Empowering Beginners with Guided Instruction
Learning ukulele can be daunting at first, but with help from the Modern Band Method, you’ll go from an absolute beginner to playing popular songs in no time! Throughout this book's 64 pages, guided lesson plans take you through all the essentials like tuning, reading music, basic soloing, and more. And once you learn a technique, you’ll immediately apply the lessons to hit songs like "Smells like Teen Spirit," "Uptown Funk," and "Can’t Stop the Feeling!" The Modern Band Method series is ideal for group learning, so budding ukulele players can learn alongside their bandmates on guitar, bass, and drums. Solo learners can also pick up and play along with the accompanying online lessons and tracks. Grab your copy of the Modern Band Method from Sweetwater and get on the fast track right away!
Learn the ukulele quickly with included lessons
The Modern Band Method book comes packed with these lessons, which you can also access online through the Hal Leonard website:
- Tuning
- Reading music and tablature
- Chords and strum patterns
- Syncopation
- Hammer-ons, pull-offs, and slides
- Fingerstyle
- Composing a song
- Writing lyrics
Play along with favorite songs
The lessons in this book can be applied right away to hit songs. Learn them as a group or play along with the accompanying tracks online:
- "Am I Evil?"
- "Bad"
- "Bad Romance"
- "Best Day Of My Life"
- "Can't Stop The Feeling!"
- "Closer"
- "Come As You Are"
- "Dark Horse"
- "Dazed And Confused"
- "The Edge Of Glory"
- "Heathens"
- "I Gotta Feeling"
- "Imagine"
- "Kick Push"
- "Little Talks"
- "Love On The Weekend"
- "The Man Who Sold The World"
- "Mannish Boy"
- "Misirlou"
- "Oye Como Va"
- "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
- "Seven Nation Army"
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
- "Someone Like You"
- "Stir It Up"
- "Sunshine Of Your Love"
- "Supermassive Black Hole"
- "25 Or 6 To 4"
- "U Can't Touch This"
- "Umbrella"
- "Under Pressure"
- "Uptown Funk"
- "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)"
- "Wake Me Up"
- "Wild Thing"
- "Without You"
- "Zombie"
Hal Leonard Modern Band Method — Ukulele Book 1 Features:
- Helps you quickly learn ukulele through a series of guided lessons
- Lessons can be applied to popular songs right away
- Ideal for group learning alongside other instruments like guitar, bass, and drums
- Lessons can also be learned independently
- Online access to instructional video lessons and play-along tracks
