This is the ultimate self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and a professional quality CD with 61 full-demo tracks. It can be used by students who want to teach themselves or by teachers for private or group instruction. Simply follow the tips and lessons in the book as you listen to the teacher on the CD. This book includes over 60 great songs and covers: songs, chords and melodies; picking and strumming; playing tips and techniques; music notation; and more.

Take your uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales, chord-based licks, and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature and played on the accompanying CD. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the ukulele.

Play along with your favorite tunes from the Beatles, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Simon and Garfunkel, and more! The songs are presented in the order of difficulty, beginning with simple rhythms and melodies and ending with chords and notes up the neck. You can also strum and sing along using the provided lyrics and ukulele chord diagrams. Songs include: I Walk the Line * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Tom Dooley * We Shall Overcome * Your Cheatin' Heart * and more.

The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone just learning to play ukulele. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by acclaimed performer and uke master Lil' Rev includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The accompanying CD contains 46 tracks of songs for demonstration and play along. Includes: types of ukuleles, tuning, music reading, melody playing, chords, strumming, scales, tremolo, music notation and tablature, a variety of music styles, ukulele history and much more.

While the ‘ukulele is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance on the mainland, in the land of it's birth, it has never gone out of style. Hawaiian's took to the "jumping flea" right from the start, creating music of stunning beauty and versatility. Now intermediate players can learn to play lovely finger style solo arrangements of classic Hawaiian songs, folk songs, standards–even a few pieces from the classical guitar repertoire. The book offers 27 arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature playable on any ‘ukulele. Songs are grouped according to level of difficulty, starting with simple arrangements well within the grasp of dedicated beginners and intermediate players and leading through more challenging songs featuring unusual chord voicings, inversions up the neck, tricky fingerings and "all the fun stuff" the author could muster. To aid the student, the companion CD includes all of the songs taught. Includes chord charts, inversion studies, introductory material on finger-picking and making the transition from strumming to melodic playing.

Ukulele players can strum, sing and pick along with 20 Beatles classics! Includes: All You Need Is Love * Eight Days a Week * Good Day Sunshine * Here, There and Everywhere * Let It Be * Love Me Do * Penny Lane * Yesterday * and more.

Step-by-step pictures take you from first-day exercises to playing along with a backing track! Absolute Beginners has been designed to tell you everything you need to know from the very first time you play your ukulele. In one great book you get: a look-and-learn course that uses clear pictures instead of long explanations; practical advice and tips covering everything you need to know to get you playing, fast!; CD audio tracks to show you how things should sound, plus full-length accompaniment tracks to play along with!; and more. It's simply everything you need! An owner's manual approach to your ukulele that makes learning easier than ever before!

Arranged for Guitar & Ukulele With Lyrics. Seventeen beautiful songs transcribed for guitar and ukulele exactly as played by IZ. Includes his breathtaking version of "Over the Rainbow" as heard on the soundtracks to Finding Forester, 30 First Dates, and "ER." There are also four pages of color photos featuring Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole, the Hawaiian singer with an unparalleled voice. Renowned throughout the world for his music, his spirit lives on through his albums. This folio features 17 of his most beloved songs from those albums. Titles are: Hawai’i ’78 * White Sandy Beach * ’Opae E * Kaleohano * Na Ka Pueo * Hi’ilawe * N Dis Life (In This Life) * Ka Pua U’i * Kuhio Bay * Henehene Kou ’Aka * Panini Puakea * Wind Beneath My Wings/He Hawai’i Au * Starting All Over Again * Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World * Kamalani.

Blues Ukulele is a collection of 16 blues standards arranged for the ukulele by Fred Sokolow. Each song comes with two arrangements: The first one gives you lyrics, melody and uke chord grids to strum while singing. The second is a uke chord/melody tab arrangement, so you can play the song's melody and chords simultaneously with a lot of blues licks thrown in. Includes a CD with arrangements of each song played and sung by Fred Sokolow. Includes: Beale Street Blues * C.C. Rider * Limehouse Blues * Midnight Special * St. James Infirmary * St. Louis Blues * 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do * and 9 others.

Jumpin' Jim's '60s Uke-In is a collection of 25 fab songs from the 1960s arranged for the very first time for ukulele. It includes lots of big Beatles hits (All My Loving * Eight Days a Week * Here Comes the Sun * Michelle * Penny Lane * Something * When I'm Sixty-Four * Yellow Submarine * and more) as well as other classic '60s tunes, such as: Daydream Believer * Georgy Girl * Happy Together * Moon River * Those Were the Days * and more. Features an appreciation by George Harrison, a foreword by Jumpin' Jim, a chord chart, and a groovy, psychedelic cover.