Suggestions for beginner fingerstyle/picking songs

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• Mar 25, 2014

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hi all,
I'm looking for some suggestions for good fingerstyle songs to start with. Would prefer if Tab and video were available.

I've done some fingerstyle exercises but I feel like an actual song might help more.

thanks

 

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• Mar 25, 2014

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Try here:
http://www.capotastomusic.com/ukulele-sheet-music/tabs.htm

They have some good basic songs.

 

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• Mar 25, 2014

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http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Classica...764380&sr=8-1&keywords=easy+classical+ukulele

http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Play-Fingerstyle-Solos-Ukulele/dp/0786673427/ref=cm_cr_dp_asin_lnk

The Easy Classical solos are all easy but complex enough that they sound good. A more advanced player can use these as a foundation and beef them up, a beginner can get challenged and still have fun.

The Mark Kailana Nelson Learn to play Fingerstyle is the best of the various finger style instruction books I've found.

 

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• Mar 25, 2014

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katysax said:

http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Classica...764380&sr=8-1&keywords=easy+classical+ukulele

The Easy Classical solos are all easy but complex enough that they sound good. A more advanced player can use these as a foundation and beef them up, a beginner can get challenged and still have fun.

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I can't really recommend that book. See comments and some other ideas in this thread:

http://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/showthread.php?76263-Music-book-recommendations

 

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• Mar 25, 2014

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Thanks Bob!

Bob-in-Alberta said:

Try here:
http://www.capotastomusic.com/ukulele-sheet-music/tabs.htm

They have some good basic songs.

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• Mar 25, 2014

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Mark Kailana Nelson Learn to play Fingerstyle

 

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• Mar 26, 2014

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Sammantha Muir has a couple of good e-books and she also has videos of many of the pieces.
http://www.samanthamuir.com/ukulele-2/the-little-book-of-sor.html

 

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• Mar 26, 2014

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Here's another book by Wilfried Welti;
http://ukulelehunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/solobuch1.pdf

 

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• Mar 26, 2014

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thanks everyone!

 

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• Mar 26, 2014

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Agree with the mark kailana nelson books, I found them very good when I started.
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• Mar 26, 2014

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I started with Aldrine's La Vie En Rose video with the fingerpicking intro that is on the home page of Ukulele Underground.

Right now, I am doing this set of videos on the Travis pick. Lesson 6 shows how to do it, and Lesson 7 applies it in the intro song Dust in the Wind. Lesson 11 continues it. For some reason, his explanations work for me more than just reading a tab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjcYhPF6COc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTfK8th4qbw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AirDW9VC_A0

I just used this page of tab and wrote notations for my use while watching the videos.
http://www.bytownukulele.ca/BUGMedia/tabid/906/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1484/Dust-in-the-Wind--Kansas.aspx

 

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• Mar 28, 2014

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seanmorr said:

hi all,
I'm looking for some suggestions for good fingerstyle songs to start with. Would prefer if Tab and video were available.

I've done some fingerstyle exercises but I feel like an actual song might help more.

thanks

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Ken Middleton has a few easy ones that sound good try Down by the sally garden and wildwood flower.
http://www.kenmiddleton.co.uk/Pages/FreeTabDownloads.aspx

 

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• Mar 30, 2014

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What is finger- style is it a broad term or something specific.

Also I found this at cheezland site on the net (you will have to search for it)

60 Minutes and 4 Chords That Will Change Your Life!

It is supposed to be for kids but it will keep me going for a while. It is just a few easy chords that are rough enough/close enough to get you started without too much finger twist and you can play lots of songs.