Last updated: December 29, 2016
Here’s my ever growing mega-list of fingerstyle and solo ukulele tab resources. There are also tabs for a lot of my own arrangements on this site.
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Sites with Free Fingerstyle Ukulele Tabs
fingerstyle-rules.de
A goldmine with dozens of free fingerstyle tabs at the intermediate level, alphabetized. Mostly popular and traditional tunes.
Ukulele Secrets
Tim Keough offers up many high quality fingerstyle tabs on his site and has YouTube videos showing how they are played and sound.
Nalu Music tabs
The late great ukulele master John King’s website. Some of his amazing classical tabs are posted here for free. His books (see below) are also highly recommended.
Dominator Tabs
Large collection of high quality tabs, many with MP3 and/or video accompaniment.
Ukulele Dav & Arnaud.D Tabs
Some real gems on this site. It’s in French so I can’t tell you too much about it, but tabs and music transcend language.
PDF Minstrel
Huge collection of Roger Ruthen’s arrangements for both high G and baritone ukulele.
Michael Parmenter’s Classical Ukulele Tabs
Lots of PDFs of public domain classical music tabbed out for ukulele. Some low G, some high.
Sheet Music for Instrumental Ukulele from The Ukulele Review
The Ukulele Site provides stunning performance videos of almost every ukulele they sell online. Now you can download tabs for some of those pieces here.
EZ Folk Ukulele Tabs
A few dozen solo tabs of well known folk tunes. Very easy to play.
Ukulele Hunt
Mixed bag of tabs, many of which are instrumental and most of which are relatively easy to play. Recently, Al collected a bunch of beginner-focussed fingerstyle/picking resources on his site into one handy page.
Ukulele Underground Tabs Forum
The tabs forum at Ukulele Underground has an enormous archive. It’s not well organized, but if you’re looking for something specific, this is a good place to search. And if you don’t find what you’re looking for, ask and you will likely receive.
Gord’s Uke Blog
Gordon Lustig has a bunch of nice fingerstyle arrangements (and some duets, too!) on his blog.
Live Ukulele Tabs
This large collection of tabs has many fine solo and fingerstyle arrangements mixed in. Worth spending some time to sift through it.
A fairly monstrous collection of original arrangements by “Putter”, organized by genre (popular, jazz/blues, classical, Irish…)
Sites with Paid Fingerstyle Ukulele Tabs
More and more ukulele players are charging for their arrangements. If a few bucks doesn’t cramp your style, there are lots of tabs out there to buy. Support a working musician!
Jonathan Lewis offers a wonderful e-book of traditional Irish music arranged in the Campanella style. Hear him play the arrangements at YouTube.
Uke of Carl has several e-books that sell for under $10, ranging from Christmas to classical.
Stephanie Young offers a number of e-books and they’re very solid. She also sells a bunch of books on Amazon.
Ukulele Mike Lynch is a YouTube phenom who also sells his tasteful arrangements for low dollars on his site. He’s got some free ones sprinkled in if you poke around.
James Holding of classicalukulele.co.uk offers a free taster along with lots of inexpensive eBooks packed with high quality classical ukulele arrangements.
Wilfried Welti’s solo ukulele page offers a couple free e-books of solo ukulele tabs as well as several high quality books for sale at very reasonable prices. Ukulele Hunt has Welti’s 46 page Solo Ukulele for Beginners available for free.
Samantha Muir, an accomplished classical guitar player from Australia, has created four e-books of classical guitar study pieces arrange for ukulele. Her website has videos of the songs included in each.
Fingerstyle Ukulele Books
If I have the book, this links to my review. Otherwise, these go direct to Amazon.
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- 10 Classical Essentials for the Ukulele: Volume. 1
She has tons of other books too – click her name on this page to see them all.
- Jazz Chord Solos For Ukulele – 10 Standards Arranged for Tenor Ukulele (Book/CD with TAB)
Note: These arrangements are for Low G tuning.
- Ukulele Chord Melody Solos: Tips and Tricks for Arranging Songs on the Ukulele
- Ukulele Chord Melody by Susan Howell – 40+ popular songs and some jazz standards in fairly simple arrangements
- Jumpin Jim’s Ukulele Masters: Lyle Ritz – and if that’s too rich for your blood, try Lyle Lite: 16 Easy Chord Solos
Learning Resources
jons-ukulele.com
Jon’s Ukulele Site has some good campanella practice tabs as well as a couple of nice arrangements.
Curt Sheller
Curt’s site is gigantic. You’ll want to spend some time going through the navigation. Lots of free stuff as tasters, including a free weekly lesson, the best method I’ve found for learning the ukulele fretboard and an amazing book packed with practice material. A few bucks will get you access to all 580 of his lessons and eBooks.
7 Common Ukulele Scales
ukulelescales.com offers this free PDF with most of the scales you’ll ever need unless you’re doing jazz. Practicing these is a great way to work on agility, speed and strength. And knowing them will make improvising solos a lot easier.
Fretboard Roadmaps – Ukulele: The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use
Practice Drills
Uke of Carl offers this 31 page ebook with 28 scales to hone your chops. Scales are provided in each key and in both traditional and campanella style.
Campanella Scales in all 12 Keys
This PDF is a treasure. The link goes to a post on the Ukulele Underground Forum. Ping me on Twitter or comment here if it doesn’t work and I can send you the PDF.
Gary Jugert provides this epic piece of work for free. The full book is a whopping 62 pages of tabs that will “assist students in developing tablature reading skills, recognizing chord arrangements in standard notation, finding closed-chord formations throughout the fretboard, increasing left hand dexterity for chord changes, and building fluency with arpeggios and melodic movement in the right hand”. A huge contribution, and something that could keep you busy for weeks, if not months.
Curt Sheller’s site is mentioned above, but worth mentioning again here for his excellent free eBook of practice material.
Ukulele Aerobics: For All Levels, from Beginner to Advanced
Something Missing?
If you know of a great resource that isn’t here, please let me know in a comment.
Hi,
just quick note during work: THANKS SO MUCH for your beautiful page. I love it. And THAKNS for mentioning my site on your links list. Just glad you appreciate it.
Keep on Picking !!
Best, Frank
You’re welcome, Frank. Your tabs are great.
Samantha Muir has inexpensive ebooks with classical finger style arrangements and one with sea shanties/folk songs (see Samanthamuir.com). She is also on You tube – 4Uke.
Thanks for the tip! Her books look great – I will add a link now.
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I find ispiration and spend some good uke time with tab by Putter (an ukuleleunderground forum user) you can download, and sometimes hear, from his pages
https://sites.google.com/site/tabs4ukes/
he named UkeFever.
Thank you for your site,
Fede
Thats an excellent resource, thanks for sharing!
What a fantastic article. It is amazing what the Ukulele can do. Such a versatile instrument. Here is my arrangement of a classical piece ‘Poet and Peasant Overture’ – Ukulele Solo – finger style – Melody:
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are wonderful <3
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The link for the PDF Campanella Scales in all 12 Keys is no longer valid. Could you share?
Hi Uke Nut
I am writing to ask whether you would be interested in reviewing my new book “Song Arrangements For Ukulele Groups”.
Many uke players have been strumming and singing along for some years now and I wanted to take things a step further and offer arrangements for groups to play. So I have written “Song Arrangements for Ukulele Groups” containing well-known songs set in Tab for a variety of uke parts. The idea is to get people playing different lines, like in an orchestra; so there are opportunities for strumming, fingerpicking, tune, harmony, low G, even baritone uke. The wide variety of parts means there is something for players of different abilities.
Here is a short Youtube video showing some of my pupils playing tunes from the book: https://youtu.be/klS2cJXK8f8
And you can find out more on my website http://www.theukeshack.co.uk/ukulele-book
I can send you a hard copy if you are interested.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks
Robin Walter
Hi
Have just put up a website containing chord melody arrangements that may be of interest to fingerstyle players.
ukeeducation.org
Thanks for doing this.