The Ultimate Ukulele Fake Book: Over 400 Songs to Strum & Sing
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The Ultimate Ukulele Fake Book: Over 400 Songs to Strum & Sing

Paperback – July 1, 2018

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Price
$33.74
Format
Paperback
Pages
632
Publisher
Hal Leonard
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1495070402
Dimensions
9 x 1.23 x 12 inches
Weight
3.66 pounds

Description

About the Author Founded in 1947, Hal Leonard LLC has become the worlds largest source of music performance and instructional materials, with a catalog of over a million products in both physical and digital form. They represent many of the greatest songwriters and artists of all time and publish and distribute works from all genres of music for all styles of musicians and ensembles.

Features & Highlights

  • (Ukulele). Uke enthusiasts will love this giant, spiral-bound collection of over 400 songs for uke, presented with melody, lyrics & chord diagrams for each song in standard G-C-E-A tuning. Includes: Ain't Misbehavin' * Annie's Song * Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy * Brown Eyed Girl * Counting Stars * Crazy * Dancing Queen * Downtown * Fields of Gold * Five Hundred Miles * God Only Knows * Happy * Hey Jude * I Feel Fine * I'm Yours * Let Her Go * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * Misty * No Particular Place to Go * Only You (And You Alone) * Please Mr. Postman * Riptide * 7 Years * Summertime * Thinking Out Loud * Thriller * Under the Boardwalk * Wagon Wheel * When I Fall in Love * You Belong to Me * and more.

Customer Reviews

Rating Breakdown

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Good song selection, but many songs are oversimplified.

This book has a wide array of songs, a decent mix of current and classics. I enjoy the book, but my main complaint is that many of the songs are oversimplified. Chords are often watered down to their basic major forms, and thus some songs sound slightly "off" when you play them. If you are a beginner, this is a good book. If you have been playing a while, some of the arrangements will annoy you.
34 people found this helpful
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Not so Ukelele

I think it's basically a fake book for guitar. Save your money unless you have an extra low string.
25 people found this helpful
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Inaccuracies are hidden gems

Tremendous selection of songs across variety of styles in a readable format. Others complained about inaccuracies. As an intermediate player, I've found a few inaccuracies, but that's part of the journey. Change keys, change a chord here and there, try some alternate phrasing, and make it your own.
19 people found this helpful
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Great Book!

LOVE these Ukulele fake books for my guitar! They have all the songs I want, and more, in comfortable keys. Plastic spiral binding is a nice plus, too. Only negative is songs are on 2 pages, not one.
14 people found this helpful
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400 songs. 50 great ones, 350 duds.

Not that it's not a bargain, even with only 50 good songs. And by good songs, I don't mean quality tunes...it's just that some songs were never meant for the Ukelele, no matter how skillfully played.
11 people found this helpful
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Great purchase

Lots of fun music and love the chord diagrams, especially when it is a new chord for me, or one I don't use very often. Great learning tool and even more fun when friends join you for a jam session!
4 people found this helpful
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Great Songs

A good book but it would be nice to have the chord diagrams listed on each
2 people found this helpful
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Hard to view chord diagram and play at same time.

My big complaint was that the chord diagram was at the very top of the page not on top of the notes. You have to keep looking up for finger placement causing a pause in play.
2 people found this helpful
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Good Value

Great addition to my music library. Good assortment of songs and most should be familiar.
2 people found this helpful
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Outstanding Single Source

This is an outstanding resource for ukulele groups. Has great variety in genres (but no holiday/children songs). Generally not too many chords (but good for beginners). It works well for everybody w/ tune/rhythm notation. Most songs are on one page. Has smooth ‘roadmap signs’ when a song jumps around. Get 9x12 size for easy reading. Songs you don’t know are easy to learn w/ youtube, an ideal choice for expanding one’s personal repertoire.
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