Night Beat

The Ukulele Baby Songbook can be purchased online at theredlegs.com. You can see the entry at

http://www.theredlegs.com/JoeTate.html

It is 40 pages and contains 18 songs of varying difficulty. Each song has chord charts for baritone and tenor ukulele on the facing page . The songs are on odd numbered pages and the chord charts are on the even pages. This way the student sees the song arrangement on the right hand page and the chords on the left hand page. A CD is included which has all the songs performed by Joe Tate.

My daughter in law was pregnant and she asked me to make a CD of ukulele music to play for the unborn child. I recorded 18 songs which I thought suitable for children. This CD was played often during the pregnancy. After Zoe was born we noticed that she had special responses to ukulele music. If she was crying or upset, a few chords on the ukulele would usually calm her down.

I was laid up for a few months the following year and, while lying in bed with my laptop, I wrote out charts for all the songs and made them into the songbook called Ukulele Baby. Naturally we think of Zoe as the Ukulele Baby. If you want to learn to play, this is a good place to start. The book is simple and easy to understand with emphasis on learning by ear rather than the tedium of standard music decorum.

To learn more about Joe Tate go to

http://xrl.in/4y57

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