I like to keep learning new songs and trying to play new songs, and I like solo ukulele. I think I've found most of the sites on the web that offer free tab, and I think I've bought every book off Amazon that offers ukulele tabs. And I've bought tabs off of several sites.
Periodically I've toyed with buying all of Colin Tribe's tabs. I have tried a few of them over the years, but I finally took the plunge and bought the lot of them. The package I got had 800 tabs.
A handful are really simple, and a handful are east Indian music and a few other things I'm not interested in. However, probably more than 700 of them are pop tunes or standards or show tunes with a smattering of classical.
The arrangements contain standard notation and tab, which I find helpful. They are very easy to read. My complaint with a lot of the free tab is that it is hard to decipher, even when printed and not handwritten. They are also musically excellent. The chord voicings are exactly right, and musically the arrangements how together. They also have proper intros and endings.
About a third of them I can sight read pretty well and could probably polish up with a little bit of practice. About a third of them I can sight read most of the piece but have a few passages that I need to work on. The remaining third are all playable, but I'll need to work on them a bit. None of them seems so hard as to be particularly daunting. While I can make my own arrangements I don't particularly like the embellishments that I add or the chord voicings that I use. Playing these arrangements is giving me a lot of good ideas.
Colin sells his Beatles arrangements separately (but includes them in the bundle). If you don't want to spend the full amount, the Beatles bundles are really good. He does a great job with Beatles songs.
The overall collection is really amazing. I'm really glad that I bought them.
Periodically I've toyed with buying all of Colin Tribe's tabs. I have tried a few of them over the years, but I finally took the plunge and bought the lot of them. The package I got had 800 tabs.
A handful are really simple, and a handful are east Indian music and a few other things I'm not interested in. However, probably more than 700 of them are pop tunes or standards or show tunes with a smattering of classical.
The arrangements contain standard notation and tab, which I find helpful. They are very easy to read. My complaint with a lot of the free tab is that it is hard to decipher, even when printed and not handwritten. They are also musically excellent. The chord voicings are exactly right, and musically the arrangements how together. They also have proper intros and endings.
About a third of them I can sight read pretty well and could probably polish up with a little bit of practice. About a third of them I can sight read most of the piece but have a few passages that I need to work on. The remaining third are all playable, but I'll need to work on them a bit. None of them seems so hard as to be particularly daunting. While I can make my own arrangements I don't particularly like the embellishments that I add or the chord voicings that I use. Playing these arrangements is giving me a lot of good ideas.
Colin sells his Beatles arrangements separately (but includes them in the bundle). If you don't want to spend the full amount, the Beatles bundles are really good. He does a great job with Beatles songs.
The overall collection is really amazing. I'm really glad that I bought them.