Ukulele Picking Tunes Beautiful Airs And Ballads Of The British Isles

Download or read book Ukulele Picking Tunes - Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles written by Ondrej Sarek and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of 23 melodies from the British Isles, award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Ondrej Sarek treats the soprano ukulele as the lyrical solo instrument it can truly be. Along with fingerstyle arrangements of traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing, and the timeless melodies of Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan, the book includes settings of a few original tunes by Mel Bay Publications president, William Bay. All arrangements appear in gCEA tuning in standard notation and uke tablature with suggested backup chords and occasional light fingering.