Ukulele players can strum, sing and pick along with 20 Beatles classics! Includes: All You Need Is Love * Eight Days a Week * Good Day Sunshine * Here, There and Everywhere * Let It Be * Love Me Do * Penny Lane * Yesterday * and more.
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Kisses on the Bottom (also available in a deluxe version) features the standards Paul McCartney grew up listening to as well as two brand-new songs. The deluxe version includes a download card for access to a live performance. |
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52 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Incompetently formatted - practically unusuable,
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This review is from: The Beatles for Ukulele (Paperback)
This book contains 20 popular Beatles tunes presented in the "melody plus chord diagrams" format (no tabs). They are presented in their entirety, in the original keys, which means that you should be able to strum along with the actual recordings. Sounds great, right?
Unfortunately, Hal Leonard has chosen to format the book in such a way that it is practically useless without extensive (illegal) photocopies. The staves are printed HUGE and are spaced extremely far apart from each other, creating numerous unnecessary page turns. How bad is it? The densest page of music in the book still has less that 20 measures of music on it. Some pages have as few as 8 bars! To make matters worse, repeat signs are frequently located a bar or two after a page turn, which means that have to turn the page, then immediately turn the page back again. The last time I checked, it takes two hands to play the ukulele! When you add all the repeat signs, D.S.'s and Codas Many of these songs could have EASILY been printed on two opposing pages. "The Long and Winding Road", for example, requires 5 page turns over the course of a mere 33 printed measures. "Good Day, Sunshine" also requires 5 page turns to play 33 measures. To play the 40 printed measures of "Michelle" with all the repeats and the coda, you will have to turn a single page back and forth SEVEN times. This is completely inexcusable. Much like a D-student's book report, the creators of this book have used double-spacing and big fonts in order to force the book to be seventy pages long, when the content would probably only require about 20. I regret buying this book, and I hope other potential buyers will save their money. The book you really want is The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook, (also published by Hal Leonard) which contains the lyrics and chords for 194 beatles songs, requires almost no page turns at all, and is even small enough to fit in my uke case! Unfortunately, that book has guitar chords, not uke chords, so unless you have all your chords memorized, you will need to consult a chord chart. Believe me, it will be a lot less annoying than dealing with "The Beatles for Ukulele."
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great addition to your Beatles collection!,
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This review is from: The Beatles for Ukulele (Paperback)
Any Beatles fan will know that George was an avid ukulele player, and that John's mother taught him to play uke before he picked up a guitar. So it's only fitting that a Beatles book arranged for the four string wonder finally be published.
Once you get past the horribly ugly cover, it's a great book. Sure, it's only got 20 songs and your favorite might not be in there, but it does have chord diagrams for ukulele, that other Beatles collections don't. For the advanced beginner or intermediate player, this book is perfect. If you're an experienced player, this book might be a bit beneath you. For the advanced player, I would recommend "The Beatles Complete Chord Songbook" - all the songs, but no ukulele chord diagrams (just guitar). http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-Complete-Chord-Songbook/dp/0634022296/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1222293532&sr=8-2 But back to that cover... I can understand not being able to license photos of the Fab Four, but at least hire an artist to create a Peter Max style cover. Perhaps for volume 2.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but no real arrangements,
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This review is from: The Beatles for Ukulele (Paperback)
This is a pretty good little book. It definitely saves me the time of having to chart out the chords, and gives suggestions for which inversion to use for each chord, which is good since I'm just starting on uke. Other than that, it just notes the melody apart from the chords, so there are no real arrangements. It is helpful enough for me to come up with my own arrangements based on the chord and melody notation, but what is on the page is really only ideal notation for 2 uke players to sit down, one taking the chords and the other taking the melody.
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