How to Play the Ukulele for the Complete Ignoramus (Book/CD Set)
Learning to play the ukulele has never been easier! Ted & Wayne will walk you through everything you need to know to get started playing the ukulele. You will learn how to select the right uke, how to tune it, a variety of strums and how to play the melody and backup to 37 folk, swing, Hawaiian and gospel favorites. Includes easy-to-read tab, simple chord diagrams, and an instructional audio CD.
Product Number:
NGB109
Format:
Book/CD Set
Skill Level:
Beginning
Notation Type:
Tab and Fretboard Diagram
Pages:
104
Binding:
Spiral
Size:
9 x 12
ISBN:
1-8832-0698-7
ISBN13:
978-18832-0698-7
Series:
Ignoramus
Publisher:
Native Ground Music, Inc.
Date Published:
8/24/2015
Learning to play the ukulele has never been easier! Ted & Wayne will walk you through everything you need to know to get started playing the ukulele. You will learn how to select the right uke, how to tune it, a variety of strums and how to play the melody and backup to 37 folk, swing, Hawaiian and gospel favorites. Includes easy-to-read tab, simple chord diagrams, and an instructional audio CD.

Welcome to the Ukulele!  

A Brief History of the Uke  

Choosing a Ukulele

How to Hold the Ukulele

Tuning the Ukulele  

Left Hand Chording

Right Hand Strumming  

More Strums  

Waltz Strums   

Following the Song Charts   

Playing the Melody   

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star  

What a Typical Page Looks Like  

Go Tell Aunt Rhody  

Whole World in His Hands

Buffalo Gals  

When the Saints Go Marching In  

Camptown Races

Oh, Susanna  

Clementine  

Amazing Grace  

This Little Light of Mine  

Do Lord  

Molly Malone (Cockles & Mussels)

Wabash Cannonball  

Home on the Range

The Water is Wide

Down in the Valley  

On Top of Old Smoky

 She’ll be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain

Red River Valley

Aloha ‘Oe  

Aura Lee  

Simple Gifts

Down by the Riverside  

Skip to My Lou  

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Shortenin’ Bread  

Shady Grove  

Man of Constant Sorrow  

Bring Me a Little Water, Silvie

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot  

Take Me Out to the Ballgame  

Driftless Rag  

Kickapoo Rag   

Ukulele Boogie-Woogie

Careless Love

Trouble in Mind  

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad  

Auclair de la Lune  

House of the Rising Sun

Scarborough Fair

Fingerpicking the Ukulele  

The Chord Study

Ukulele Chords  

Ukulele Strums   

About the Authors  

Song Index  

 

 
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