3-Chord Songs for Ukulele

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 toplaying 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 theUkulele 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 tohold 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'vegot 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 bookbegins 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 withJambalaya 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 teachingtheoretical 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 chordvoicings 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

Play 50 Great Songs with Just 3 Easy Chords!-If you know three chords you can play these 50 great hits on the Ukulele. Songs include: Bad Moon Rising A Boy Named Sue Free Fallin' Hound Dog King of the Road Leaving on a Jet Plane Mustang Sally Rock Around the Clock Shelter from the Storm Time for Me to Fly Twist and Shout and many more.

If you're new to ukulele, you're probably eager to learn to play some songs. This one-of-a-kind collection provides a combo of standard notation, tab, and chord symbols for popular songs to be played on solo ukulele in standard G-C-E-A tuning for fingerstyle, chord melody performance. Songs include: Africa · Blackbird · Blowin' in the Wind · Body and Soul · City of Stars · Crazy · Fire and Rain · Georgia on My Mind · I'm Yours · Imagine · A Million Dreams · People Get Ready · Stand by Me · Yesterday · Your Song · and more.

30 songs of the season are presented in 3-chord arrangements for ukulele in this collection of carols.

Ukulele Basics Repertoire offers a tempting assortment of children’s songs popular music folk songs and film themes specially chosen and arranged for young beginners aged 6+. Designed both to consolidate and further the techniques introduced in Ukulele Basics this pocket collection introduces new skills and concepts gradually over the course of the book. It: includes chordal arrangements of He’s A Pirate Greased Lightning Hokey Cokey and The Animals Went In Two By Two; explores new chords strumming patterns and rhythms including Dm Bb E7 and Gm chords and semiquaverrhythms; provides opportunities for practising fast chord changes; introduces new time signatures 6/8 and 3/2; develops general musicianship; and follows the fun but clear approach of the tutor book. Practical and fun this is an ideal resource for group and individual teaching and the perfect companion to Ukulele Basics.

For Young Beginners-You can now teach kids how to play Ukulele with these easy Ukulele lessons for kids.Progressive Ukulele Method For Young Beginners: Book 1 covers the important techniques required to learn to play theUkulele including correct posture hand position and fingering technique for playing 5 Ukulele notes and 3 Ukulele chords.Suitable for children aged 4 to 8 years and all types of children???s Ukuleles including concert soprano and tenor.Progressive Ukulele Method For Young Beginners: Book 1 includes 37 great sounding Ukulele exercises containing popular easy Ukulele songs for kids.Beautifully illustrated in fullcolour throughout with easy-to-read music chords and tabs.Comes with 1 DVD and 1 CD containing Ukulele videos and audio demonstrating all examples.No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the Ukulele isrequired to teach how to play Ukulele from this book.

Strumming chords to back up singing is fun but there's more to the Ukulele than that! If you've seen Jake Shimabukuro or some other contemporary Uke wizards playing amazing instrumentals you know the little 4-string jumpingflea is capable of anything. If you'd like to learn how to play solos (with other people or by yourself) this lesson will show you several approaches to doing just that. You'll learn two moveable blues boxes chord based licks 'Steve Cropper licks ' first position and moveable major scales...and how and when to use them. These soloing ideas work for songs of just about any genre: rock pop blues country R

The official songbook including all the songs from Adele?s fourth studio album, 30. Presented for ukulele with melody line, chord diagrams and full lyrics.

Just for Fun: Christmas Mandolin contains over 40 classic Christmas songs. Most of the songs in the book feature three arrangements: the melody in notation and TAB, an easy rhythm option with a simple strum pattern and chords, and an intermediate-level rhythm option written in full notation and TAB. The intermediate rhythm option often combines full melody and chords, making it perfect not only for accompanying a singer and but also for solo performances for friends, family, and recitals. There's even a mandolin chord dictionary in the back of the book. Plus, this book correlates to the matching guitar, ukulele, and banjo editions, so you can have family Christmas jams and sing-alongs.TITLE COMPOSERDance of the Sugar Plum Fairy [Op. 71a, #3] Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (composer)The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditional (source)We Three Kings of Orient Are Christmas Traditional (source)God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen Traditional (source)Away in a Manger John R. Murray (contributor)O Christmas Tree Traditional (source)Up on the Housetop Christmas Traditional (source)It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Richard S. Willis (contributor) - Edmund H. Sears (lyricist)Jingle Bells James Pierpont (contributor)Silent Night Franz Grüber (contributor)Joy to the World George Frederic Handel (composer) - Isaac Watts (lyricist)What Child Is This? William Chatterton Dix (lyricist) - Traditional (source)I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day J. Baptiste Calkin (contributor) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (lyricist)We Wish You a Merry Christmas Traditional (source)O Come, All Ye Faithful Traditional (source)I Saw Three Ships Traditional (source)A Child This Day Is Born Traditional (source)Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Ralph Blane (composer) - Hugh Martin (lyricist)Deck the Halls Traditional (source)The Holly and the Ivy Auld Lang Syne Carol of the Birds Simple Gifts The First Noel Holy Night, Peaceful Night O Little Town of Bethlehem Hark! The Herald Angels Sing In the Bleak Midwinter Carol of the Bells Good King Wenceslaus Angels We Have Heard on High Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring March of the Toys (from 'Babes in Toyland') Go Tell It on the Mountain Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella O Come, O Come, Emmanuel Pat-A-Pan (Burgundian) O Holy Night Here We Come A-Caroling (The Wassail Song) Coventry Carol / Mandoline