with teaching the music to the child. The guide suggests steps for introducing the concept or page to the student, follow-up practice suggestions, and suggestions for reviewing the material in subsequent lessons. The enclosed CD contains a recording of every piece in the book. Listening or playing along with the recording is fun, but more importantly, it reinforces concepts such as rhythm and switching smoothly between notes and chords. Using this book and CD, any parent can teach their child the basics of ukulele. / Ukulélé

Jumpin' Jim's Ukulele Masters: Lyle Ritz
Series: Fretted Format: Softcover with CD Artist: Lyle Ritz Arranger: Jim Beloff
25 hand-picked standards lushly arranged by jazz ukulele great Lyle Ritz. Each song is arranged for both GCEA (standard tuning) and DGBE (tenor/baritone) tuned ukuleles. Also includes a CD of 12 of the songs performed by Ritz himself. While this songbook is ideal for the experienced player, with practice, these magnificent arrangements can be enjoyed and appreciated by all ukulele enthusiasts. Includes: All the Things You Are ? As Time Goes By ? Autumn Leaves ? Body and Soul ? Laura ? My Funny Valentine ? Spring Is Here ? and more, plus a chord solo of ?Fly Me to the Moon,? and an introduction by and biography of Ritz.
As Time Goes By
Autumn Leaves
Body And Soul
But Beautiful
Embraceable You
For All We Know
(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
Here's That Rainy Day
I Only Have Eyes For You
I'll Never Smile Again
Imagination
In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
Laura
Like Someone In Love
Make Someone Happy
My Funny Valentine
My Romance
Someone To Watch Over Me
Spring Is Here
Time After Time
Tonight You Belong To Me
Unforgettable / Partitions variété - pop - rock / Variété internationale / Cordes / HAL LEONARD

Perfect for beginning ukulelists as well as players who want to enhance their knowledge, this book and video teaches everything you need to know to get started on the ukulele, including chords, strumming, picking, basic music theory, and reading tablature (TAB) and standard music notation. Guitarists wanting to expand their musical horizons will also find this to be the perfect introduction to playing the ukulele. The book features lots of fun songs in a variety of styles, including rock, blues, Hawaiian, fiddle tunes, and fingerstyle. The companion video, on DVD and online, features friendly, easy-to-understand explanations and demonstrations by GRAMMY® Award-winning ukulelist Daniel Ho. With practice tips and other important advice for the beginning ukulelist, Beginning Ukulele is the most thorough method available for beginning ukulele students. / Ukulélé

Ideal for the weekend Hawaiian music buff wanting just enough instructions to play a song on the uke this book includes the basic rudiments to help a beginner learn melodies and then sing and strum away in many different keys.Learn songs in one key using single-string picking then practice strumming each song in four to six different keys. Ideal for individual or group instruction. Get ready for your next Hawaiian party. With lyrics in native Hawaiianonly. These songs will never grow old!

Based on his top-selling Uke'n Play series, Mike Jackson has now put together an even easier edition - a collection of well-known songs using just two chords per song.This is a book for the beginner (any age) or for those who play a little and need some extra easy songs to practice what they know. Basic information is given and relevance of the Ukulele to the Guitar is included - to show the connection for those who already play Guitar.The CD has recordings of all the songs - with lead vocals, ukulele and full band accompaniment. Playing along helps keep the beat and gives confidence to the player as technique is being refined.With this simple 'Instant Play Method' you will be able to play every song in the book in no time! / Ukulélé

Mel Bay's Ukulele Wall Chart is an attractive and informative addition to any practice room. Included are a breakdown of the parts of the instrument tuning instructions a note finder for each string and a chord chart for evermajor and minor key. The Ukulele Wall Chart is an excellent reference tool for ukulele players of all levels. dimensions: 35' x 24'. Printed on durable coated paper.

Essential Elements Ukulele Book 2 is a great next step for players who are ready to expand their knowledge of music and further develop their skills on the ukulele. This comprehensive method book uses familiar and popular songs to introduce more advanced strumming options and fingerpicking techniques. A combination of traditional notation and tablature are used to illustrate new ideas. As in Book 1 the ukulele is used to explore concepts that apply to any instrument and can provide a basis for future musical experiences. The accompanying online audio provides demonstrations of songs and play-along accompaniments making this method a nice framework for individual practice or groupinstruction. This book also includes many well-known songs including: Amazing Grace Rock Around the Clock This Little Light of Mine the Beatles' Eight Days a Week and Yellow Submarine Bruno Mars' Count on Me Jack Johnson's Upside Down and Somewhere Over the Rainbow as made popular by Israel Kamkawiwo'ole.

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!

Written by established educator David Harrison, The Complete Ukulele Player is the most in-depth and comprehensive introduction to playing this fantastic instrument. Taking you from being an absolute beginner to playing scales, harmony and your first tunes, this is the essential volume for anyone interested in learning the Ukulele.If you have no prior experience with musical instruments, or you do, but not on the Ukulele, then The Complete Ukulele Player is the ideal book for you. With comprehensive advice, clear diagrams, numerous photographs and invaluable tips, this book will take you from not even knowing how to hold the Ukulele to feeling right at home. The Complete Ukulele Player begins your journey with an introduction, a short history of the instrument and how to choose one. When you've got your first Ukulele, you'll find out the anatomy of the instrument, which accessories you might need, how to hold it and how to tune it. After you've mastered the practicalities, it'll be time to make music! This tuition book begins by using easy 3-chord songs like Dylan's Blowin' In The Wind, Love Me Do by The Beatles, before moving on to songs with diminished chords like Patsy Cline's Crazy, transposition with Jambalaya and more advanced strumming techniques with Norwegian Wood. The benefit of using popular songs in this way is to enhance musicality at the same time as teaching theoretical concepts. It's easy to pick up a Ukulele and strum a few chords, but with The Complete Ukulele Player chords and harmony are explored in much more depth and detail than in other books. Different chord voicings and techniques are explained and made clear in relation to songs, making learning easier and more enjoyable. Van Morrison's Brown-Eyed Girl is used as an introduction to tablature, and by the end of the book you'll have mastered notes, scales, basic fingerpicking, palm muting, different strumming patterns and more advanced chords.A final truly unique addition to The Complete Ukulele Player is the accompanying download card, giving you access to over a hundred studio-quality demonstration and backing tracks, helping you learn by listening and ear-training. The three hours of audio comprises basically everything that you would need to hear from the book itself, in easy to use tracks that you can download to your computer.So if you're new to the Ukulele and you are looking for a place to start, look no further than The Complete Ukulele Player. Featuring all the essential theoretical knowledge you will need, along with famous and popular tunes to play, this is the ideal beginning tuition book that will put the inimitable Ukulele at your fingertips. If you are looking for even more tunes to play with your newly-learned skills, check out The Complete Ukulele Player Songbook 1 and Songbook 2. These songbooks each contain 16 favourite tunes in the same format as this tuition book, making them the perfect companion for budding Uke players. / Ukulélé

Step-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 from the very first time. A look and learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations. Practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know to get playing, fast! CD audio tracks to show you how things should sound, plus full length accompaniment tracks to play along with. Written by Steven Sproat who is a ukulele player with considerable experience. He has broadcast on many radio 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 most famous pupil being comedian Harry Hill! For Ukeleles in standard GCEA tuning. / Ukulélé

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.