Tim Fulston
This book is the ideal introduction to one of today's most popular little instruments. Versatile and adaptable, the ukulele has been around since the 19th century and is now enjoying a remarkable surge of popularity. It is inexpensive, easy to learn and suitable for playing all kinds of music.
Ukulele from the Beginning helps you make the most of the uke's many virtues. Even beginners soon find that they can make music using simple, easy-to-play chords on an instrument that even small hands can master!
No musical knowledge is needed to get started and before long almost anyone can play accompaniments to simple tunes. All of which makes the ukulele the ideal classroom instrument. Any teacher, with or without musical knowledge, will discover that by using this book it's simple to teach basic chords by playing along with well-known favourite songs. The ukulele is a great starting point to enjoying music in the classroom - and this book makes the process a pleasure for teacher and children alike.
Song List:
Animal Fair
London Bridge
This Old Man
Old Macdonald
Waltzing Matilda
John Brown's Body
Oh, When the Saints
Oh, Suzanna
Camptown Races
Ten Green Bottles
If You're Happy
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
She'll be Coming Round the Mountain
Jingle Bells
Drunken Sailor
My Grandfather's Clock
Where Did You Get That Hat?
Loch Lomond
Cockles and Mussels
Mulberry Bush
Greensleeves
I'm Henery the Eighth, I am.