Titan M's 2 Chord Companion : 157 Two Chord Songs : Ukulele Friendly Keys: Classic Songs for All Players - From Novice to Veteran - Teachers, Soloists ... and More . . . (Ukulele Awesome Sauce)

This is a terrific book full of great two chord songs! You definitely cannot go wrong with this!

For the past few years, I’ve been playing with several ukulele groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, all of whom welcome beginners. Each newbie who appears learns a couple of chords their first night, enough to be able to play at least a song or two with us. Often we get stuck for songs that use only two or three chords. But no longer. TITAN M’S 2 CHORD COMPANION, edited by M. Ryan Taylor, contains 157 songs – each of which requires the ability to play only two chords (though not always the same two chords for all songs).A confirmed sheet music hoarder, I’ve amassed thousands of PDFs of songs tabbed for ukulele. Most of the songs in this 2 CHORD COMPANION are traditionals from countries around the world – folk songs, sea shanties, kid songs, and such – yet I was familiar with only a few of them. Hooray! In other words, this songbook will open the gates to new musical territory for a lot of people.Don’t know the melodies? No problem. A quick YouTube search will always turn up someone somewhere doing some version of any particular song. And, in addition to two chords, notation is included for each song for those who read music, at least a little. I anticipate this songbook will prove to be a great tool both for the teaching of others and for self-teaching.Oftentimes while we are playing, we become so fixated on staring at the music on our stands that we can hardly manage such basics as actually LISTENING for a chord change or HEARING the relationship between two chords. As a result, we have no idea when a change will occur; we also don’t know where that change will take us. But with only two chords to handle in any song, we don’t have to look at the music at all – we can simply listen and play. Very liberating.Meanwhile, more advanced players can use these two-chord songs to experiment with adding/substituting chords, transposing, fingerpicking, and various forms of noodling around. Finally, I LOVE the way the contents of this songbook are organized: (1) Alphabetical, (2) By Topic, (3) By Chord Pairs, and finally, (4) By Chord Relation.

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Here's an excellent resource for music teachers, campfire strummers, musical parents or anyone learning the ukulele. I was amazed and surprised by the breadth and variety of this collection, all songs with only two chords."Two-chord songs" sounds like it could be limiting, but the permutations are almost limitless. There are various intervals, major and minor chords and many different keys. Learning all the songs will build a solid vocabulary of ukulele chords.The songs come from a broad range of sources: traditional songs from around the world (United States, England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Japan, Israel, Brazil, etc.), bluegrass and Appalachian songs, Christian hymns, campfire songs, rounds of all sorts, lullabies and children's games, cowboy songs, and on and on. It's really an amazing assortment of the familiar and the new.The book is indexed by alphabetical song title, by topic, by the chords in the song, and by the intervals between the chords. The last two will be really useful in learning or teaching intermediate-level chords and in ear training.Chord symbols are included for standard and baritone ukuleles, plus guitar. The music typesetting is clean and clear and most of the songs are laid out on one page. Rounds are arranged so the overlapping parts are above each other on the page. It's a very user-friendly layout.The only quibbles I could mention are a fair number of typos and the inclusion of three versions (!) of Beethoven's "Ode To Joy". If you count them as one song, it's only 155 different songs, but they're good ones.I'm glad to have this collection and I will be using it often in the classes I teach.

As a ukulele teacher, I'm always on the look out for beginners' songs and this is a copious resource of such material. Usually I'm after I and V or I & IV songs, as my pupils can quickly pick up C and F but find the move to G or G7 more challenging. As well as plenty of songs using C and F (and plenty more in different keys that could easily be transposed) this book collates songs with other pairs of chords. The index is provided in several useful formats: alphabetical, by general lyrics themes or types of song (e.g. rounds, lullabies, songs with nonsense words), by chord pairs (e.g. Dm and C) and by chord relationships (e.g. I - ii) so it makes it incredibly user-friendly for a teacher, as well as for the novice who only knows, say Am and D. I love the layout - having the notation for the melodies is so useful if some of the songs are unfamiliar and including guitar chords, soprano and baritone ukulele chord windows gives flexibility in terms of forces. There is a decent range of types of music represented here: folk songs from Japan, Australia, Canada, England, Ireland, Brazil, Wales, spirituals, Beethoven, even some medieval plainchant (although to be really picky, C5 needs to be used here as a drone). There's a preponderance of American songs, which is entirely understandable given who has done all the hard work to put the book together! I'm very grateful for this resource and am going to use it a great deal in school! Highly recommended.