Contents Put a ek in te box next to ea item you learn: LEVEL Notes g e a LEVEL 2 Cords Musial Symbols Songs (none) Quarter Note Quarter Rest Musi End Time Signature Bar Line Staff Repeat Sign G (Treble) Clef Half Note Half Rest Star Ligt, Star Brigt Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around te Rosie Notes Cords Musial Symbols Songs d ig C7 A minor Cord Diagram Strum Dotted Half Note Wole Note Wole Rest Coonut Feelin Alrigt Exodus Stand By Me LEVEL Notes Cords Musial Symbols Songs f b F major Left Repeat Sign st / 2nd Ending Eigt Note Eigt Rest Deep in te Heart of Texas Iko Iko Reggae Got Soul Bo Diddley Jambalaya (On te Bayou) Mustang Sally Lava LEVEL 4 I Gotta Feeling Duerme Pronto Merrily We Roll Camptown Raes Twinkle,Twinkle, Little Star Wen te Saints Go Maring In London Bridge Go Tell Aunt Rody Merrily We Roll Brams Lullaby Notes Cords Musial Symbols Songs b-flat B-flat major G major Dotted Quarter Note Tie Aloa Oe Let It Be Ho Hey You Are My Sunsine Happy Birtday to You Home on te Range Alouette Amazing Grae Everybody Loves Saturday Nigt Tis Land Is Your Land
Getting to know te OPEN Strings (g,, e, a) Make sure you re olding your ukulele so it s faing tis drawing like a MIRROR. Use tis sentene to elp remember te order of te open strings: Good Cooks Eat A lot!? MUSICAL SYMBOLS 2 = Quarter Rest (be silent) One, two, ready, play! Wi string is losest to te floor? = Quarter Note (pik) Five Below Follow ea symbol on te beat wit your eyes as you play. g e a = Musi End (stop playing) Don t play past te end! On and Off Count te rests and notes as you go so you don t lose your plae. One, two, ready, play! a a a a a a a a a a a a a Be Prepared Look aead as you play so you re ready for te ending. a a a a a a a a a a One, two, ready, play! 2
MUSICAL SYMBOLS 4 4 Te 4/4 time signature means tat quarter (/4) notes and rests will last one beat, and bar lines = 4/4 Time Signature = Bar Line will divide te musi into bars or measures ontaining exatly 4 beats ea. = Staff Writing notes on a staff makes it easier to tell notes apart by sowing ow ig or low teir pit is. In Time Count four beats at te speed you want to play te notes before playing in 4/4 time. 4 g g g g 2 On Staff Te irular part of a note is alled te ead and te line is alled te stem. 4 a a a a a a a a Doubles Te note ead eiter as a staff line going troug it, or it is between two lines. 4 4 e e e e 5 Upstairs, Downstairs Some notes are so low tat we add little extra lines to te staff. g g g g g g g a a a a 4 In s How ig or low te note ead is written on te staff sows us ow ig or low te pit is. g g g g g g e e e e e e?? How many measures are in te piee of musi above? g Wi of te four strings as te igest pit? Wi as te lowest? 4
MUSICAL SYMBOLS = treble lef Te treble lef symbol assigns a speifi pit to ea line or spae on te staff. It is also alled te g lef beause te enter of te swirl ends by rossing te line used for te note g. Using te alpabet, we an figure out were any note is from g. 4... d e f g a b d... *Mirror image of your ukulele g e a 2 Wat s My Name? Use te diagram to make sure you re playing te orret note. 4 g a 22 Taking Turns Notes written iger on te staff sound iger tan notes written lower. 2 A Little Lift Ea pit as its own loation on te staff. 4 e Go bak to te beginning. 6
Make sure your finger reaes over te a string witout touing it. New Cord! Try strumming tis ord 5 times to te beat. 7 Feelin Alrigt Repeat tis pattern to strum along to tis song as reorded by Joe Coker. C7 4 8 You Can t Always Get Wat You Want Strum along wen you ear te title words in te Rolling Stones reording of tis song. 4 4 C7 Count te beats silently! 2 4 2 4 26
45 Merrily We Roll Keep your fretting fingers lose to te fretboard even wen not in use 4 4 MUSICAL SYMBOLS 46 Camptown Raes You an use different fingers for piking different strings. 4 Getting to know te note ig Mer - ri - ly we roll a - long, roll a - long, roll a - long = Dotted alf note q q q q q q q q q q Camp-town la - dies sing tis song, doo - da doo - da... q q Dotted alf notes last as long as quarter notes.? If a quarter note lasts beat in -4 time, ow many beats will a dotted alf note last? x x x q Mer - ri - ly we roll a - long, o er te deep blue sea. q q Camp-town rae trak s five miles long, o, doo - da day. q.. Te note s stem an point down for iger notes. Tis is te same fingering as te ord. Pik only on te string you are fretting. 29
Getting to know lead seets Lead seets give you te basi instrutions for ow to play a song, inluding: Te Harmony (te ords to strum) Te Melody (te tune to sing/pik) 65 London Bridge Try singing wile piking te melody, ten wile strumming te armony. 4 4 4 4 Te Lyris (te words) 2 2 Lon - don bridge is fal - ling down, fal - ling down, fal - ling down. Lon - don bridge is fal - ling down, my fair la - dy.. 66 Go Tell Aunt Rody Tis song uses te same ord pattern as London Bridge. F major 2 4 Old Ma - Don - ald Go tell Aunt Ro - dy, go tell Aunt Ro - dy, 2 go tell Aunt Ro - dy te old grey goose is dead. 2 On te first beat, we sing te word Old on te note f wile strumming F major. ad a farm You may strum on every beat or in a pattern te lead seet leaves it up to you! 4
Song Index Title (play-along reording artist), page Cords Melody Lyris Play-Along Aloa Oe, 48 Alouette, 46 Amazing Grae, 48-49 Bo Diddley (Bo Diddley), 4 Brams Lullaby, 42 Camptown Raes, 29 Coonut (Harry Nilsson), 24 Deep in te Heart of Texas (Moe Bandy), Drifting Blues (B.B. King), 2 Duerme Pronto, 28 Everybody Loves Saturday Nigt, 45 Exodus (Bob Marley), 27 Feelin Alrigt (Joe Coker), 26 Go Tell Aunt Rody, 4 Happy Birtday to You, 47 Ho Hey (Te Lumineers), 52-5 Home on te Range, 49-50 I Gotta Feeling, 27 Iko Iko (Cowboy Mout), Jambalaya (Hank Williams), 4 Lava (K.T. Kaele, N. Greig), 6 Let It Be (Te Beatles), 54-55 London Bridge, 4 Merrily We Roll, 42 Mustang Sally (Wilson Pikett), 5 Rain, Rain, Go Away, 20 Reggae Got Soul (), Ring Around te Rosie, 20 Stand By Me, 27 Star Ligt, Star Brigt, 20 Tis Land Is Your Land (Flatt Sruggs), 47 Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, 8 Wen te Saints Go Maring In, 8 You Are My Sunsine (Willie Nelson), 47 You Can't Always Get Wat You Want (Rolling Stones), 26 59