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Easy Reading Silent Night in C for Ukulele

December really crept up on us this year, but I will take comfort that this page will go on to be viewed for years to come when hopefully it’s a lot jollier than here in 2020!

This sheet has been created so that beginner ukulele players can learn to play jingle bells using these easy to read chords. With it being digital, you might want to zoom in on the chords to learn them. If you are printing them off onto A4, the size of the chords won’t quite be as ‘easy reading’ but they still will be easier than some tiny chord boxes you might find on other sheets.

There are lyrics to go along with the chords, which should hopefully help with the first verse. Master that first and then you should find singing with verse 2 and 3 a bit easier.

Free PDF Download

PDF – Silent Night in C – ukulele chords easy reading

If you liked this free sheet, you can find easy reading ebooks like this in my ebook store, such as Beginners Ukulele Chords Book (Easy Reading) and First Ukulele Book – Easy Reading.

‘Sun Shines Through The Window’ – Blues Play Along Track – Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Ukulele, Drums and Vocals

Listen to the track at 90bpm:

70bpm:

60bpm:

 

Download the MP3 file – Sun Shines Through The Window (Full Speed)

Download the Guitar Pro 7 file – Sun Shines Through The Window

LEAD GTR – Sun Shines Through The Window – PDF Sheet Music
RHYTHM GUITAR – Sun Shines Through The Window – PDF Sheet Music
UKULELE – Sun Shines Through The Window – PDF Sheet Music
BASS GUITAR – Sun Shines Through The Window – PDF Sheet Music
LYRICS – The sun shines through the window – TXT File

This song has been written as an educational piece for Drums, Guitar, Bass and Ukulele. I made it for my students to learn and I am sharing it online for everyone else too. I created the piece in Guitar Pro 7, which is a great way to learn and practice this because you can mute insruments and change the speed and even change parts if you like.

This blues song is played straight, without swing. There are drum beats and fills in the piece in keeping with the blue style. You could solo the drums and bass on it’s own to practice locking in with the bass – making sure the bass drum syncs up with the bass guitar when ever they are played together.

12 Bar Blues

The pattern of the 12 bar blues usually follows a pattern of chord changes. The pattern of bars where the main chord changes are is this: 4,2,2,1,1,1,1.

The pattern below is clearer. It uses roman numerals to show which chord in the diatonic chord sequence that is being used.:

I / / /

IV / I /

V IV I V

Lyrics

I wrote this song originally for just the instruments, but I thought it would be good to write some lyrics in case there are any singers out there that would like to sing along too. I have a rough idea of how it would go in my head, but I’m no singer, so you’re on your own!

VERSE 1

The sun shines through the window
And I’m stuck inside the house
It’s half past 1 in the afternoon,
And the day is going fast

I’m tryin to make things work
I’m tryin to make things rhyme,
But there’s harder times ahead,
And I’m running out of time.

I can’t see when this will end
All my plans are on their head
But the sun keeps shining through
Takin’ away those blues

VERSE 2

The sun shines through the window
And I’m stuck inside the house
It’s half past 2 in the afternoon,
And the day is going fast

I’m tryin to make things work
I’m tryin to make things rhyme,
But there’s harder times ahead,
And I’m running out of time.

I can’t see when this will end
All my plans are on their head
But the sun keeps shining through
Takin’ away those blues

VERSE 3

The sun shines through the window
And I’m stuck inside the house
It’s half past 3 in the afternoon,
And the day is going fast

I’m going to make things work
I’m going to make things rhyme,
But there’s harder times ahead,
And I’m running out of time.

I can’t see when this will end
All my plans are on their head
But the sun keeps shining through
Takin’ away those blues

About the lyrics

This song and it’s lyrics were written during the Covid-19 corona virus and it’s about having your job taken away and having to rebuild and adapt before you get into financial trouble. Many people will be in this situation with governments being very slow to offer financial support. I hope learning and playing this song can give some enjoyment to people in this strange time of crisis.

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I will add your videos to this page if you record yourself playing it. Please get in contact.

Drums

Head over to learndrumsrforfree.com to get the files for the drums.

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Jingle Bells in C – Chords & Melody – Guitar & Ukulele

The sheet music below includes guitar chords, guitar melody, ukulele chords, ukulele melody and lyrics for the popular traditional Christmas song, Jingle Bells.

Jingle Bells is in the public domain so there are no copyright issues for printing and performing this song.

The chords have been written out to be played with rhythm. This rhythm is aimed to be accessible for beginner guitar players and ukulele beginners.

Guitar Chords & Melody

Ukulele Chords

Ukulele Melody

Computer Games Music – PDF Ebook – Ukulele, Guitar, Bass Sheet Music with TAB

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Also available for Drums

Full Ukulele Tab sheet music for 11 computer music songs. ‘Computer Games Music’ uses the MIDI from songs written by TL Music Lessons for teaching purposes using ‘Guitar Pro’ software. The MIDI is run through various synths in Abelton Live and the songs have been made faster. Drums and Bass Guitar have also been added to the original 10 Acoustic Guitar & Ukulele Songs.

Audio

In addition to this free sheet music download, the 11 track album ‘Computer Games Music’ by TL Music Lessons is available on Spotify, Bandcamp and other stores.

About the Sheet Music

Most of the pieces have 3 difficulty levels, so therefore there are 60 pages in the guitar book and 49 pages in the ukulele book ebook to accommodate all of the versions. The fast pace of the songs pushes up the difficulty level quite high in places. A slower, acoustic version of the songs can be found here. The bass ebook has 15 pages and there is only 1 difficulty level.

These could potentially be used as performance pieces in schools, or maybe even exams as a free choice piece if you ask an exam board. Feel completely free to use the audio as a backing track by downloading it from itunes or bandcamp etc and using it to play along with.

About The Music

Last year I made an album of 10 songs to teach with, and created 6 ebooks for the instrument parts. This year, I made an album of 11 songs called ‘Computer Game Music’.

This year I exported the MIDI files from 8 of those songs, plus 3 new ones, and began adding synths to the MIDI in my music production software Abelton Live 9 to create music that I think would sound good in computer games. I found it quite easy, quick and enjoyable to do when I initially messed about with one of the songs for fun. I then decided to start the project, which only took about a month of spare time to create the new album of songs. I also added drums and bass guitar to the tracks to finish them off.

The drums were created by me in Abelton using the MIDI piano roll and a drum rack. I really enjoyed this! I then transcribed the drum loops into actual drum sheet music for people to learn to play along with the music if they wanted to.

The drum sheet music has a wide range of ability levels from complete beginner (Canon in C), right up to grade 8 with some complicated syncopation at high speeds. All of the drum loops were created specifically for these songs. I tried to make the majority of the beats playable by a real drummer. I was able to transcribe and transpose most of the beats without altering them, but there were some that would need extra hands, such as the hand claps and clave polyrhythms, so these have been left out or modified where I thought appropriate.

Music makers and music producers can feel free to use the drum loops audio and midi as they wish. You may freely use them in your own compositions. School pupils may also use the drum loops pack as they wish for school projects or coursework, if this is within the guidelines of the work.

I hope that the songs can be used by a range of abilities. I would say most or all ability levels would find challenges throughout the album, depending on which instrument you look at. They are all quite challenging in places.

I hope that the songs can be used by more advanced players. Initially the previous album of music was created for grades 1-3 (guitar and ukulele only), but now for this new one, I would say most or all ability levels would find challenges throughout the album, depending on which instrument you look at. They are all quite challenging in places.
I also hope that the songs can be used as backing tracks for performances, for example in schools, and possibly as part of marked school performances or maybe even as free choice pieces in grade exams.

I also hope that my students will enjoy listening to the album after getting to know the songs in their different style.

Whilst the songs have not been created for any particular computer game, I will try to get some of the music featured in actual games. I think they would work well with platform and retro type games.

(PREMIUM) – Guitar & Ukulele Basic Beginners Book 1

Since writing this ebook, I have developed some ‘Easy Reading’ guitar and ukulele scales and melodies ebooks, so although this page says ‘Book 1’, you might want to take a look at those easy reading books first, especially for younger players.

 

2 for 1: The premium download includes 1 book for guitar and 1 book for ukulele.

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People that might find these books useful

  • Guitar & Ukulele teachers can print the book or single sheets for their students
  • Students can teach themselves to learn the basics if they have some reading knowledge
  • Supplementary learning material for students that have guitar lessons
  • Beginner ukulele players and guitarists looking for some easy songs or exercises to get started with

Contents Highlights

17 topics of study for guitar and ukulele that is aimed at complete beginners. The book has a mixture of public domain songs, easy scales, easy melody exercises and easy chord exercises.

Teaching Notes

The books are designed so that even age 5 or 6 could play some of the pieces and exercises, so it starts off very easy with simple melodies such as Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, that almost everyone can play to some extent in their first lesson. There is however content for all ages in this book and the majority of content is designed to be played by all ages.

The book also takes a while to move onto chords. Like I said at the start of the post, I have developed some ‘Easy Reading’ books recently and at the time of updating this page for a new website launch (Jan 2019), I also have some ‘Easy Reading Chords’ ebooks in the pipeline, which have worked really well with my students. Check out the ebooks section and look for the Easy Reading Chords books – they’ll probably be available by the time you read this.

Example Page from the Guitar ebook:

Full Contents

3. Contents
4. Introduction
5. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
6. Ice Cream
7. Canon in C – 2 sections
8. Silent Night in C – melody
9. 4 finger note / string / fret exercises
10. C major and A minor scales for beginners melodies
11. Canon in C – 3 sections
12. 2 melody exercises in C major
13. 2 melody exercises in A minor
14. Autumn Leaves
15. One Drop
16. Em and Am Chord Exercises 1-12
20. 5 Easy Chord Progressions with E, A, D, Em, Am, Dm (Free Preview)
21. Robin Reddocke – chords
22. C major scale practice with chords
23. Silent Night in C – chords + melody
24. Melody Exercises – A minor scale

About the book

The book is designed for use with teaching students with reading from as early as the first lesson if they are capable. All of the sheets are supposed to be achievable fairly quickly and easily by guitar and ukulele students of any age. Even students from the age of 5 or 6 could play some of these sheets. A teacher using this book would need to gauge the ability of the student. Often having something written down helps the student so even if they cannot read much of the music, they will be able to understand fret numbers and hopefully chord boxes too.

The best thing about these books is that the guitar and ukulele versions are compatible so if you happen to have beginner guitar and ukulele students in the same group, then you will be able to use these books to play along together. I don’t have many of these groups and they don’t always have a lesson together, but sometimes it works really well to have guitar and ukulele students playing together or learning in a group.

Final Thoughts

I hope that this book helps people get started quickly with learning guitar or ukulele and playing along to songs with others. The aim of this book is to progress quickly through it and to provide satisfaction through achieving. I hope to break down the barriers to getting started with learning guitar and ukulele with this book.

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Deck The Halls – Guitar, Ukulele and Bass Melody and Chords Sheet Music with TAB

Photo Credit: Brendan C

Here’s a quick and easy melody to play on Christmas day that everyone knows. In the sheet music you will find the notation and guitar tab for playing the melody on guitar, ukulele or bass guitar. There are also chords above the melody, which can be played as an accompaniment.

Guitar Melody

Ukulele Melody

Bass Melody

Silent Night in C – Melody and Chords – Guitar, Ukulele, Piano, Violin, Flute

Photo Credit: Alice Popkorn

This song is also featured in the Christmas Songs Ebook for Guitar, Ukulele and Lyrics.

Silent night is one of the best Christmas songs for beginner guitarists to play chords with, for both guitarists and ukulele players.

Silent night is a public domain Christmas song.

The sheet music contains the guitar chords and ukulele chords for the song, along with sheets for the melodies too. There are also versions for piano, flute and violin.

There are only 3 chords needed: C, F and G.

 

Guitar Melody

Ukulele Melody

Flute / Violin Melody

Piano Melody & Chords (Left and Right Hand)

Guitar Chords

Ukulele Chords

PDF – Easy – Silent Night Ukulele in C
PDF – Medium – Ukulele Chords with Strumming – Silent Night in C

We Wish You A Merry Christmas – Guitar & Ukulele Chords

Photo Credit: Kevin Dooley

You can download the pdfs of this song and more in this Christmas Ebook.

This song is really great for working on chord changes. You don’t always find songs easily with the basic chords in (and no barre chords), but this song has a good selection of them. No capo needed either.

The chords featured in the song are as follows: A, B7, C, D, Em, G.

The chords are basic on both guitar and ukulele and can be learned by beginners. More intermediate or advanced players can develop the rhythm rather than doing single strums.

Guitar Melody

Guitar Chords

Ukulele Melody

Ukulele Chords

We Three Kings – Guitar and Ukulele Sheet Music with Tab

This is quite a majestic Christmas song – one of my favourites in the public domain. It is great for building up chord changing skills and for learning how to play simple melodies on the guitar and ukulele.

There are only 2 sections to the song. You can keep playing Verse, Chorus, Verse, Chorus for as long as you like.

Guitar

Ukulele

Autumn Leaves – A Ukulele and Guitar song for kids

Photo Credit: Travis Simon

Autumn Leaves is a Ukulele and Guitar song for kids about the colours of Autumn Leaves and falling from the tree.

The chords are easy for beginners and the words are easy to sing along. There is a basic notated melody, but you can make up your own to suit the singers.

The song is ideal for primary schools, from about year 1-5. You can listen to the audio example of a group of year 5 girls playing the song on guitar here:

GUITAR (EASY CHORDS)

UKULELE

GUITAR

(Premium) – 10 Acoustic Guitar & Ukulele Songs – Beginners to Intermediate – Audio & PDF Sheet Music Ebooks

***These are 10 original songs written by TL Music Lessons for teaching purposes, to get students using chords and melodies in real song scenarios, which have been written specifically for beginners from grade 1 to 3.***

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What’s in the download?

  • 10 audio tracks
  • 10 more audio tracks with count in (for playing along)
  • 3 x PDF sheet music ebooks for GUITAR (Level 1-3)
  • 3 x PDF sheet music ebooks for UKULELE (Level 1-3)
  • 10 ‘Guitar Pro’ master files containing all the music notation

About the 6 Individual Sheet Music ebooks

  • Guitar 1: Beginners Guitar focusing more on chords
  • Guitar 2: Advanced Beginners focusing more on melody
  • Guitar 3: Beginners to Intermediate focusing more on lead
  • Ukulele 1: Beginners Guitar focusing more on chords
  • Ukulele 2: Advanced Beginners focusing more on melody
  • Ukulele 3: Beginners to Intermediate focusing more on lead

Who is it for?

  • Grade 1-3 levels of guitar and ukulele
  • Guitar Teachers, Ukulele Teachers can print these for their students
  • Leaders of Guitar and/or Ukulele ensembles
  • Students looking to learn on their own

Audio (included in the premium download)

Useful Copyright Info: You are free to print copies of the sheet music for educational or performance purposes and you are also free to perform the songs in public.