How To Play Ukulele

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How to Play Ukulele Strums

Woodshed — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:40:19 +0000

On my blog, Ukulele Hunt, I get one question more than any other: “What’s the strumming pattern for this?” It was obvious that strumming was an area that many ukulele players weren’t comfortable with. So I wrote this ebook to give you everything you need to know to be confident in your strumming.

The problem is that there isn’t anything out there for the ukulele that gives you the ideas behind strumming patterns so you can work out strums for songs and come up with your own. They just give you a few patterns and leave you to get on with it. My aim with this ebook is to give you the knowledge to understand what’s going on behind the strums so you can play along with any song you choose.

Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

Get Your Timing Right

Knowing that a strumming pattern is down, up, up… is a good start, but you need to know how long each of those strums is supposed to last. So I’ve come up with a ukulele-brand based method that will help you get you strumming at the right time. It’s a case of matching up words to the length of the strums. It’s a simple way of doing it but it works great.

Never Be Stuck for a Strumming Pattern

Of course, I’m not going to neglect the strumming patterns themselves. The ebook contains a whole bunch of basic strumming patterns and some advanced ones in the style of ACDC, Nirvana, James Brown, Bo Diddley, The Specials and Bob Marley. There are mp3s of all the patterns (including slow and fast versions of most of them).

Get Your Technique Down

If you ever have problems with your arm getting tired after strumming, or your playing doesn’t sound bright enough, or your strumming sounds a little raggedy, or you can’t get your chnking down; the ebook will help you sort out your technical gremlins. There are videos of the various techniques including basic strums, chnks, muting and triplets.

Who Is It For?

This one is aimed at beginners and improvers who have learnt the basics but feel like there’s something about strumming that they’re just not getting. If you have trouble taking chord charts and matching them up to the song, or you feel like you’re muddling through and winging it a bit; it’ll increase your knowledge and confidence and improve your playing.

Everything is explained really simply, so you don’t need to have any knowledge of musical theory going into the ebook.

If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info.

What Are People Saying About It?

Thorough and thoroughly fantastic book! Thanks as always.

I’m sure my flatmates will be very grateful for it as well. With time, my practicing will (hopefully) sound like actual music rather than the sort of abstract noise that it was before and my flatties can stop voluntarily banning themselves from home until it’s clear that I’ve moved on to another task for the day.

In all seriousness: the book is wonderful, Thorough, easy to understand, and funny (as always). I am completely indebted to you for saving me from the depths of ukulele despair.

- Carrie Griffin

I shall be recommending the ebook to our Monday Ukearist ukers as I know many of them are interested in improving their strumming. I’ll also be unashamedly stealing your mnemonic way of teaching!

- John Hobson

Al’s topped himself this time which I wouldn’t have thought possible after the blues book.

This is a great read for beginners, but there are some strumming patterns at the end that are brilliant and will take some work to get the hang of.

When I started playing four years ago, I had no idea there would be such a great wealth of information available. Al’s books, in my opinion, are better than anything I’ve found elsewhere, as far as written instruction goes. And, he is rather hilarious when he wants to be.

- Lonna Brockway

I’ve already read this ebook more than 6 times and found something new with each read. A very important aspect for me was that the book covered basic things essential for strumming that are left out in other ukulele methods, such as rhythm and time signatures.

The examples and the videos are really helpful and you can even test out your newly acquired sense of rhythm through the exercises.

If there one book to buy on ukulele strumming, then it is definitely this one.

- Armelle

…it’s definitely set up for everyone at any level to learn something new. I get frustrated when teachers take the small bits of knowledge that make a BIG difference to a new student for granted. Al does the opposite by making sure that everything is explained in an accessible way that takes the mystery out.

Al’s teaching is very clear and well illustrated, and I would rec any of his work. I have Chord Progressions too; I will be working through that for awhile as well, there is just so much great information and there’s enough in each lesson to keep me interested and moving forward rather than get me discouraged like other books or authors.

- “Teek” on Ukulele Underground

What Do I Get?

You’ll get a pdf file of the ebook and a pdf of a printable version of the file. You’ll also get mp3s files of all the examples and video files of some of them. They’ll all be in zip files (check out the FAQ page for more info).

This one is slightly different to the way I’ve done it in the past. There are so many mp3s and videos that it made it too big for a single download. So you’ll get the pdf files as a single download (the same as my other ebooks) and the mp3s and videos will be a separate download. The links to all of them will be emailed to you automatically as soon as you buy.

Guarantee

If you check out the ebook and you decide it isn’t for you, let me know within 7 days of purchasing and I’ll give you a full refund. Just email me and let me know the email address you bought it with – you don’t need to give me a reason or anything. If the ebook doesn’t make you a better player, I don’t want your money (because swimming around in it, Scrooge McDuck style, is only fun if you’ve earned it).

How Can I Buy It? And How Much Is It?

To order it click ‘Add to Basket’ and go through the PayPal payment process.

Once you’ve paid, click ‘Complete Purchase’ to be taken to the download page. You’ll also be sent a link to the download page by email. So don’t worry if you miss it.

If you have any questions, leave a comment or send me a message.

The full contents of the ebook:

Introduction

1 Strumming Basics

1.1 Strumming Hand
1.2 Holding the Ukulele While Strumming
1.3 Where to Strum
1.4 How to Strum

2 Musical Basics

2.1 Tempo
2.2 Bars
2.3 Notation
2.4 Working Out Time Signatures
2.5 Exercises
2.6 Time Signatures and Metronomes

3 First Strumming Patterns

3.1 Down, Down, Down, Down
3.2 Down, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up
3.3 Notating Strums

4 Rhythm Basics

4.1 Foot Tapping and Counting Out
4.2 Mnemonics

5 Strumming Patterns

5.1 Ups and Downs
5.2 First Choice Strumming Pattern
5.3 Strumming Patterns in 4/4
5.4 Chord Changes Within Bars
5.5 Strumming Patterns in 3/4
5.6 Swing Strums
5.7 Strong Strums

6 Chnks and Mutes

6.1 Chnks
6.2 Mutes
6.3 Complex Strumming Patterns

7 Working Out Strumming Patterns

8 Advanced Strumming Techniques

8.1 Semi Quavers
8.2 Touch Strums
8.3 Triplet Strums
8.4 Changing Bar Lengths

9 Strumming and Genres

9.1 Blues Strumming
9.2 Bo Diddley Strumming
9.3 Reggae and Ska Strumming
9.4 James Brown Strumming

10 Strumming in Tabs

11 Conclusion

12 Exercise Answers

How to Play Ukuleles for Peace

Woodshed — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:10:00 +0000

Ukuleles for Peace is one of the most deserving charities around. It was set up by Israeli ukulelist Paul Moore to bring together Jewish and Arab children into a ukulele orchestra to play together, make friends and build links between the communities that stretch far beyond the group itself. You can find out more about Ukuleles for Peace in this video (and part 2 here).

To keep the project going and expanding, they need funding to provide ukuleles, kazoos and other accoutrements and that’s why the net’s best ukulele tabbers have got together to create an ebook with all the proceeds going directly to Ukuleles for Peace.

When you buy the ebook, you’ll get arrangements and tabs of 16 pieces from James Hill, Mark Kailana Nelson (writer of Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele), Dominator, Brian Hefferan, Ken Middleton, Wilfried Welti and Woodshed. All tabs come with an MP3 including an exclusive MP3 from James Hill.

Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

What do I get?

As well as a sense of pride at making a contribution to world peace, you’ll get a PDF file of each tab, 16 MP3s and a PDF file with notes on playing each tune. To find out more about these file types and download a test file, visit our FAQ page.

Here’s a selection of the pieces in the ebook:

Dominator/Brian Hefferan – Cotton Eyed Joe

James Hill – Era Una Vez

Ken Middleton – Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

Ken Middleton – Minstrel Boy

Mark Kailana Nelson – Kanaka Waiwai

Mark Kailana Nelson – Ukulele Slack Key

Wilfried Welti – Etude

Wilfried Welti – The Ash Grove

Woodshed – Misirlou/Hava Nagila

Woodshed – Ukulele Malaguena

Full contents:

Dominator/Brian Hefferan
- Cotton Eyed Joe

James Hill
- Era Una Vez

Ken Middleton
- Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
- Minstrel Boy
- Soldier’s Joy
- The Colosseum Hornpipe

Mark Kailana Nelson
- Kanaka Waiwai
- Ukulele Slack Key

Wilfried Welti
- Etude Aguado
- Lagrima
- Morning Has Broken
- The Ash Grove

Woodshed
- I’ll Fly Away
- Misirlou/Hava Nagila
- Ukulele Malaguena
- Ukulele Solea

If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info.

Cover photo by Charles Collier. Used under Creative Commons license.

How to Play Blues Ukulele

Woodshed — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:07:52 +0000

- Learn to improvise and jam in the blues style.

- Packed with ideas and techniques for blues soloing.

- Play riffs and licks in the style of blues musicians from Robert Johnson to Muddy Waters to Stevie Ray Vaughan.

- Blues chord patterns and strum patterns in a variety of styles.

- 80 examples with mp3s and 4 backing tracks to jam along with.

- Contains chord charts and tab for re-entrant, C-tuned ukulele.

What you get: A 78 page PDF file, 84 mp3 files, a printer-friendly pdf file, 7 pdf files containing scale and chord patterns. Download size: 27.3MB. To learn more about these file types and download a test file, visit our FAQ page. If you have any questions not answered there, please contact me here.

Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

To give you some idea of what you’ll be able to play, this is the final piece tabbed in the book which combines a number of the ideas contained in the ebook.

If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info.

Here’s what people are saying about the How to Play Blues Ukulele ebook:

This is a wonderful little tome. I’m not the kind of guy who learns how to play things or do things from books or manuals, I’ve always hated it. Yet I found the experience different when playing with this ebook. I learned to pick out just about everything you had in the ebook quickly and it was fun.

- Todd Mauldin of The Hellbusters

I’ve been teaching myself to play uke, and have to say that it was the music theory that got me stumped when it came to understanding such things as pentatonic blues scales and chord progressions for jamming. Despite the fact that i know some really great musicians, none of them have been able to explain it as clearly as simply as you lay it out in the book. Knowing the basic pattern relative to the root note (and how that works in second and third position too) has opened up a whole new uke world for me, just as i was getting stuck in tried and tested patterns, jigs and reels! It’s like i’ve been playing in black and white till now and suddenly i’m seeing in colour! It couldn’t have been explained better.

- Saul Jaffe

The book is amazing!!! so professional and, even more importantly, so USEFUL! I love the lessons, they’re broken down into manageable chunks, and the MP3s demonstrate everything so clearly! Really, you have done a stellar job.

I play blues (among other things) on uke all the time, but honestly, i have been stuck in a rut with my playing… I sat down and played with your book for just 20 minutes and it opened up all kinds of new ideas for me..such as using the C5 instead of the straight C. now I want to sit down and write some new songs using what i picked up. I can’t wait to get even more into the lessons! very exciting!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I am really going to enjoy playing with this!

- Pam Moore AKA Madame Pamita

Of all the written ukulele instruction I have poured through, this stands out above all the others. Every example is worth learning! I can’t bring myself to skim through the pages for fear that I will miss one small tidbit of great information. The mp3 examples are great, especially for picking up a particular rhythm in a selection.

Anyone who plays the ukulele should have a copy of this book.

- Lonna Brockway

1 Blues Chord Progressions

1.1 Shuffle Rhythm
1.2 12 Bar Blues
1.3 Variations on the 12 Bar Blues
1.4 The Blues Shuffle
1.5 Other Blues Chord Patterns

2 Blues Riffs

2.1 Muddy Waters Style Riff
2.2 John Lee Hooker Style Riff
2.3 Bo Diddley Style Riff
2.4 Stevie Ray Vaughan Style Riff

3 Intros, Outros and Turnarounds

3.1 Stevie Ray Vaughan Style
3.2 Robert Johnson Style
3.3 Descending Turnarounds
3.4 Turnaround To Outro

4 Blues Soloing Techniques

4.1 Blues Bends
4.2 Vibrato
4.3 Hammer-Ons & Pull-Offs
4.4 Slides

5 Blues Soloing

5.1 Minor Pentatonic Scale
5.2 Transposing the Pentatonic Scale
5.3 Improvising Tips
5.4 Self Accompanied Blues
5.5 Minor Pentatonic Second Position
5.6 Minor Pentatonic Third Position
5.7 Minor Pentatonic Fourth Position
5.8 Minor Pentatonic Fifth Position
5.9 Using the Re-Entrant String
5.10 The Blues Scale
5.11 Major Pentatonic Scale

6 Putting It All Together

If you have any questions or problems please email me at help@howtoplayukulele.com or use the contact page.

How to Play Classical Ukulele

Woodshed — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:35:32 +0000

Contains tabs for 7 classical tunes arranged for standard tuned ukulele:

Blue Danube – Strauss
Bridal Chorus – Wagner
Elephant – Saint-Saëns
Gran Vals – Tarrega
Orpheus in the Underworld – Offenbach
Pizzicato by Delibes
Toreador Song – Bizet

Watch them all here.

The focus is on tunes that you’ll have fun playing and that people will recognise and be impressed by. The focus isn’t on good classical technique or faithful recreations of the original works (in some of them I’ve sythed out the less famous sections). Some of them are tricky to play, some of them are more straight-forward. It’s definitely not for newbies.

You get individual pdf files of each of the tabs along with an ebook with my usual blathering and a few general pointers on playing. It’s not a full on guide to classical technique, more along the lines of the stuff that usually accompanies tabs on here. It’s all delivered digitally.

If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info.

Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

Why You Shouldn’t Buy It

You might not want to buy it if:

- You’ve never done any fingerpicking. There’s a variety of difficultly but none of them are suitable for beginners.
- You’re looking to develop classical technique:
- If you play soprano only: Some of the tunes use frets above the 12th.

What If I Get It And It Sucks?

As with all my stuff, if you don’t like it let me know within 7 days (with the email address you used to pay with) and I’ll send you full refund. No questions asked or seething resentment.

How Do I Buy It?

Click the ‘Add to Cart’ button below and hand over your money.

After you pay you’ll be taken to the download page and get it sent to you by email.

I Have A Question

If you have any questions, queries or problems you can email me at ukulelehunt@gmail.com or contact me here.

How to Play National Anthems

Woodshed — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:13:50 +0000

- Easy to play fingerpicking, solo ukulele arrangements of 8 national anthems.

- Australia, Canada, France, Germany, New Zealand, Russia, the UK, the USA.

- Ideal for people starting out with fingerpicking ukulele.

- What you get: A zip file containing a pdf file with all the tabs and notes for each anthem, individual pdfs of the tab for each tune, mp3s of all the anthems.

If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info.

Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

What people are saying:

There was the nice blend of humor along with the little nuggets of ukulele knowledge that I have come to expect from your books. The bits of history thrown in were great. We’ve been very underexposed over here to the history/National Anthems/idea that we’re not the only people on the planet. As a homeschooling mom, who fights against this very kind of ignorance and who teaches her kids to play the uke, this collection is something I will make use of.

I was able to play through 5 of the anthems last night without much difficulty, and felt quite confident I would be able to get to where I needed to be with these songs with just a little effort.
Lonna B

The ebook has been mentioned in the New York Times. You can read the article here.

To give you an idea of the difficulty level, here’s my arrangement of Scotland the Brave:

Scotland the Brave (Tab)
MP3

If you have any other questions check out our FAQ or get in touch with me.

Here’s how the arrangements sound:

Advance Australia Fair (mp3)

O Canada (mp3)

La Marseillaise (mp3)

Deutschlandlied (mp3)

God Defend New Zealand (mp3)

Hymn of the Russian Federation (mp3)

God Save the Queen (mp3)

Star Spangled Banner (mp3)

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Ukulele 101

Woodshed — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:58:15 +0000

- Learn all the things the beginners books leave out.

- Learn to read ukulele tab, understand musical terms and discover new techniques with mp3 and video examples.

- Links to 50 sites with ukulele chords and tabs.

- Advice on which budget ukulele to buy.

- How to adjust your ukulele and playing technique to improve how it sounds.

Please read the Frequently Asked Questions for full information on file formats and downloading. Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

When I’ve been looking through beginners ukulele books, I’ve always been a little frustrated about the things they leave out. They teach you to strum and play a few chords, maybe play a nursery rhyme or too, but leave out so many things. These might not be about physically playing songs on the ukulele, but are essential knowledge for people wanting to get the most out of the ukulele such as which ukulele to buy, how to look after it, the best ways to practice. In particular, books rarely even mention all the ukulele related resources that are online.

Ukulele 101 is intended as kind of a Ukulele Beginners Book 2.0. It fills in the blanks that other books leave.

If you still have a blank after reading the ebook, you’ll get a chance to fix that. As well as a pdf, mp3 files and video (mpg) files, you’ll also get the chance to ask me any question you think should be included in this book but isn’t. It might be a term people use all the time, a difficult chord or chord change, a certain technique, something in this book you didn’t understand. I can’t guarantee I’ll be able to answer it, but I’ll certainly do my best.

If you haven’t downloaded one of my ebooks before, please do check out FAQ for more info.

What people are saying:

I just wanted to say 101 things you need to know about ukulele and rag time ukulele E-books are fantastic and I found them really helpful I love the fact you put links as well for what equipment to use and such and links to ukulele tab sites also.

Vincent Wright

I have to Thank You for the excellent material you provide. As a Newbie it is very difficult andfrustrating to weed out the many learning formats available. Yours is by far one of the best I have come across so far. Your ability to keep it simple and organized in a manner to absorb even by a blockhead like myself is testament to your offerings.

Mark Shear

Ukulele 101

Buying a Ukulele

1. Where should I buy a ukulele?

2. Which Size Ukulele Should I Buy?

3. How Much Should I Spend?

4. What’s the best ukulele for under $50?

5. What’s the best ukulele for under $100?

6. What should I bear in mind when buying on eBay?

7. What sort of wood should a ukulele be?

8. I’m left-handed, do I need to buy a left handed ukulele?

9. What’s better geared or friction tuners?

10. Should I buy a banjo ukulele?

11. Should I buy an electric ukulele?

12. What’s a ‘low-G’ ukulele and should I buy one?

Strings

13. Does it matter what strings I use?

14. Which strings should I buy?

15. How do I replace strings?

16. How often should I replace strings?

17. Do I need different strings for different sizes of ukulele?

18. Do I need different strings for C-tuning and D-tuning?

19. Can I use guitar/mandolin/banjo strings on a ukulele?

20. How do I make strings last longer?

Ukulele Online

21. Where can I find tab and chords online?

22. Where can I learn chord shapes online?

23. Where can I find ukulele lessons and tutorials online?

24. What ukulele forums are there online?

25. Where can I hear ukulele music online?

26. How can I pick up a bargain on eBay?

27.What ukulele blogs are there?

28. Which YouTube channels should I be watching?

29. Where else can I find ukulele videos?

Making A Good Sound

30. How can I hear how I sound?

31. How should I hold the ukulele?

32. Where should I strum?

33. Can I use a guitar pick?

34. How can I look after my uke?

35. Why won’t my ukulele stay in tune?

36. What should I wear when I’m playing the ukulele?

Recording

37. What’s the best portable recorder?

38. What microphone should I get?

39. What software should I use?

40. How far from the mic should I be?

41. How can I put my music on the internet?

42. How can I sell my music on the internet?

Fonts, Software and Other Downloads

43. How can I put ukulele chord charts in word processing documents?

44. How can I make my own ukulele tabs?

45. How can I get in tune with my computer?

46. Where can I get a metronome online?

47. How can I improve my ear?

48. Where can I get ukulele icons?

Adjusting Your Ukulele

49. That sounds scary, should I do it?

50. What is intonation?

51. How can I measure how good my ukulele’s intonation is?

52. How can I improve my ukulele’s intonation?

53. How can I stop my ukulele buzzing?

Ukulele Accessories

54. How can I plug my ukulele into an amplifier?

55. Do I need to buy a tuner?

56. What’s a capo?

57. Do I need a strap?

58. Can I play the ukulele with a guitar pick?

59. Should I buy a metronome?

Practicing

60. How often should I practice?

61. Do I need to warm up?

62. What’s the most important thing when practicing?

63. How can I play faster?

64. Do I need to use a metronome when I practice?

Chord Charts

65. How do you read ukulele chord charts?

66. Why are there different chord shapes for the same chord?

Tab and Techniques

67. How are strings tabbed?

68. How are notes tabbed?

69. How is a sequence of notes tabbed?

70. How are notes that are played simultaneously tabbed?

71. How are chords tabbed?

72. How are strums tabbed?

73. How are rhythms shown?

74. How is rhythm shown in tab?

75. What are bars/measures?

76. How is fretting hand fingering shown?

77. How is picking hand fingering shown?

78. How are repeats tabbed?

79. What are tremolo strums and how are they tabbed?

80. How are rasguados played?

81. How do you play dotted notes?

82. How do you play tied notes?

83. What are triplets?

84. What is swing time?

85. How do you play hammer-ons?

86. How do you play pull-offs?

87. Can hammer-ons and pull-offs be used together?

88. How do you play slides?

89. How are shift slides different from normal slides?

90. How are slides into and out of a note tabbed?

91. What are all those crazy squiggles on the tab?

92. How are accented notes shown?

93. How do you make dead notes?

94. How do you play trills?

95. How do you produce vibrato?

96. What are grace notes?

97. How do you bend a note?

Easier Chords and Chord Changes

98. What’s the easiest way to play a D chord?

99. What’s the easiest way to play an E chord?

100. What’s the easiest way to change from F to Fm?

101. Your own question.

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How to Play Ukulele Chord Progressions

Woodshed — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:13:47 +0000

- Steal The Beatles’ favourite chord tricks.

- Never get stuck with that ‘what chord comes next?’ feeling.

- Know which chords sound great together and why.

- Jazz chords, chord substitution, chord extensions and many more demystified.

- See how to put together juicy, compelling chord progressions.

- Improve your ability to learn by ear by knowing which chords will occur when.

- Spice up your chord solos.

- Contains a pdf of over 50 pages packed with ideas, progressions and diagrams and mp3 examples of chord progressions.

- For C-tuned re-entrant ukulele.

Check out the first ten pages and some example mp3s (right click and select ‘Save Target As…’ to download):

Click here to read an excerpt

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Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

Here’s what people are saying about How to Play Ukulele Chord Progressions:

“This is the first time someone’s explained basic chord formation and scales and transposition in a way that makes sense to me”
Mike Dickison writer of Kiwi Ukulele

I started using the book – it’s great!!! This is really a helpful and friendly guide.
Jen Kwok

I am really glad I bought your chord progression theory book. You did just a great job! I am taking piano from my daughter’s classical teacher. He is great but somewhat hardcore classical. He tried to explain some of the theory to me, but I think that your book is way more accessible and directly applicable. And this comes from me, someone who has taken theory classes in the past!
Carol Seigal

“Your ‘How to play ukulele chord progressions’ is excellent. It cleared up a number of things for me. I’m just getting into music theory and having something that relates directly to the ukulele was very useful.”
Chris Double

The “How to Play Ukulele Chord Progressions” was great. I got a better sense of hamonized chords, and their fretboard relationship. The feelings the sounds generate for different chords, and how the tension is built and released really made sense.

This ebook is key to understanding chord relationships, and I can take my music to whole new levels.
Terry Truhart

The chord progression book is really great! It answered many questions I have had, and some that I didn’t even know to ask.
Dave Masinick

This is fabulous, you got nothing to worry about re: competiton or duplication in “The Fretboard Roadmaps” book, if anything your book will help me with understanding THAT.

Thanks so much, it’s brilliant, especially for people like me who have really only done a little self study (except for the mandatory music appreciation in college) and need some help in seeing how it all comes together. You make the most sense to me of anything so far, I appreciate having someone explain how it works. I’ve only been studying a bit since I got into ukes about 3 months ago and have learned more in 45 minutes that in all my previous years just fooling around trying to learn a bunch of chords.

VERY cool.
TK

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How To Play Christmas Ukulele

Woodshed — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:27:23 +0000

There usually comes a point on Christmas afternoon – particularly if you got a new uke – when one relative, usually the one who spent most of the rest of the year complaining about your incessant strumming, will pipe up and say, “Play something Christmas-y, then.”

So, while everyone else is sat around nursing swollen bellies, you have to get up and perform. What are you going to play?

In this ebook you get eleven traditional Christmas tunes. I’ve kept the arrangements as simple as I could (with fancy fingerpicking kept to a minimum) in the hope that it will still be possible to knock them out in that woozy, slightly tipsy Christmas afternoon state. I’ve also included arrangements of the

The tunes included are:

Auld Lang Syne
Deck the Halls
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Good King Wenceslas: Two versions one rocky and one more traditional
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Here We Come A-Wassailing
In the Bleak Midwinter
Silent Night
Sussex Carol
The Holly and the Ivy
Twelve Days of Christmas

Click the links to see me playing the full arrangements.

Quick warning: if you’re using iPad/iPhone/Android you can’t download directly to your gadget read this for more info.

What People Are Saying

An excellent selection of tabs and playing tips… I highly recommend picking it up.
Chris of The UkeCast.

Just have to say again that your “How to Play Christmas Ukulele” is really terrific. There is a fair amount of ukulele Christmas music out there but very little as good as your arrangements. All of your music is very easy to play as well a lot of fun to play.
Art Crocker

The selection of songs is great. There are popular favorites, along with some that I’d never heard of before. All are arranged for beginner to intermediate. I’m definitely in the beginner camp, but have been able to play a few bars of each… this eBook is a bargain.
Ukulele Review

What You Get

Once you’ve paid (payments handled by PayPal) you’ll be taken to the download page and receive an email with a link to the page where you can download a zip file containing:

- Tab for full arrangements 11 Christmas tunes for standard tuning (gCEA re-entrant). You can watch videos of all of them being played on YouTube.
- Tab and standard notation for the melodies only with accompanying chord boxes.
- A pdf file containing performance notes for all the tunes and descriptions of some of the techniques used.
- MP3s of all the melody arrangements. You can hear the melody being played and – after a bit fiddling with your balance knob – use them as a backing track.

If you haven’t bought an ebook from me before you might want to read the FAQ page for more information.

Welcome to How to Play Ukulele

Woodshed — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:18:23 +0000

How to Play Ukulele is aimed at helping you enjoy your ukulele playing. These ebooks are a companion to my blog, Ukulele Hunt, and give you the in-depth information on techniques, theory and styles that will help you take your playing to the next level. Find out more about ebooks on our FAQ page.

How To Play Ukulele

Beginner Multipack

New to Uke Pack

How to Play Ukulele Strums

Get Your Timing Right

Never Be Stuck for a Strumming Pattern

Get Your Technique Down

Who Is It For?

What Are People Saying About It?

What Do I Get?

Guarantee

How Can I Buy It? And How Much Is It?

Contents

How to Play Ukuleles for Peace

Full contents:

How to Play Blues Ukulele

Table of Contents

How to Play Classical Ukulele

Why You Shouldn’t Buy It

What If I Get It And It Sucks?

How Do I Buy It?

I Have A Question

How to Play National Anthems

Ukulele 101

How to Play Ukulele Chord Progressions

How To Play Christmas Ukulele

What People Are Saying

What You Get

Welcome to How to Play Ukulele