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Learn to Play a Ukulele

Movies
Joy of Uke   Jim Beloff   Adult Movies & Music – 787.89 Joy

Teaches the basics, showing strums and bringing the starting player quickly from the simplest songs to old-time pop standards.

Ukulele Toolbox: A Comprehensive Course for Mastering the Uke   Bob Brozman   Adult Movies & Music – 787.89 Uku

Lessons on picking patterns, harmonized scales, and other playing techniques for beginning and intermediate players.

You Can Play the Uke!   Kate Power, Steve Einhorn   Movies & Music – 787.89 You

A guide to the basics of ukulele playing.

Nonfiction
101 Ukulele Tips: Stuff All the Pros Know and Use   Fred Sokolow   Adult Nonfiction – 787.89 Sok

Covers technique, improvising and soloing, equipment, practicing, ear training, performance, and uke history and lore.

Get Plucky with the Ukulele: A Quick and Easy Guide to All Things Uke   Will Grove-White   Adult Nonfiction – 787.89 Gro

Authored by a member of the world-renowned Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, this book is clearly written and full of photos and illustrations.

Mastering Ukulele: The Complete Ukulele Method: Beginning, Intermediate, Mastering   Greg Horne   Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Hor

Explores musical styles such as old school, ragtime, Hawaiian, fingerstyle, rock and rhythms from around the world.

Ukulele Aerobics   Chad Johnson   Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Joh

A workout program for developing, improving, and maintaining ukulele technique.

Ukulele Exercises for Dummies   Brett McQueen   Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Mcq

Hundreds of exercises and drills to improve strumming and fingerpicking.

Ukulele for Beginners: How to Play Ukulele in Easy-to-Follow Steps   Will Grove-White   Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Gro

An all-encompassing guide on how to play, ukulele history, beginner and advanced techniques, famous pluckers, how to write songs, and how best to play in a group.

Ukulele for Dummies   Alistair Wood   Adult Nonfiction – 787.89 Woo

An introduction to chords, strumming, fingerpicking, and different genres and styles, along with advice on selecting and caring for an instrument.

Ukulele Fretboard Atlas: Get a Better Grip on Neck Navigation   Joe Charupakorn   Adult Nonfiction – 787.89193 Cha

Diagrams designed to help in memorizing scales and chords that may have previously seemed difficult to grasp.

Ukulele Handbook   Gavin Pretor-Pinney   Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Pre

An illustrated guide to the instrument’s history, as well as a how-to guide and songbook.