ukulele book?

luke104 · Jun 21, 2008

hey im looking to get a ukulele book! but theres to many to choose from!

what ones do you recommend?

Kanaka916 · Jun 21, 2008

Are you talking about a chord book?

hawaiianmusiclover06 · Jun 21, 2008

I would recommend the 'ukulele book entitled Discovering the 'Ukulele written by Herb Ohta, Jr. and Daniel Ho.

UkuLeLesReggAe · Jun 22, 2008

I do not reccommend 'uke.n play ukulele" or something like that.. its good for like, 3 year olds... if you can play more than somewhere over the rainbow... not needed.

Kaneohe til the end · Jun 22, 2008

hawaiianmusiclover06 said:
I would recommend the 'ukulele book entitled Discovering the 'Ukulele written by Herb Ohta, Jr. and Daniel Ho.

i have that beginner one, the intermediate book, and the chord book from roy sakuma, all from mgm, it came with my koaloha tenor

UkeNinja · Jun 22, 2008

UkuLeLesReggAe said:
I do not reccommend 'uke.n play ukulele" or something like that.. its good for like, 3 year olds... if you can play more than somewhere over the rainbow... not needed.

I agree that you can figure out stuff with chords and such easily from the web, but getting a decent book with some easy solo stuff and picking patterns is nice to get started and learn some fun and easy melodies to play. Even if you use it for only a few weeks, you can get some ideas to practice picking and get familiar with the fretboard. This will help a lot to work out more complicated tabs, including the great stuff that is posted here. Don't know about western stuff, but they have stacks of those books for sale here in Japan for about $8-10.

UkuLeLesReggAe · Jun 22, 2008

UkeNinja said:
I agree that you can figure out stuff with chords and such easily from the web, but getting a decent book with some easy solo stuff and picking patterns is nice to get started and learn some fun and easy melodies to play. Don't know about western stuff, but they have stacks of those books for sale here in Japan for about $8-10.

all it says is... some stupid songs with chords under it which you could easily get over the net, not tabs or anything.. and it has a little summary on how to play the chords.. this forum has x100 more information than that book alone.

no offence to the book

i suppose people who have no acces to internet can use the book...

UkeNinja · Jun 22, 2008

Right, I agree that the majority of "beginner" books use a lot of space to tell you what a string is and where it goes on the uke. Getting a more technique-oriented book could be a good investment though. Don't know the book in question, just a general experience-based advice.

UkuLeLesReggAe · Jun 22, 2008

UkeNinja said:
Right, I agree that the majority of "beginner" books use a lot of space to tell you what a string is and where it goes on the uke. Getting a more technique-oriented book could be a good investment though. Don't know the book in question, just a general experience-based advice.

yeah your right. I wanted a book that was pretty good and taught me some songs, but the net does me fine now.. searched to long and wasn't pleased with many. + shipping like $100 so yeah.. no point

ricdoug · Jun 22, 2008

For a beginner's book:

http://ukuleletonya.com/files/beginner_lesson_pkg.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20060815081158/http://www.ukulele.org/fleabag.html

For beginner, intermediate and theory:

http://www.ukuleleintheclassroom.com/resources_D6.htm

For chordbook:

http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/tabs.html

UkuleleHill · Jun 22, 2008

ricdoug said:
For a beginner's book:

http://ukuleletonya.com/files/beginner_lesson_pkg.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20060815081158/http://www.ukulele.org/fleabag.html

For beginner, intermediate and theory:

http://www.ukuleleintheclassroom.com/resources_D6.htm

For chordbook:

http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/tabs.html

This is exactly what I have been looking for! Thanks!!

dajoka · Jun 22, 2008

if you're looking for some tabs to work on ... don't forget Dominator's site:

http://dominator.ukeland.com/index2.shtml

ricdoug · Jun 22, 2008

UkuleleHill said:
This is exactly what I have been looking for! Thanks!!

Glad to be of service. Ric

ricdoug · Jun 22, 2008

dajoka said:
if you're looking for some tabs to work on ... don't forget Dominator's site:

http://dominator.ukeland.com/index2.shtml

Dom is great!

Here's a list, I've compiled, including Dom:

http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/tabs.html

http://www.nashukes.com/support-files/8-songsthru200.pdf

http://www.brookadams.com/jumping-flea/ukeSongs.html

http://www.seattleukulele.org/members

http://www.bizcardpro.com/kolohe/Songbook.html

http://www.ukulizer.com/show_files.php?dir=english&title=English+ukulele+songs

http://ukuleletonya.com/files/beginner_lesson_pkg.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20060815081158/http://www.ukulele.org/fleabag.html

http://www.ukeland.com/pages/media/music

http://www.tusc.co.uk/media/tuscsongbook1.pdf

http://www.tusc.co.uk/media/tuscsongbook2.pdf

http://www.tusc.co.uk/media/tuscsongbook3sixties.pdf

http://www.tusc.co.uk/media/tuscbook4.pdf

http://www.tusc.co.uk/media/mooglymoosongbook.pdf

http://www.tusc.co.uk/media/Ukulele Christmas Song Book.pdf

http://www.ukuleleintheclassroom.com/resources_D6.htm

http://dominator.ukeland.com/index2.shtml

http://www.ukuke.co.uk/UkuleleChristmasSongBook.pdf

On the right hand side, you can change this link from
guitar to Ukulele chords:

http://www.chordie.com/publicbooks.php?show=details&songid=98977

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