If you know somewhere between 4 and 10 chords already, you're ready. Every entry in the songbook shows the exact chord shapes a song uses and a difficulty rating counted from the actual chart — Easy means four shapes or fewer — so you can tell at a glance whether a song works for you today. The bonus strumming patterns and capo tutorial start from scratch — no prior experience with either one needed. If you haven't learned any chords yet, start with Uke Night Method: Play Your Favorite Songs in 3 Days — it'll get you there in one weekend.

Start with Uke Night Method: Play Your Favorite Songs in 3 Days instead. It teaches you chords from zero and includes its own song library built for learning. The Songbook is the standalone collection for players who already have some chords under their fingers — bigger, growing, and with no beginner lessons in it.

You can — and I'll be straight with you: the songbook links out to Ultimate Guitar for the chord charts themselves. The lyrics and chords belong to the songwriters and their publishers. A printed songbook can put them on the page because someone paid to license them, which is why it costs what it costs and why it's the same songs forever. Online, at this price, linking out is how it's done.

What you're paying for is everything around the charts, and it's more work than it looks. The song list comes out of five years of live Uke Night events — I know which of these gets a room singing and which one dies, because I've played them. Then every song had to be matched to the right chart out of the dozen versions floating around, checked that it's a ukulele chart and not a guitar one, and rated for difficulty off the shapes it actually uses — then verified a second time, song by song. Doing that yourself is an evening per handful of songs. Here it's a search box. At $37, it pays for itself before you've finished vetting your first dozen.

The bonus lessons teach three specific patterns — down-up, island strum, and a percussive pattern — plus how to mix them within a single song and use dynamics and groove to change the feel. Even if you've picked up patterns on your own, the exercise videos and the approach to combining patterns will give you more range than most self-taught players have.

Not right away. The strumming patterns and the whole songbook work without one. But a capo costs a few dollars and dramatically expands what you can play — the bonus tutorial shows you how to use the same chord shapes in any key. If you don't have one yet, it'll make you want one.

One-time purchase. $37, lifetime access. The songbook grows over time with new songs, and you get every update at no extra cost.

You're covered by the Songs You Love Guarantee. If within 7 days you don't find songs in the songbook that make you want to pick up your ukulele, email us and we'll refund every penny. No questions.