Kids' Ukulele Songbook E-Book

Emily Arrow

• Herausgeber: Happy Fox Books
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Seitenzahl: 61

Beschreibung

The perfect next step for kids with a basic understanding of how to play the ukulele, Kids' Ukulele Song Book continues their musical practice with 30 new songs for kids to learn and play! With a quick refresher in the opening section that reviews the four basic ukulele chords learned in author Emily Arrow's first book, Kids' Guide to Learning the Ukulele, children will then learn and practice brand new chords and single notes to build on their existing skills. From there, easy-to-follow guidance for 30 simple songs will have children strumming in no time – from Starlight Starbright and If You're Happy and You Know It to Emily's original singalong tunes! Kids can also create their own original songs using the songwriting template pages, use a practice chart for staying on track, cut out helpful and colorful chord cards, and even access online audio to play along with author Emily Arrow, making Kids' Ukulele Song Book the ultimate continuation to expand and grow their ukulele knowledge and skill set! Author Emily Arrow has over 10 years of experience working with children and teachers in music education. An award-winning children's songwriter, an official Kala Brand Music Co. artist, and popular YouTube personality, her work has also been featured on SiriusXM's Kid's Place Live, as well as Sesame Street Studios.

Leseprobe

Kids’

Songbook

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’s

write your name

UKULELE SONGBOOK

BY

to Sing

and Play

Learn

Songs

30

Kids’

Songbook

by

Photography by Alex Crawford

© 2022 by Emily Arrow and Happy Fox Books, an imprint of Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc., 903 Square

Street, Mount Joy, PA 17552.

Kids’ Ukulele Songbook

is an original work, first published in 2022 by Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Inc.

Reproduction of its contents is strictly prohibited without written permission from the rights holder.

ISBN: 978-1-63741-071-4

Project Team

Editor: Colleen Dorsey

Cover design: Llara Pazdan

Interior page design: Llara Pazdan

Indexer: Jay Kreider

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021945350

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Image Credits

All author photography by Alex Crawford.

The following graphics throughout are credited to Freepik (Designed by Freepik): Repeat Rainbow graphic;

Practice Journey ukulele graphic; Rockstar Ending graphic

The following images are credited to Shutterstock.com and their respective creators: illustrations (1, 6): Sono Ringo;

boy (1): New Africa; girl (7): S_Sukpon; islands (10): ShEd Artworks; ukulele (11): Istry Istry; girl (12): Roman Chazov;

smartphone (13): Nikola Stanisic; sandwich (26): summer studio; girl (27): Vasin Lee; girls (29): February_Love;

weather icons (36–38): Eugenia Petrovskaya; kids (41): Rawpixel.com; moon (43): Mr. Turgut Birgin; dog (44): Ezzolo;

letters (46): mhatzapa; bus (50): petite lili; girl (59): Yuganov Konstantin; kids (61): Rawpixel.com; girl (63): Waraphorn

Aphai; pizza graphics (66–67): primiaou; llama (72): Anastacia Trapeznikova; food graphics (75): Drawlab19; bear

(76): babachock; boy (79): AnnGaysorn; kid (85): Evgeny Atamanenko; kids (87): Ronnachai Palas; top boy (88):

Volurol; bottom boy (88): BAZA Production; girl (89): Inside Creative House; boy (89): sportoakimirka; kids (92):

gpointstudio; kids (94): Rawpixel.com; squiggly lines and hash marks (throughout): Krolja; bursts (throughout):

Fourleaflover; music notes (throughout): mhatzapa; watercolor elements (throughout): samui; Practice & Shine

Chart background (throughout): Tonktiti; blue-green background (ex. 11, throughout): Aepsilon

Color in page 1 and write your name

to make this book your own!

Hello!

Hello!

I’m Emily Arrow, and I love to play and teach

ukulele. With my ukulele, I write songs and create

videos to share with listeners around the world. And

I have a very special way of teaching music . . .

the

Arrow way

!

The ukulele is a special instrument to many

people, and for many reasons. One reason I love the

ukulele is that I can bring it with me wherever I go!

That means I can practice ukulele outdoors and on

my porch. And I can bring my ukulele to bookstores,

parks, and cafes where I can share ukulele songs

with others. And the most magical reason I love the

ukulele is that playing music makes me feel calm

and helps me learn more about myself.

If you haven’t already checked out my first

book,

Kids’ Guide to Learning the Ukulele

,

that book goes into much more detail about

learning to play the ukulele and features

different songs. But if you haven’t, don’t

worry—you’ll still learn the basics in this

book and be able to play all this book’s songs!

This songbook will explore:

•

a quick-start guide to tuning

•

8 colorful chords

•

5 strumming patterns

•

fingerpicking

•

melodies on the frets

•

and songwriting!

Are you ready to play ukulele together?

This songbook will help you sing and play

the Arrow way!

12

Tuning and Strumming

10

16

About the Ukulele

The 8 Colorful Chords

20

Strumming Patterns

Table of

Contents

Table of

Contents

30

Songs

to Learn & Play

Warm-Up Songs

The First Song Ever

..............................................

24

The 2 Chord Sandwich Song

..............................

26

The 4 Chord Song

..................................................

28

The 8 Chord Song

..................................................

30

Repeat Rainbow Song

...........................................

32

Rhythms of Nature Songs

Hello Hello

...............................................................

34

How’s the Weather?

..............................................

36

Sally Goes Round the Sun

...................................

40

Star Light, Star Bright

..........................................

42

Familiar Songs

B-I-N-G-O

................................................................

44

The Alphabet Song (ABCs)

..................................

46

Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

....................

48

The Wheels on the Bus

........................................

50

Happy Birthday to You

.........................................

52

Fingerpicking Songs

Fingerpicking Song

...............................................

54

The Music in Me

....................................................

56

Rain, Rain, Go Away

..............................................

58

Songs to Sing with Friends

The More We Get Together

................................

60

If You’re Happy and You Know It

......................

62

A Ram Sam Sam

.....................................................

64

Making a Pizza Bop! Bop!

...................................

66

More Singalong Songs

Two Little Apples

...................................................

68

Books! Books!

..........................................................

70

Down By the Bay

.....................................................

72

If All the Raindrops

................................................

74

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

...................

76

Melody Songs

LEARN: How to Play Melody on the Ukulele

....

78

Count the Frets Song

............................................

80

Bow Wow Wow

......................................................

82

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

...............................

84

London Bridge

........................................................

86

Write Your Own Songs

LEARN: How to Write Your Own Songs

..........

90

Songwriting: A Place I Love Song

.....................

92

Songwriting: Song for a Friend

.........................

94

Blank Song Templates

...........................................

96

Practice Journey

....................................................

106

Index

.............................................................................

110

About the Author

....................................................

112

Colorful Chords Tear-out Cards

.....................

113

In this section you’ll learn:

All about the ukulele

How to tune your ukulele

The 8 colorful chords

you’ll play

Different ways to strum

Getting

S

T

A

R

T

E

D

9

10

KIDS’ UKULELE SONGBOOK

ABOUT THE UKULELE

About the

The instrument we now know as the

ukulele

was

inspired by an instrument called the

machete

. The

machete was introduced to the Islands of Hawaii by

Portugese immigrants in the 1800’s and looked very

similar to a guitar before it became the ukulele. Now,

the ukulele is a widely celebrated musical instrument in

the Hawaiian Islands . . . and beyond!

oo-koo-lay-lay

When I’m practicing my ukulele, I think

it’s fun to open a songbook and learn a new

song or even write my own! So in this book,

you can learn, practice, and write songs on

your own ukulele.

Ready to strum along?

Did you know that the Hawaiian Queen

Lili‘uokalani played the ukulele? Queen

Lili‘uokalani was a songwriter, and she wrote the

song “

Aloha ‘Oe

” as well as many other songs.

I love learning about the ukulele and the many

musicians who play this special instrument.

Let’s practice pronouncing, or speaking, the

word

ukulele

.

In the Hawaiian language, the

word “ukulele” means “jumping flea,” because

the sound of the strings is light and playful like

a flea is hopping on them! The word ukulele is

pronounced like this:

oo-koo-lay-lay

.

NI’IHAU