Product Description

Here's ukulele fun for the whole family! Jumpin' Jim's Camp Ukulele is a collection of 40 of some of the best-loved family sing-along songs with easy-to-play ukulele arrangements. Tunes include: Clementine * Go Down, Moses * Happy Trails * Home on the Range * The Lion Sleeps Tonight * The Sloop John B. * Take Me Out to the Ballgame * This Land Is Your Land * Waltzing Matilda * You Are My Sunshine * and many others. This songbook features many vintage summer fun photographs, a chord chart, and a basic how-to-play section.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37020 in Books
• Brand: Hal Leonard
• Published on: 2000-10
• Released on: 2000-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

Features

• By Jim Beloff. 40 easy, popular sing-along songs for the soprano ukulele (72 pages).
• Includes fun camping-themed photos & illustrations, history of the uke, and chord chart.
• Brief playing instructions for the soprano uke are given.
• Perfect for around the campfire, or for any group sing-along!

Customer Reviews

Classic tunes -- a great book for the advanced beginner!
Wondering where to go after you've mastered a few chords on your uke? This is a great second book for the aspiring ukulele player. Many of the tunes are familiar (On Top of Old Smokey/Spaghetti -- your choice, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Waltzing Matilda, Kumbahyah, and more), and are relatively easy to play. Like Jim Beloff's other uke books, it is filled with humor, solid tips, and trivia.

Good songs; could use spiral bound & strumming recommendations
Good array of songs and novel anecdotes about camping.
Would have been nice if it were offered as spiral bound so that the book would lay flat, especially since it was used around the camp fire without music stands.
Doesn't give strumming recommendations. However, Jumpin' Jim's books don't tend to give this info.

Great Arrangements!
All of Jumpin' Jim's arrangements sound great and are accessible for an intermediate player. This is a good selection of songs that are fun to sing by the campfire. I like that the book includes a fairly comprehensive list of ukelele chords at the beginning of the book. If I need to transpose a song, any unfamiliar chords are right there to look up. He does a particularly good job of choosing keys that are in a normal singing range with chords that aren't overly complicated.