My musical knowledge and ability are fairly basic, so I appreciate arrangements and presentations of songs made with the ukulele in mind. The problem I frequently encounter is that the popular books seem to omit much of the actual song, sometimes being little more than the chorus.
Jim Beloff's Daily Ukulele and the Hal Leonard Easy Twenties Fake Book, for example, don't include the introduction and tend to jump right in at the best known sections. It's like starting Bohemian Rhapsody at the Wayne's World headbanging part: there's no balance, no build-up. Because I'm often trying to find versions of 20s and 30s tunes where the original sheet music either eludes me or has no chord indications, books like these can be the only accessible source, but what's the point of a book without the whole tune?
Luckily a great deal of the original sheet music is accessible online and does have annotations for ukulele (thank you May Singhi Breen!), but far from all. Am I the only one struggling with this? Is Tiny Tim's Tiptoe to blame?
Jim Beloff's Daily Ukulele and the Hal Leonard Easy Twenties Fake Book, for example, don't include the introduction and tend to jump right in at the best known sections. It's like starting Bohemian Rhapsody at the Wayne's World headbanging part: there's no balance, no build-up. Because I'm often trying to find versions of 20s and 30s tunes where the original sheet music either eludes me or has no chord indications, books like these can be the only accessible source, but what's the point of a book without the whole tune?
Luckily a great deal of the original sheet music is accessible online and does have annotations for ukulele (thank you May Singhi Breen!), but far from all. Am I the only one struggling with this? Is Tiny Tim's Tiptoe to blame?