Mel Bay Ukulele Picking Tunes: Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles - Sarek - Ukulele - Book

Author: Ondrej Sarek
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Ukulele
Level: Intermediate

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.

Contents:

• An Drochshaol (The Hard Times)
• Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
• Cailin Deas Cr ite na mB  (Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow)
• Call the Ewes
• Down by the Sally Gardens
• Fair Flower of Northumberland
• Fields of Culloden
• I Went to Visit the Roses
• Irish Prayer
• Jock O'Hazeldean
• John Anderson, My Jo
• My Irish Home
• Once I Had a Sweetheart
• Scarborough Fair
• She Moved Through the Fair
• Sheebeg and Sheemor
• Star of the County Down
• The Flowers of Sweet Erin the Green
• The Galway Shawl
• The Marsh of Rhuddlan
• The Shearing's Not for You
• The Water Is Wide
• Wild Mountain Thyme