Thanks to a generous donation from the Bloomington Ukulele Club, you can learn to play this fun four-stringed instrument by borrowing one from the Library.
Ukulele kits are available for checkout at the Downtown Library or you can place one on hold and pickup at any of our holds locations. Included in the kits are a ukulele, a tuner, an information sheet, and a chord chart. You can also take your skills a step further with free online ukulele video lessons through LinkedIn Learning—or with these items in the our collection.
Submitted by Jane R.
Movies
Adult Movies & Music – 787.89 Joy
Teaches the basics, showing strums and bringing the starting player quickly from the simplest songs to old-time pop standards.
Adult Movies & Music – 787.89 Uku
Lessons on picking patterns, harmonized scales, and other playing techniques for beginning and intermediate players.
Nonfiction
Adult Nonfiction – 787.89 Sok
Covers technique, improvising and soloing, equipment, practicing, ear training, performance, and uke history and lore.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.89 Gro
Authored by a member of the world-renowned Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, this book is clearly written and full of photos and illustrations.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Hor
Explores musical styles such as old school, ragtime, Hawaiian, fingerstyle, rock and rhythms from around the world.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Joh
A workout program for developing, improving, and maintaining ukulele technique.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Mcq
Hundreds of exercises and drills to improve strumming and fingerpicking.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Gro
An all-encompassing guide on how to play, ukulele history, beginner and advanced techniques, famous pluckers, how to write songs, and how best to play in a group.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.89 Woo
An introduction to chords, strumming, fingerpicking, and different genres and styles, along with advice on selecting and caring for an instrument.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.89193 Cha
Diagrams designed to help in memorizing scales and chords that may have previously seemed difficult to grasp.
Adult Nonfiction – 787.8919 Pre
An illustrated guide to the instrument’s history, as well as a how-to guide and songbook.