Easy Ukulele Songs: 5 with 5 Chords: Book + online video

By Rebecca Bogart, Jenny Peters, Jean Boles

The title says 5 songs, 5 chords.
It should say: everything that gets you from "I can strum" to "I can actually play."

Here's what the title doesn't tell you: this is a full multimedia course - video instruction, tab, fingerpicking, blues improvisation, troubleshooting built from decades of teaching - priced like a pamphlet.

It starts with who's teaching you.
A Grammy-nominated music educator and a former Harvard master class piano teacher - the same duo behind the best-selling 21 Songs in 6 Days - built this as the next step after that curriculum, whether or not you've taken it.

You'll learn five songs - "Camptown Races," "Danny Boy," "Greensleeves," "Five Foot Two," and an original blues piece, "Lonely Blues" - but the songs are the vehicle, not the point. Along the way you pick up 9 chords, the 3 core strumming patterns everything else is built from, and how to read tab well enough to fingerpick a melody instead of just strumming through it. Every song comes with two videos - one for strumming, one for fingerpicking - plus chord diagrams, notation, and lyrics, so it doesn't matter how you learn best.

Then it goes further than most beginner books dare to.
You'll get an introduction to blues improvisation - actually making up your own melodies, not just following someone else's. And when something doesn't click, you're not stuck: the troubleshooting tips distilled from decades of teaching mean you fix it in the moment, not three practice sessions later.

One reader, 72, put it this way: "My fingers are not co-operating... I did the tab and it works fine for me... Amazing Grace sounds just like Amazing Grace."
That's the whole promise of this book - it meets you exactly where your hands are, and moves you forward anyway.

Round it out with a short history behind each song, a full chord glossary with photos, tuning tips, and more - and you have less a songbook than a second semester of ukulele, hiding behind a modest title.

Get your copy of Easy Ukulele Songs: 5 with 5 Chords - and find out what the title left out.

This is Volume 2 of the Beginning Ukulele Songs Series.

Also available:
Volume 1, "21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way"
Volume 3, "21 Easy Ukulele Songs for Christmas"
Volume 4, "21 MORE Songs in 6 Days: Learn Intermediate Ukulele the Easy Way."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1515301508
• ISBN13: 9781515301509
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 62 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"