A couple of months ago, I attended an all day ukulele intensive workshop that was led by Geoff Davis of the Blue Stone Folk School. During the class, a couple of students were asking for ukulele instructional book suggestions. Geoff recommended Ukulele Method Book 1 by Lil’ Rev. I’ve seen several of Lil’ Rev’s videos on YouTube and immediately plunked down $9.95 for the book with CD.

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I taught myself to play fingerstyle guitar when I was a teenager. I would sit on my bed for hours at a time with various tablature books that I had purchased from Elderly Instruments. It was a surprise that as soon as I found myself interested in the ukulele, that I began searching for tablature books on the style I like best: fingerstyle. The first book that I was lucky to stumble upon was the Learn To Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele by Mark Kailana Nelson.

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When I first became interested in the Ukulele and bought an instrument, I was concerned that I would have a hard time learning to play it on my own. I knew my small town would not have any teachers, and I was pretty sure that books and instructional materials were hard to come by for what I thought was an obscure instrument. I’ve since learned just how wrong I was about the availability of self-instructional materials on the market. There are DVDs, Books, websites with free tablature and YouTube tutorials just to name a few. Today I want to tell you about yet another category of media that can help an aspiring uke player to learn their craft… eBooks. eBooks (otherwise known as electronic books), are the digital counterpart to regular printed books. One such book is the How To Play Christmas Ukulele compiled by Al Woodshed of Uke Hunt and How To Play Ukulele websites.

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