Lots of ukulele groups around the world have their own websites full of music. Here are a few. Please contact for ones that you think would be good to add to this list.
British Ukulele Group Songbooks
MUGS
The Marlow Ukulele Group is west of London. They also have some well formatted songbooks, available here.
Worcester Ukulele Club
Worcester have three song books.
Wukulele
The Worthing Ukulele Jam (near Brighton, south coast of England) has an extensive online library of songs. 19! Songbooks!! And they are well formatted too. Click here for the index to those songs.
Ukulele Wednesday – London
USA
Dr Uke writes a lot of old jazz arrangements – he has a lot of baritone charts too.
Houkulele – Houston TX Ukulele Club – includes Hawaiian and Tahitian songbooks.
Milwaukee Ukulele Club Song Library – shhhh….this is a secret link I found accidentally….
Portland Ukulele Choir – some good stuff here!
Seattle Ukulele Players Association another secret link I found ….
San Jose Ukulele Club – some really great arrangements
Senior Ukulele Ensemble (Anacortes – Washington)
Upper Valley Uke Club – (Vermont)
Ukulenny – a few more contemporary songs
Canada
Italy
France
Tontonremy is a great site! Old jazzie numbers with nice chord progressions. You might need to intuit a little French though. Un petit peu.
Australia
BUMS (Brisbane Ukulele Musicians Society)
Richard G’s Ukulele site – lots of well written out songs (unusual choices too – thanks Suzie of Cessnock for this one). Richard Gibson is from South Australia, and known as Scorpex.
New Zealand
Shane McAlister in Paraparaumu in New Zealand rides a motorbike, teaches children, and has The Ukulele Institute.
Ukulele Hunt This is the #1 uke site in the world – and very very useful!
Chord Zone An incredible resource – weird chord shapes – 7#9s etc.
Anything below this text is old and may not work – we still need to go over it.
Chord & Strum Charts & other useful resources
Mark’s Beginners’ Guide to Scales
Mike Dickison’s Workshop Notes (inc. strumming)
Mike Dickison’s Indispensible Kiwi Ukulele Chord Chart
Chord Chart for Baritone Ukulele (do NOT use for normal ukulele!!!)
Berkeley Uke Club Strumming Patterns
Chordie.com a very useful site which transposes and switches between different tunings with ease!
Song not in the right key? Try this! A song transposer! (Thanks to Roy from LakeMacUkestra for this one)
Circle of Fifths – Pick a key, any key. The chords either side of it are very close relations and very useful to making up songs or deciphering songs that already exist. Very useful.
Clubs & Song Libraries
There are so many libraries of uke song books around the world. Here is a list of some of them. Added occasionally.
Big Muffin Serious Band Seriously good and complex tabs
The Dominator’s good and complex tabs (so good that Jake has asked for some to be removed)
Ukulele Wednesday (London somewhere). It is also should be here if that link doesn’t work.
Dale came into LakeMac Ukestra with her Dad’s banjolins & music. This is the music. Lot of good old songs. The link is to the directory where the pdf files are kept. WARNING!!! Files are 5meg+.
Videos
Fabulous videos – they are oh so goooood!! Those Canadians sure know how to teach music! With a ukulele!
‘Billie Jean’ – James Hill’s incredible version of the Michael Jackson song.
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Their very funny version of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights. More info on the UOGB at their website
Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra
This is a taster (their version of “It’s a Heartache” by Bonnie Tyler) – look them up at their website if you wish to know more. Their version of Dreaming of you is already posted on the Ukestra music site
Uke Medley of Stand by me, Beautiful Girls and Every Breath you take
Ain’t she sweet – McCartney & Harrison on ukulele + Ringo(1994)
I’m Yours – 5 year old on his ukulele
Same 5 year old – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Pasifika: Sione Aleki – Old School Ukelele Star
The Old Spice Boys- Milestones live at Spiegeltent Edinburgh
Bosko & Honey with Rose Turtle Ertler
Odd little useful things
UkePDF is a graphical program for most computers (Mac, Windows, Linux, etc.) that converts song lyrics & chord names into PDFs like those found at DoctorUke