Learn to play the ukulele and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about the history of the ukulele, its components, how to hold and tune it, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and playing a variety of well-known songs. You will learn different strumming techniques to help you play in a variety of musical styles. The book also contains a section teaching you how to play by ear. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key and know how to read music. The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons: * Transposition chart * Dictionary of tablature techniques * Ukulele fingerboard chart * Complete ukulele chord dictionary This book teaches entirely in C tuning. The D tuning edition of Alfred’s Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele (item 14135) is available from your favorite music retailer and at Alfred.com. Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of the way.

This book teaches you how to play the D-tuned ukulele with an easy-to-follow approach that will have you playing instantly. Different strumming techniques help you play in any style including folk, blues, and country. Great songs like "This Land Is Your Land," "When the Saints Go Marching In," "St. Louis Blues," and many others are included with lyrics. A special section on playing by ear teaches how to figure out your own favorite songs, and a handy chart shows how to transpose any song to the key of your choice. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key.

This book teaches you everything you need to know to play the guitar. You will learn the parts of the guitar, how to hold the guitar, how to tune and how to read music. This book focuses mainly on strumming chords and includes a complete chord dictionary. Well-known tunes are included including Tom Dooley, The Streets of Laredo, When the Saints Go Marching In, The Red River Valley, Scarborough Fair, Greensleves and many more.

(Ukulele). If you've been learning ukulele for a little while, you are probably eager to put your new skills to work and learn some familiar songs. This book features 50 favorite Disney songs arranged with melody, lyrics and chord diagrams for standard G-C-E-A tuning. Songs include: The Bare Necessities * Beauty and the Beast * Can You Feel the Love Tonight * Chim Chim Cher-ee * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Evermore * Hakuna Matata * How Does a Moment Last Forever * How Far I'll Go * I See the Light * Into the Unknown * Lava * Let It Go * The Place Where Lost Things Go * Remember Me (Ernesto de la Cruz) * Speechless * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * True Love's Kiss * Under the Sea * When She Loved Me * A Whole New World * You've Got a Friend in Me * and more!

The appealing repertoire with charming lyrics further reinforces and enhances the learning of new musical concepts introduced in the Lesson Book. Includes attractive music created by internationally acclaimed composers in a variety of styles, plus tips on how to perform more musically. Each piece on the CD was recorded at a performance tempo and a slower practice tempo The audio for this book is also available for download here The music from this book is available in the Piano Maestro app that's downloadable here. Learn more About JoyTunes, the maker of Piano Maestro here.

No prior musical experience is needed for learning the basic ukulele techniques. Readers will learn how to hold the instrument, strumming, basic chords and beyond. An enclosed CD guides players through a series of progressive exercises.

A clever classical dog, a cool jazz cat, and a friendly alligator help teach children to play songs on the ukulele.