Materials

Just Starting Out?

• Recommended Links & Materials for New Ukulele Players (PDF)

Ukulele Books

• 96 American Spirituals for Ukulele
• 123 Ukulele Play! : a curriculum for ukulele in the classroom
  on Teachers Pay Teachers and on Amazon. Find AUDIO here.
• The 2-Chord Christmas Songbook : EASY UKULELE TAB EDITION
• Top 25 Celtic Session Tunes for Ukulele : Popular Tunes in Tab & Notation
• The Ultimate Dictionary of Strum Patterns : for Strumming Nerds Only
• Titan M’s 2 Chord Companion : 157 songs in Ukulele-Friendly Keys
• Christmas Carols for Ukulele Orchestra : 12 Classic Carols
• The Haunted Ukulele : 59 Spooky Songs to Cast a Spell on Your Audience
• Christmas on 34th Street : 34 3-4 Chord Christmas Classics for Ukulele
• Two Chord Camp Songs for Ukulele : 32 Silly, Funny, Crazy Songs
• The Two Chord Christmas Songbook : 34 Lesser-known Christmas Gems

See also: For Ukulele Ensembles

Projector Collections

• Ukulele Christmas Projector Collection : Selections from Christmas on 34th Street and The Two Chord Christmas Songbook
  
• Titan M’s 2 Chord Companion in Landscape Format for Projectors

Instrumental Tablature with Standard Notation

• First Melodies for Ukulele : 18 familiar tunes to help folk get started with tablature. Includes tablature and staff notation so you can get to know the notes on your fretboard better at the same time.
• Amazing Grace : A simple chord melody arrangement.
• Chopsticks (Ukulele Tablature Solo) : The Celebrated Chopsticks Waltz.
• Jesus Once Was a Little Child (Ukulele Tablature – Vocal – Chords) : Pulled at my heartstrings when I was five and still does.
• Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam (Calypso) : 6/8 songs adapt really easily to a Calypso-style 4/4. Except for a couple of spots, I would rate this one as very easy.
• Kingsfold (Ukulele Tablature Solo) : This famous tune has been used for hymn-texts such as “If You Could Hie to Kolob,” “O Sing a Song of Bethlehem” & “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say.”
• March of the Spiders (Ukulele Tablature Solo) : An instrumental from my larger work, The Giant’s Heart.
• The Spirit of God (Ukulele Tablature Solo) : One of my favorite hymns from the LDS tradition.
• Tell Me the Stories of Jesus (Ukulele Tablature – Vocal – Chords) : One of my favorite ‘primary’ songs.

Individual Ukulele Songs

• Behold that Star : An excellent Christmas spiritual arranged for 2 voices or a 2-part children’s choir.
• Bible Camp Songs for Ukulele : Six classic Bible songs for camp including, All Night, All Day, Zion’s Children, Go Now in Peace, Little David, Play on Your Harp, Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, and Rise & Shine.
• Blood on the Saddle : So morbid, its humorous. My favorite ‘cowboy’ song.
• Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel 2-part, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel 2-part with Descant, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel Choir Only : One of my favorite spirituals.
• Funiculi Funicula (Italian) Funiculi Funicula – Neapolitan (Original)
• Ghost of the Ukulele, The : “Last night in dreams I could plainly see the land of Honolulu far across the sea, I was on the beach at Waikiki, when a million ukuleles started chasing me . . .”
• I’m a Giraffe (Round for 3) : Just for fun, a little round I composed.
• The Itsy Bitsy Spider : Classic children’s song. Includes regular and 1-finger chord version with altered melodic notes.
• Mister Rabbit : Fantastic children’s folk tune.
• O Holy Night : This Christmas song made big waves in the U.S. before the Civil War due to it’s abolitionist leaning lyrics.
• ‘O Sole Mio : The famous song made even more famous by the Three Tenors.
• On Christ, the Solid Rock, I Stand : Also known as My Hope is Built on Nothing Less. Lead sheet with chord indications.
• Rudolph The Red-nosed Reindeer Lead with Ukulele Chord Diagrams
• Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow : Another excellent Christmas spiritual arranged for 2 voices or a 2-part children’s choir.
• Stars and Stripes Forever – Eb (Original Key) | Stars and Stripes Forever – D (Easier) | Stars and Stripes Forever – C (Easiest) : The classic march with original words by Sousa himself.
• There is a Haunted House in the Town : Parody of “There is a Tavern in the Town” for Halloween.
• Three Blind Mice : Classic children’s song. Includes regular and 1-finger chord version with altered melodic notes.
• Truth Eternal by Parley P. Pratt and Alexander Schreiner, arranged by M. Ryan Taylor. This simple arrangement provides a fingerpicking and strum pattern that can be used on alternating verses or combined with two to three ukuleles (with the melody picked).
• Two by Two (Round for 4) : Another round, just for fun, celebrating Noah’s Ark.
• We Wish You a Merry Christmas : Classic Christmas tune (lyrics and chords only).
• Where is He? (Round for 3) : Original Christmas setting of the words of the Three Kings.
• You’re a Grand Old Flag & You’re a Grand Old Flag – Tab Only : George M. Cohan’s classic piece of Americana arranged for two, or more, ukuleles.

Ukulele Chord Charts for GCEA Standard Tuning

• 1 Finger Ukulele Chord Chart (PDF) by M Ryan Taylor : 50 One-finger Chords for the Soprano Ukulele. This chart will help you get started playing the ukulele as quickly as possible. Many of these ‘jazzy’ sounding chords can be substituted in place of more common, but more difficult, 2, 3 & 4 finger chords. Also: Baritone DGBE – 1 Finger Ukulele Chords
• Michelle Kiba’s Ukulele Chord Chart (PDF), from Ukalady.com. A good set of standard chords.
• Michael DaSilva’s Ukulele Chord Chart (PDF), from the DaSilva Ukulele Company. This chart shows the chord relationships to the keys that they belong to. Very useful!