Simple, fun, crazy, silly songs for group singing, each with only two chords each. Perfect for beginners who want to learn a slew of songs in a short amount of time or seasoned veterans preparing to lead a group jam or sing-a-long with songs anyone can pick up in a trice. Link to a free video playlist of selections from this book is included for free. Songs using F & C7
1.A Ram Sam Sam
2.An Austrian Went Yodeling
3.Frankenstein (Clementine)
4.Hangman
5.I Know an Old Lady
6.I Went to the Pictures Tomorrow
7.If You Love Me (Alouette)
8.Jolly Peanut, A
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Follow the old woman, all skin and bones, on her quest to tidy up the local graveyard. Perfect for home, the classroom or the music class. The trick to this song is to sing each short verse quieter and quieter until you reach the 'surprise' ending. Once your child learns the secret of how this song works, they'll delight in sharing it with others.

Sheet music and a link to a sing-a-long video of the song are included in the book.

"The characters in 'Skin & Bones' started their life as white scratches on a black...

A Monster Collection of 59 Spooky Songs: Covering Disasters, Murder Ballads, Gruesome Tongue Twisters, Ghostly Rags, Depressing Folk Songs, Weird and Humorous Tales of the Macabre, Halloween Songs for Kids, Never-Before-Seen Originals, and other completely obscure classic and novelty songs appropriate for making audiences shriek with terror and laughter. Compiled, Edited, Composed or Arranged by M. Ryan Taylor of UkulelePlay.com Copyright (c) 2014 Vocal Works M. Ryan Taylor (ASCAP) Contents Banks of the Ohio Black Bug Blood on the Saddle Boogie Boo, The Cat Came Back,...

• Orchestral-style Parts featuring Tablature & Standard Notation
• Rhythm Parts with Strumming Indications & Lyrics

I was inspired to create this book by a number of things; my love for the ukulele, the ukulele ensemble I lead in the heart of the Wasatch mountains (UFO HUM: Ukes for Others Happy Ukulele Movement), my experience as a composer and arranger, and not least, some great arrangements for ukulele ensemble that I've seen others do.

As I've used some of...

FYI: This book is listed at Amazon's absolute lowest printing price as a low-cost resource for sparking strumming creativity. Note from the Author:

Have you ever wondered how many strum patterns are possible? It's a big, big number. If you limit your options to just three basic movements, a downstrum, an upstrum and a dash/space/pause for leaping over the strings you get 65,536 possible combinations. If you were to add in a few right-hand techniques (mutes, chnks, rolls/rasguado, drags, thumb rolls, etc.) the numbers become astronomical. Add just one of these techniques and you multiply...

I began listening to Celtic music in the early 90's when a friend introduced me to Fiona Ritchie's NPR radio program, The Thistle and Shamrock. I'd already become aware of some session tunes through the pennywhistle primer my father had given me in the 80's (when he was still a well, active musician and would play duets with me at family Christmas parties), but I had never before heard recordings of the masters of the whistle, fiddle, harp and uilleann pipes. Needless to say, it was a revelation. Shortly thereafter it seemed like the entire world was listening to the lilting jigs and...