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

Learn to play the ukulele and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about the history of the ukulele, its components, how to hold and tune it, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and playing a variety of well-known songs. You will learn different strumming techniques to help you play in a variety of musical styles. The book also contains a section teaching you how to play by ear. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key and know how to read music. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Transposition chart * Dictionary of tablature techniques * Ukulele fingerboard chart * Complete ukulele chord dictionary The accompanying DVD provides live performances that demonstrate how the music should sound, on-screen music and MP3 audio for every song and lessons hosted by performer and educator, Julia Jordan. This book teaches entirely in C tuning. The D tuning edition of Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele (item 14135) is available from your favorite music retailer and at Alfred.com. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way. / Ukulélé

This DVD serves as accompaniment to Alfred\'s Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele and provides live performances that demonstrate how the music should sound, on-screen music and MP3 audio for every song and lessons hosted by performer and educator, Julia Jordan. When used alongside the book, beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about the history of the ukulele, its components, how to hold and tune it, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and playing a variety of well-known songs. You will learn different strumming techniques to help you play in a variety of musical styles. The book also contains a section teaching you how to play by ear. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key and know how to read music. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Transposition chart * Dictionary of tablature techniques * Ukulele fingerboard chart * Complete ukulele chord dictionary This book teaches entirely in C tuning. The D tuning edition of Alfred\'s Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele (item 14135) is available from your favorite music retailer and at Alfred.com. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred Music be your resource every step of the way. / Ukulélé

This Easy songbook edition of the bestselling Uke'n Play Ukulele series will get beginners of any age strumming easy chords and playing popular songs in no time. Written by professional player and educator Mike Jackson, the book features his instant play method together with downloadable play-along audio. Don't forget to scroll down to watch Mike in action as he teaches our enthusiastic student.The book begins with how to tune up, before detailing Jackson's innovative instant play method that helps you easily remember where to put your fingers for different chords. Once you've mastered this, Uke'n Play Easy Ukulele teaches you the 6 chords you will need to play all the 25 songs included in this book.The songs get progressively more challenging and each feature chord diagrams, lyrics and chord symbols, helping you to learn to play the Ukulele by practising strumming the chords while also playing 25 famous tunes. Songs include I Walk The Line, Banks Of The Ohio, Achy Breaky Heart, and many more.The accompanying audio downloads will let you tune up, hear the songs how they should sound, then let you play along with a full backing band. Some songs feature Mike's handy hints so learning the Uke goes as smoothly as possible.If you've struggled to learn to play the Ukulele because you can't remember the chords, or you want to learn some great songs with a minimum of chords, such as Goodnight Irene and Streets Of Laredo, Uke'n Play Easy Ukulele is a beginner's instant play method that truly does work. Mike Jackson is a professional Ukulele player and multi-instrumentalist who has sold over 250,000 albums and performed extensively across Australia and the rest of the world. / Ukulélé

Ukulele Play-Along Volume 32: Top Downloads features 8 popular hits arranged for Ukulele.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 and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch.This songbook includes the hits All of Me, Brave, Get Lucky, Let Her Go, Let It Go, Roar, Royals, Say Something. / Ukulélé

Open up your mind, and make playing ukulele a no-brainer! Start with basics, like holding your ukulele and strumming, and then move on to playing various styles such as folk, Hawaiian, rock, old-time, reggae, jazz, and more. Learn chords all over the neck, traditional strums such as the triple burst strum, and fingerpicking. The book includes a chord dictionary with over 950 chords, and a DVD with over 80 minutes of video demonstrating all the basics, and over 100 minutes of audio instruction. With No Brainer: Play Ukulele, you won't just learn to play ukulele, you'll learn about playing in a band. / Ukulélé

The ideal gift for the beginning player! This 'deck” of cards includes over 40 essential ukulele chords presented in tab and full-color photos so you can see exactly where to place your fingers. View the front of each Ukulele Chord Deck card to see the shape and fingerings illustrated on a life-size fingerboard, then turn the card over to find the chord written in tablature, showing the frets, strings, and scale degrees and a full-color photo of the chord being played on a real ukulele. It's simply everything you need to start strumming favorite tunes today!/ Recueil / Ukulélé

Play jazz Ukulele. Learn the essential theory, concepts, and techniques to perform jazz.This book will help you to understand and play jazz harmonies and tension substitutions, and the principles for improvisation and accompanying other musicians. It includes traditional notation and tablature, and also introduces additional types of notation common in jazz. The accompanying online audio lets you hear the concepts and then practice them along with a jazz combo.By the end of the book, you will be able to play jazz Ukulele in ensemble and solo settings. / Ukulélé

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, stream or download the online audio 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 audio is enhanced so Mac and PC users can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! This updated second edition includes the songs: Blank Space - I Knew You Were Trouble - Love Story - Mean - Safe and Sound - Shake It Off - Teardrops on My Guitar - White Horse. / Ukulélé

The Ukulele Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the CD to hear how the Uke should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. With the melody and lyrics included in the book, you may also choose to sing along. Chord symbols are provided should you wish to elaborate on the melody. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and MAC computer users, the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch!This volume includes the songs: Christmas Time Is Here - Happy Holiday - A Holly Jolly Christmas - I'll Be Home for Christmas - The Little Drummer Boy - Silver Bells - White Christmas - Wonderful Christmastime. / Ukulélé

The Ukulele Decade Series: The 1950s features Ukulele arrangements for 80 favorites from the early days of rock, including All I Have to Do Is Dream, At the Hop, The Great Pretender, Peggy Sue, A Teenager in Love, You Send Me and more. / Ukulélé

Le Songbook Beatles Ukulele Chord vient en pratique 6 'x 9' de format avec les paroles complètes et symboles d'accord ci-dessus les paroles de dizaines de hits des Fab Four!Chaque morceau comprend aussi les grilles d'accords en haut de chaque page et les premières notes de la mélodie facile à consulter. Les livres de cette série sont parfaits pour les personnes qui ne lisent pas la musique mais qui veulent accords Jouez et chantez, et sont également idéal pour les plus avancés, joueurs de ukulélé musique-lecture qui ne se sentent pas comme patauger dans la note pour note notation. / Ukulélé