- 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.
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Ukulele 101

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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.

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

Price: $9

Beginner’s Pack

Contains this ebook together with How To Play Ukulele Chord Progressions saving $4.

Price: $22

Here’s a complete list of the questioned answered in the ebook:

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.

Ukulele 101

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Contains this ebook together with How To Play Ukulele Chord Progressions saving $4.

Price: $22

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Once you click ‘buy now’, you’ll be taken to PayPal for secure payment (accept payments from PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, AmEx and more). When you click ‘Complete Purchase’ you’ll receive an email with a link to the download page. If you have any questions or problems please email me at help@howtoplayukulele.com or use our contact page.

- 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

How to Play Ukulele Chord Progressions

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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 of Mike’s Ukulele Page

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

How to Play Ukulele Chord Progressions

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Once you click ‘buy now’, you’ll be taken to PayPal for secure payment (accept payments from PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, AmEx and more). When you click ‘Complete Purchase’ you’ll be taken to a page where you can download your ebook (download time will vary depending on your connection speed). You’ll also receive an email with a link to the download page.

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

- Learn all the elements you need to create your own ragtime tunes.

- Full tab and standard notation of 12th Street Rag, Tiger Rag, Maple Leaf Rag, The Easy Winners, Black & White Rag, St. Louis Rag and Dill Pickles.

- Challenging arrangements.

- MP3 examples and midi file of the full tracks.

- For C-tuned re-entrant tuned ukulele.

How to Play Ragtime Ukulele

Price:$17

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Download the mp3 of 12th Street Rag

“I’m really enjoying your rag book.”
John Kavanagh who also recommended it in his article about ragtime ukulele on Ukulele Yes!.

What you get:

- PDF file examining the elements of ragtime including tab examples (with mp3s)
- PDF files of tab for each tune.
- MIDI files of each tune.

All to often, challenging pieces of music can sound like technical exercise, be dull to play and put your audience to sleep. Ragtime music, on the other hand, is full hooks, skips and runs that are fun to play and entertaining to hear. Just playing these tunes around the house, I’ve noticed how people react to ragtime tunes. They’ll wander into the room, start grinning and doing a little comedy-dance routine, or they’ll burst into the room and say, “That’s that one off that film. I like that one. Play it again.”

Download the mp3 of Tiger Rag

There’s something about ragtime music that makes people smile. There’s no wonder that it became the most popular music of its day, has had repeated revivals and remains popular today.

These arrangements are challenging. It’s only fair to warn you, they’re not suitable for beginners.

Download the mp3 of The Easy Winners

You will get a zip file containing:

- Pdf files of all pieces in standard notation and tablature.

- A pdf containing performance notes for each piece, an in depth analysis of the ragtime style and a short history of ragtime.

- Audio examples midi and mp3.

If you are unsure if your computer can use these files, download our test file. If you are unable to use one of these files check our FAQ for links to free software.

How to Play Ragtime Ukulele

Price:$17

Once you click ‘buy now’, you’ll be taken to PayPal for secure payment (accept payments from PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, AmEx and more). When you click ‘Complete Purchase’ you’ll be taken to a page where you can download your ebook (download time will vary depending on your connection speed). You’ll also receive an email with a link to the download page.

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

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

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… Priced at $7.00, this eBook is a bargain.
Ukulele Review

How to Play Christmas Ukulele

Price: $7

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 the ebook. Please read the FAQ page for more information.

Click the link on that page to download (avoid using a download manager as this can make the link expire).

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 a dozen tabs of well known Christmas tunes. I’ve kept the arrangements as simple as I could in the hope that it will still be possible to knock them out in that woozy, slightly tipsy Christmas afternoon state.

The tunes are arranged for re-entrant ukulele in a number of different styles: strumming, classical fingerpicking, Hawaiian fingerpicking. There should be a few that suit your own style of playing.

You’ll get a zip file containing arrangements of all these tunes in tablature and standard notation, a pdf file containing performance notes on each tune and mp3s of all songs.

Take a listen to the arrangements using the player or download the mp3s:

Download Silent Night

Download Carol of the Bells

Download Good King Wenceslas

Download 12 Days of Christmas

Download Auld Lang Syne

Download Deck The Halls

Download God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Download In the Bleak Midwinter

Download Sussex Carol

Download The Holly and the Ivy

Download Here We Come A Wassailing

How to Play Christmas Ukulele

Price: $7

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

Cover photo: Runder

- Learn different fingerpicking patterns.

- Add texture to your playing.

- Get that Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Hawaiian sound.

- The perfect introduction if you want to move on to fingerpicking soloing.

- Watch video examples.

The course will be a series of six emails tips on using fingerpicking for accompaniment and a number of patterns to try out. You’ll also get videos showing you exactly what to do and, at the end, you’ll get a pdf of all the exercises that you can print out.

As well as getting the course, you’ll get news of new ukulele ebooks and exclusive offers.

To get all this, just fill in your email address here:

You should get an email asking you to confirm your email address. If you don’t get this, check your spam folder. If you can’t find it there either, send me an email and I’ll make sure you get the course.

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