Do-It-Yourself Ukulele

Learn to play the ukulele and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred Music. 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

Bibliothèque de Uke facile : Noël blanc et autres 17 de favoris Festive festives classiques spécialement adaptés pour les joueurs d'ukuele de débutant. Le Facile Uke Library, fournit fantastiques collections de chansons tout spécialement adaptées pour les joueurs d'ukulele débutant. Tous les livres comprennent la ligne de la mélodie, paroles complètes et faciles à lire les diagrammes d'accords / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Mélodie, Chant et Guitare

The Best Step-by-Step Guide to Start Playing for Soprano, Concert, or Tenor Ukulele

Over 250 great songs packed into one handy portable book! Includes melody/lyrics/chords for: All I Want for Christmas Is You · All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth · Baby It's Cold Outside · Do You Hear What I Hear · Blue Christmas · Feliz Navidad · Brazilian Sleigh Bells · Frosty the Snow Man · Caroling Caroling · Goin' on a Sleighride · The Chipmunk Song · Grown-Up Christmas List · Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) · Happy Xmas (War Is Over) · Hard Candy Christmas · Christmas Is · Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas · The Christmas Shoes · Here Comes Santa Claus (Right down Santa Claus Lane) · The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) · (There'sNo Place Like) Home for the Holidays · Christmas Time Is Here · I'll Be Home for Christmas · Christmas Wrapping · I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm · It's Beginning to Look like Christmas · It's Christmas in New York · Jingle Bell Rock · Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! · Little Saint Nick · A Marshmallow World · Mele Kalikimaka · Merry Christmas Darling · The Most Wonderful Time of the Year · My Favorite Things · Nuttin' for Christmas · Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree · Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer · Santa Bring My Baby Back (To Me) · Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town · Silver and Gold · Silver Bells · Sleigh Ride · Snowfall · This Christmas · What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? · White Christmas · Wonderful Christmastime · You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch · You're All I Want for Christmas · and more.

The Very Best Of Adele For Ukulele features 14 of Adele's best and best-known songs arranged for Ukulele hand-picked from her two massively successful albums 19 and21.  This exclusive Ukulele songbook includes chord symbols Ukulele chord boxes complete lyrics as well as suggested strumming patterns and rhythms for each song. You may think that Adele and theUkulele don't belong together but we can assure you they do. Take such a brilliant songwriter as Adele who clearly knows her way around a catchy tune and put her together with a fun instrument that is portable easy to pick upand play and perfect for plucking you've got yourself a great formula.  Adele's songs like Rolling In The Deep Chasing Pavements and Set Fire To The Rain go great with thebright and joyful sound of the Uke making this songbook perfect for anyone who loves putting a unique spin on established pop songs. Not only is the Ukulele a fun instrument that is ideal for a beach or a park on a summer's day it's also a serious musical tool that can allow you to bring a new dimension to your performance of Adele's masterful tunes. When people hear you playing these songs on the Uke it'll make them sit up and listen being aninnovative way of playing tunes that have been covered in the traditional way too many times. So if you think you'd like to play the songs of Adele on your Ukulele be sure to check out The VeryBest Of Adele For Ukulele  our expertly-arranged song book that will teach you every word and chord for 14 of her incredible pop songs and ballads for your Ukulele performance or practicepleasure.

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 CD includes beautiful recordings of all the music in the book and can be played on your CD player or downloaded to your iPod® or other mp3 player. 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

Ukulele Play-Along Volume 38-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 online audio files include PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys pan left or right and more. T his volume includes 8 of your favorite contemporarysongs: After You've Gone • All the Things You Are • I Got Rhythm • Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) • Li'l Darlin' • Lullaby of Birdland • Pick Yourself Up • Take Five.

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