Here are all of the great playukulelenow.com fingerstyle and Chord melody solos!
Each link leads to the lesson and a PDF for the song.
Before you start (lessons & tips)...
Here are some helpful tips to get you started with fingerstyle on the right track:
- Are you holding the ukulele wrong? Avoid these 5 mistakes
- Beginning fingerstyle ukulele made easy
- DON'T SQUEEZE the Juice out of your UKE!
- Here's a video on beginning fingerpicking and two basic songs you can play to get it down
Fingerpicking Patterns - Video Series
These make great exercises to get those fingers moving and they're great patterns that can be used as an accompaniment for many songs:
Beginning Fingerstyle - Video Series
In this series we learn all the fingerstyle tricks and secrets. What's unique about this is - I teach right hand fingering fingering in this series (as well as many other things) for more efficient playing and and a better sounding performance:
Christmas
Hauntingly beautiful arrangements - from beginner to advanced. Some really fun stuff here:
- Silent Night - Fingerstyle (Easy - Single Notes)
- O come, all ye faithful - Fingerstyle (Dyads and Chords)
- Jingle Bells - Fingerstyle (Campanella and Chords)
- Silent Night - Fingerstyle (2 versions: Campanella, Dyads and Chords)
- The First Noel - Fingerstyle (Campanella, Dyads, Chords; 2 versions, the second with a more complex chord sequence)
- What Child is This? - Fingerstyle (Campanella, Dyads, Chords & you learn the fingering for the easy D chord)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem - Chord melody with campanella passages
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Chord melody with full chords and campanella passages
- What Child is This? - Unique chord melody arrangement with many campanella passages
- Angels We Have Heard on High - 3 chord melody solos - beautiful campanella runs (1 jazz solo)
- Deck The Halls - Lots of hammer on an pull offs as well as rich chords and enchanting campanella passages
- Fum, Fum, Fum - Challenging chord changes, rests and time change
Better get started on this one too so you can be the hit of the New Years Eve party!
Check out my new book of Christmas fingerstyle solos:
Click here to grab your copy: A Ukulele for Christmas - Fingerstyle Solos
Songs from the Book:
- O Little Town of Bethlehem - Classical style solo from my book A Ukulele for Christmas - Fingerstyle Solos along with a lesson & Study notes is available FREE to Patreon members - or it can be purchased separately here.
- Jolly Old Saint Nicholas - Classical style solo from my book A Ukulele for Christmas - Fingerstyle Solos along with a lesson on alternating i and m & Study notes is available FREE to Patreon members.
- O Come, All Ye Faithful - Beautiful (and easy) Solo from my book A Ukulele for Christmas - Fingerstyle Solos along with a lesson on how to play the piece, including how to play rolls and rests is available FREE to Patreon members.
Classical
These classical arrangements take full advantage of the uke's re-entrant tuning with beautiful Campanella passes - some 100% campanella:
- Classical Lesson 5: Ode to Joy
- Classical Lesson 4: Fractured Mirror
- Classical Lesson 3: Ukrainian Folk Song
- Classical Lesson 2: Country Dance
- Classical Lesson 1: Scottish Dance
- Romance De Amour - Unique Chord Melody Solo Version (easier than the typical version and it sounds beautiful - Patreon members)
- Fur Elise (solo 1) - Campanella
- Fur Elise (solo 2) - Campanella with chords, for a beautiful campanella chords melody combo! (patreon members).
- Brahms Lullaby - Key of C - excellent beginners fingerstyle piece!
- Brahms Lullaby - Key of D - use my special 'easy D' here (patreon members)
- Brahms Lullaby - Key of F - Most complex - A great challenge (patreon Members)
- CRAZY CANON in C - a wild version of 'Canon in D' and a challenge to play (patreon members).
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Strictly campanella - a fun challenge.
- Anonymous Minuet - cool chord melody version of a classical piece.
Traditional
Just the right mix of campanella and chords make for stunning arrangements of these traditional pieces:
- Faith of our Fathers - Chord Melody
- Scarborough Fair - Chord Melody (two arrangements one with just two chords).
- Danny Boy - 2 Solos - Campanella and campanella with chords (Patreon members).
- Danny Boy - JAZZ 1 - Campanella passages and rich JAZZ chords
- Danny Boy - JAZZ Version 2 - This more complex version has different chords (extra super cool jazz chords) and some amazing runs with 6th's... (patreon members).
- Greensleeves - Advanced Arrangement, with all chords plucked (three note chords and dyads) and campanella passages (patreon members).
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