Ukulele Music & Song Books
Take your uke along while dashing to your holiday gatherings this year, and don't forget to bring this essential collection of 26 Christmas classics.
Over 35 festive favourites arranged for ukulele!
Classic Christmas songs and carols to strum and sing, for all ukuele players!
John King The Classical Ukulele is a collection of 19 classical and traditional works ingeniously arranged for ukulele by John King.
Here are seventeen all time favourite hit songs that are ideal for Ukulele accompaniment.
Complete with lyrics and chord boxes, this collection is the ideal way to improve you Uke skills by playing real songs that everyone can sing!
25 popular songs for the ukulele in standard music notation, tablature and easy chords. To get the most out of this book, you'll want to replace the fourth (high G) string with one of a heavier gauge and tune it an octave lower to get that full, deep sound – a lá Hawaiian uke virtuoso Jesse Kalima – in playing the melodies in this book. The chords can be played with or without the low G sound.
Beatles Hits For Ukulele is a songbook that contains 20 fantastic, classic Beatles songs beautifully arranged for Ukulele, including The Long And Winding Road, Day Tripper, When I'm Sixty-Four and more.
Strum away to 20 of the most timeless classics from one of the most famous bands of all time, The Beatles. With this fantastic collection of music in your repertoire, you are sure to impress friends and family.
From blues to bluegrass, uke can play it all! In this one-of-a-kind book and CD pack, you get over a hundred authentic licks notated for the ukulele in standard notation and tablature.
From Lute to Uke: Early Music for Ukulele is a collection of 24 pieces of early lute music brilliantly arranged for the ukulele by classical guitarist and uke player, Tony Mizen. All arrangements are for GCEA-tuning and include ukulele tablature as well as music notation. A CD is included with delightful performances of all the arrangements by Mr. Mizen, which is enjoyable listening all by itself. Also featured is a brief history of the lute and each of the individual pieces.
20 favourite Scottish and Irish tunes, brilliantly arranged for fingerstyle Ukulele by Rob MacKillop. Titles include such well-known session tunes as Drowsy Maggie, The Kesh Jig, The Connaught Man's Rambles and The Wind That Shakes The Barley. Rob is a master of the campanella style of Ukulele fingering, which exploits the unique tuning of the ukulele, and which helps these airs, jigs and reels flow across the fingerboard effortlessly, at times sounding like a small Celtic Harp. The audio download available online contains all 20 pieces performed by Rob MacKillop, hailed in Celtic World as 'One of Scotland's finest musicians'.
Strum along to some of the most famous classical themes of all-time on the ukulele in standard notation and tab! Includes 15 songs: Ave Maria (Schubert) · Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) · Canon in D (Pachelbel) · Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade) (Mozart) · Für Elise (Beethoven) · Habañera (Bizet) · Morning (Grieg) · Rondeau (Mouret) · Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) · and more.
Scales for Soprano Ukulele provides fingering diagrams, construction formulas in whole and half steps (in standard notation) and application (usage) for the most common scales used in improvisation and composition. This easy to read and understand book is packed full of scalar information. Scales are shown with roots on the 4th, 3rd and 2nd strings. Scales and modes shown include Major, Minor, Harmonic Minor, Pentatonic, Dorian, Phrygian, and Mixolydian. Each scale is shown in fretboard diagrams. Can be used with soprano and tenor ukuleles in C tuning, D tuning and Low G tuning. A must have for ukulele players.
This book and accompanying audio offer a unique look into playing the music of Bach on the ukulele. Included are twenty duets for two ukuleles or ukulele and guitar. The first part in the duet can be played on either soprano, concert or tenor ukulele, and the second part on either baritone ukulele or guitar. This collection contains beautiful arrangements of many of Bach's most popular pieces. Some of the arrangements are simple, some complex, but most are of intermediate difficulty. The accompanying audio contains breathtakingly beautiful performances by ukulele maestro Rob MacKillop, and historical guitar specialist Gordon Ferries, making it wonderful in its own right.Included are pieces such as Sheep May Safely Graze: Minuet in G: Sleepers Awake: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring: and many other classic tunes. Includes access to online audio.
Learn fashionable and evocative tunes from 19th-century America! Originally collected for the fretless minstrel banjo, many of these tunes were taught to Tom Briggs on Southern plantations, and are the sound of a new, vibrant America. Mixing early Black banjo music, with European dances, a new popular music was born, which, in the following decades, would mature into ragtime and jazz.Rob MacKillop arranged these pieces for fingerstyle ukulele. They sound great on either a standard uke or on a banjo ukulele. Includes access to an online audio recording containing performances of all 20 pieces by Rob MacKillop on a banjo ukulele.
With the same arranging expertise shown in his other Mel Bay solo ukulele collections, Ondrej Sarek presents these 25 lyrical North American melodies. The selections are derived from popular themes by known and unknown composers from the Colonial Era to the 21st century, including folk ballads, Civil War melodies, songs by Stephen Foster, a 19th century piece by Edward MacDowell, and a half-dozen clearly modern but lyrical compositions by William Bay. Written in standard notation and tablature for the soprano or concert ukulele tuned GCEA.
Here are 28 all-time favourite that are ideal for Ukulele accompaniment!
Complete with lyrics and chord boxes, this collection is the ideal way to improve your Uke skills by playing real songs that everyone can sing!
What could be more enjoyable than sitting in the sun and strumming some of your favourite Beach Boys tunes on your Uke? This folio features 20 favourites.
Rodgers & Hammerstein For Ukulele allows you to play 20 classic show tunes from this beloved songwriting duo on your uke!
50 popular songs for ukulele players of all levels. Includes Hawaiian songs, popular standards, classic Western, Stephen Foster, more: "The Aba Daba Honeymoon," "After the Ball," "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," "Hot Lips," "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue," "Gentle Annie," "Maikai Waipio," "Linger Awhile," "Whispering," "Ja-Da," "China Boy," "The Colorado Trail," "Old Folks At Home," "Sweet Lei Lehua," more. Includes a chord chart and a section on holding and strumming the ukulele. Melody in note/tab with chord symbols and lyrics
The Ed Sheeran Ukulele Chord Songbook is a collection featuring all of Ed Sheeran's songs from both of his chart-topping albums, arranged for Ukulele. With 35 songs arranged from the actual recordings, in the original keys, this songbook is the perfect collection for anyone looking to learn Ed Sheeran on the Ukulele.
Featuring all of Sheeran's biggest hits from his first album '+' and his follow up effort 'X', the Ed Sheeran Ukulele Chord Songbook includes The A Team, All Of The Stars, I See Fire, Lego House and Thinking Out Loud. With the hottest hit singles and every single other track from both albums, the songbook boasts complete lyrics, chord symbols and chord boxes, helping you to perform your own versions as accurately as possible.
The acoustic brilliance of Ed Sheeran's two albums perfectly translates to the sound of the Ukulele. Whether it's playing along to the records, having a singalong at a party, or just practising in the park, the quickfire lyrics and rhythmic strumming lends itself very well to the portability and bright sound of the instrument.
The Ed Sheeran Ukulele Chord Songbook is the ideal collection for any Ed Sheeran fan wishing to learn all of the pop prince's catchy tunes on their Uke. 35 songs from his two studio albums will definitely keep you strumming and singing for hours.
The Ukulele Play-Along Series has been created to help you to play your favourite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro!
This method and songbook by renowned tutor Fred Sokolow is two Ukulele books in one – one for Slide and the other for Slack Key Ukulele.