The Beatles Fingerstyle Ukulele Songbook | 25 Solo Arrangements with Tablature and Diagrams | Ukulele Sheet Music Book for Beginners and Intermediate Players | Includes Lead Sheets

I'm very impressed with this book - arranging a Beatles song for a 4 string uke is challenging, but these versions are amazing. Most Beatles arrangements I come across even for 6 string guitar are a little iffy - but these are great. You can play these as solo pieces without singing or any other accompaniment, and they will capture the essence of the original song. I will note that these are not easy arrangements to play, but not crazy-hard / unplayable either.

I don't write many reviews. But felt compelled to praise this book - mostly because I did not expect to love this book. As a lower-intermediate player (playing for just over a year) I find this book perfect for my abilities. I can usually learn a song in about 1 hour (by learn, I mean that after an hour I can stumble my way through the song by memory). It will still take many days or weeks to really get good at it. But the songs are wonderful. I also really like the size and fonts used in this book. The physical size of the book is larger than most others that I own, and the fonts are larger - makes it much easier to read the tabs. Even though we all know these Beatles songs through and through, I still find it helpful to be able to hear the song played as it has been arranged. Well, Fred has made that available for all of the songs in this book (I don't think most people know this). On youtube, under the channel "Fred Sokolow - Topic" you can hear each and every one of the songs in this book played exactly as presented in the book. Thank you Fred. I wish more authors would do this. You can also go have a listen to see what these arrangements will sound like before you buy to see if they appeal to you. So glad I bought this book!

The arrangements are great and easy to follow, though it helps to know how to read music at least a little. They sound really good just as written—the melodies standing out of the beautiful chords. (NOTE: The arrangements depend on a high G tuning.) As a beginner at finger style, I would have liked more instructions—maybe which fingers to use for playing the notes, when to use a strum rather than a fingerpluck on a chord, etc.—maybe not so much for every song, maybe in an introduction or something. A CD or website with all tunes would have been good too. I did find some YouTube videos of the author demonstrating some of the tunes and that was really helpful, gave me the idea I needed to work out the rest of the tunes. But I’m not disappointed and will definitely be using the book to improve my finger style playing.

This book is great. It is full of Beatles songs that we all know and love, and the arrangements are FANTASTIC. Background: While I personally consider myself a beginner player, having started playing stringed instruments as an adult and putting in maybe 1.5 solid years of practice, I think that as far as music instruction books -- at least for the Uke -- I am an intermediate. Almost all of the sheet music I have seen for Uke is just lyrics and chords, and maybe a line of melody if you're lucky. Basically a "fake book" like any other, but with chord diagrams for Uke. Kind of pathetic, really. I am certainly not a good enough player to layer together melody and chords on my own, so a book like this that arranges the melody and chords together is just what I want. If you have progressed past the point of playing chords and strumming, this book will give you lots of material to work on, with results that are worth the effort you put in. Five solid stars. If only there were more uke books like this.

As someone who only picked up the ukulele in the past few months after a few years of playing classical guitar, I wasn't into singing and strumming so I picked up this book. This is exactly what I wanted. The ukulele as a solo instrument. The arrangements are definitely challenging, but after some practice they're quite fun. I added a video of my favorite segment of "When I'm Sixty Four", which I think really illustrates what a great arranger Fred Sokolow is. Definitely planning to buy more of his ukulele arrangements.

I am so happy I bought this. It has the lead Melody notes with words, the chord notes, and the tab all at the same time. It makes it really easy to read and play. Then some songs have the words with the chord letters above if you prefer to play that way. Each song typically has a paragraph of how the song was written or some kind of history with it. This one of the best music books I have bought and I have bought several for all kinds of instruments. I wish they made all music books like this. Buy it! You will not be disappointed.

This is a very competent book for people who know how to finger pick and know ukulele. However, I just wanted something that would allow me to easily play some Beatles songs without lots of practice. Haven't found one yet, but I know it's possible to create such a songbook. Regardless, this is a fine book for people who have some devotion to becoming proficient on the ukulele. For those who want to just strum some easy chords--well, this may not be for you. This is not a beginners books.

Nice selection of Beatles sinus.

Great Beatles book for learning, got all the notes, chords and words to a lot of Beatles songs

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Arranjos muito bons, mas a versão para kindle é muito ruim!!! As partituras / tablaturas aparecem em formato de foto e mesmo abrindo em um computador o formato é muito pequeno. Impossível acompanhar a partitura pelo kindle, tive que transcrever tudo para poder acompanhar as músicas.

Ce livre de partitions est très bien fait la partition en tablature suivie de la même partition en accords 25 morceaux à apprendre quand on aime les Beatles achat conseillé

Love this book! Has both the chords and fingerpicking! Great Beatles songs