(Part 3) Best songbooks according to redditors

Ukulele Hunt and Got a Ukulele are classics and wonderful combinations of interesting articles and wonderful tabs/chords!

This blog is in French I think but is pretty good.
You should be able to navigate decently because the songs and page names are all in English as far as I can tell. UkeCafe


A lot of cool video game and movie themes! This guy doesn't update as often as I would like, but you can't rush quality :)
Uke of Carl


Pretty decent.
Not a whole lot of tabs but the ones that are there are pretty good in my opinion.
I'm just a little salty because I wanted a solo version of The Man Who Sold the World but it is written for a group and I can't be bothered to fix it for solo players ;_; Also in French.
Ukulele boudoir

GREAT tabs, but the site is down so you have to use the internet archive. I like pretty much all of their arrangements and they are all pretty simple and newbie friendly. I particularly like their version of Over the Rainbow :) [CRAZY DAWG]
(http://web.archive.org/web/20160315002317/http://home.arcor.de/crazydawg/tabs.html)

These are no joke. Most of them are tough and should only be attempted when you have either decent skill or a lot of time to refine their pieces. Make sure you check at the top of every tab to see the way they tuned their uke, because some of it is low g. It technically is the same note, but the deeper sound makes a world of difference. [Ukulele Review]
(https://www.theukulelereview.com/sheet-music-for-instrumental-ukulele/)

A large variety of tabs with pretty good quality all around! [Dominator]
(http://dominator.ukeland.com/index2.shtml)

There are a lot of guitar tabs on this French blog (What's up with the French and ukuleles? Maybe French sites are just easier to find or something) but there are few really good ukulele tabs if you do some digging. Unique ones that I haven't found tabs for anywhere else. [Descordes et Dubois]
(https://descordesetdubois.wordpress.com/)


A great way to find more tab resources. I haven't visited all of these yet, but they all seem pretty decent. [Uke Nut] (http://ukenut.com/fingerstyle-ukulele-resources/)


A lot of good video game tabs. They also have general/anime tabs in a small selection at the bottom-- I really like their version of FullMetal Alchemist's Brothers. Shadowflare's

A good blog that you can squeeze a few nice tabs out of! :) Gordon Lustig


I'm just gonna put these two together because I have nothing to say besides they are good and have tabs. That's not disparaging their quality, but more my lack of variety! Uke Fever and Live Ukulele

Ten Thumbs is a channel that caters to players of all skill levels, but if I were you I'd focus on the chord melodies (they're divine). Check out Colin Tribe too! His tabs are a little too pricy for my blood, but if you find one you like you can email him and he'll give you one free. He has a treasure trove of hot hot tabs that all are exquisitely beautiful (if not a touch difficult). Cynthia Lin has a lot of great tutorials as well. If she is a bit slow for you (great if you're just learning, but bad if you just want some steamy new tabs), you can opt to download her sheet music in her video descriptions. They are usually great combinations of fingerpicking and strumming, and she's a stellar choice for getting your toes wet in the world of tabs.

Last but certainly not least is this collection of gems I scrounged out of a Taiwanese youtube account! They are a little more difficult, but if you simplify it a bit, they way they use chords and the gorgeous finger picking can teach you a lot about how to improve your playing. The tabs and the youtube channel

I hope these resources keep you busy for a while :)

I'd also recommend grabbing a book on amazon. The Beatles for fingerstyle ukulele is a good one I have enjoyed, and I've only heard wonderful things about this Studio Ghibli book, though it is tragically out of my price range :)

https://www.amazon.com/Mes-arrangements-lamiable-French/dp/B000ZGDTAC

If you like Chopin (playing ballade in g minor? :-) this could be interesting for you:
https://www.amazon.com/Studio-Ghibli-Chopin-Advanced-difficult/dp/4636840011

You can hear the full album on youtube, too.

EDIT: Browse on this website, they publish most of Ghibli piano sheets:

http://www.wasabisheetmusic.com/product-list/96

This is the one I have although I got mine from one of the Japanese sellers on ebay:

https://www.amazon.com/Band-Score-Love-Live-Best/dp/4773237716

It contains:

Bokura no LIVE kimi to no LIFE

Snow halation

Natsuiro Egao de 1,2,Jump!

Wonderful Rush

Bokura wa Ima no naka de

Kitto seisyun ga kikoeru

Susume -> Tomorrow

START:DASH!!

Korekara no Someday

Wonder zone

No brand girls

Music S.T.A.R.T!!


There is another one for the second season also.

If you google "Band Score Love Live! Best Score" you should be able to find some images of what the score looks like. The band score is pretty exact (unlike a lot of western scores for pop music) and contains each part (including even the drum parts).

Here

And

Here

BTW here at Amazon JP

It's on the Official Band score for the BABYMETAL album, they sell it on ASmart, CDJapan, or Amazon.jp.

Here it is shown in a video

And it's also included on the Official Live Band Score: on ASmart, CDJapan, and on Amazon.jp

And for good measure, this is the Metal Resistance one: ASmart, CDJapan, Amazon.jp.

For Swing, look to Mingus. Nothing swings harder than Mingus.

For Latin, try out some Keith Jerrett or Antônio Carlos Jobim. You have until September, so pick up The Latin Bass Book and get to work.

For bonus points, if this is a jazz school, try scrapping your regular 12 bar blues and play some bird blues.

Non-mobile: http://www.amazon.com/dp/481088449X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/187-1810805-7986156

^That's ^why ^I'm ^here, ^I ^don't ^judge ^you. ^PM ^/u/xl0 ^if ^I'm ^causing ^any ^trouble. ^WUT?

There are books full of these. Philip Norris has the "Top 50" book, which is pretty applicable. I've only had to pull a few excerpts from other sources, for the auditions I've done, and they were all readily available.

Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/Top-Orchestral-Audition-Excerpts-Trumpet/dp/B002QKVVN2

Fellow guitarist here. Thanks for the site links. Only checked out chords of μ's songs so far, haven't tried playing Aqours songs yet. Cyaron songs looks fun, and playing some guilty kiss songs on electric guitar would be awesome!

On a related note, like mentioned, another good source for transcriptions of LL! songs are the official score books. Currently though, I think only μ's has some.

Here's one, it's a book with full scores available in amazon JP.

Bought it awhile back, it's detailed but you got everything you need there.

I picked up the score book on Amazon. It shipped from Japan and I had it within a few weeks.

COWBOY BEBOP BEST SCORE　(BAND SCORE) https://www.amazon.com/dp/4773229292/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_foBtub075WETM

I actually just purchased these two:
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/4285124823/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/4111790178/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Unfortunately the shipping has been a little slow so I can't offer a review yet.

At least a handful of lessons. If your school has an orchestra program, ask that teacher if they could give you a few-even if they weren't a bass major, they will be a better start than going without any type of instruction.


As far as books,Simandl is one of the main schools of playing. I started with Simandl and then supplemented it with the Michael Moore Bass Method. The catch, I studied each of those under the guidance of a bass teacher. Initially in high school (I was in the band program, took lessons from the middle school orchestra teacher-an actual bassist), and then in college. From there, it was a hodge podge of others when my teacher deemed them appropriate ranging from Petracci to Ray Brown.

So I have spent the last month researching this exact subject! I have been reading every bit of info I could find on Fugue subjects, and analyzing more than I'd like to admit. Before I continue, I highly recommend buying a used copy of Counterpoint in the Style of J. S. Bach and read the first chapter, the chapter on inventions, and the chapter on fugue subjects, answers, and C.M.s

Anyhow, I'll share a couple of the most important things I found (Disclaimer: this is my own research, take this merely as an opinion)

1. Rhythmically, anything goes. You'll find just as many rhythmic patterns that attempt to build up motion (going from long notes to short notes), as you'll find subjects that are the opposite, or have almost no rhythmic variety.
   
   
2. Rhythmically varied subjects will often have the simplest implied harmonies. Rhythmically steady subjects will often be the most chromatic (secondary dominants). This appears to come down to tension.
   
   
3. The counter motive is pretty much always counter to the main subject in rhythm, note values, etc. The interplay of two very different, yet complimentary lines is what makes the fugue so fun. Also, it is nearly always invertible.
   
   
4. Fugue subjects of the baroque era largely use non harmonic tones in the most "textbook" (our textbooks today I mean, because they are written based off this old music) way. Nearly always prepared/resolved as expected, nearly always on an off beat, etc. Obviously there are a lot of exceptions to this rule, but you'll be amazed at how easy it makes analyzing subjects.
   
   4.5) This means most subjects are just outlining the harmonic formulae, but ornamented with smooth use of non harmonic tones.
   
   
5. The majority of subjects in the baroque area follow simple harmonic formulae. I V I. I IV V I. I ii6 IV V I, etc etc.
   
   
6. The implied high and low notes of a melody are nearly always going to be the dominant, the tonic, or the mediant. These will often have some sort of ornamentation that goes seems to break this (very often a neighbor note), but if you simplify and remove these obvious ornamentations, you will find it is nearly always one of those.
   
   
7. Tendency tones nearly always follow their... tendency!
   
   
8. Most subjects start on the tonic or dominant, and end on the mediant, tonic, or dominant, sometimes the 7th, rarely the 2nd, 4th, or 6th.
   
   Finally: the most important thing I learned
   
   
9. Even the greatest Fugue subjects played alone often sound... meh. And this is one thing I fought for so long. You can turn just about any melody that outlines I V I into an absolutely gorgeous fugue. Nobody is going to sing the subject from Bach's Fugue #6 from WTC book 1, and yet it turns into one of my absolute favorite fugues merely through it's use and development. Hell, Vincent Lo turned the Nokia Ringtone into a Fugue (yes, I know the nokia ringtone is based off a valse by Francisco Tarrega).
   
   So uhh... good luck! I write at least one new melody every single day as practice. 99% of them suck, but I get better every day. You should do the same :)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/481088449X/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/187-1810805-7986156 ? We saw it in Seattle, the encyclopedia was 2x the cost in person versus Amazon. Still got it in person though :-)

No arguing here! :P Sorry, I linked the wrong one (that's what I get for grabbing the first link I saw in my browser history)
https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-XIV-Soundtrack-Collection/dp/4906976824?ie=UTF8&refRID=1SQY7AQ76N2PPNX32FRG&ref_=pd_cp_14_1
Just in case you're interested in the other songs!

• Modus Vetus
  
• Dandelot - for clef reading
  
• Dannhauser

"TOP 50" Orchestral audition excerpts for trumpet, compiled and edited by Philip Norris.

https://www.amazon.com/Top-Orchestral-Audition-Excerpts-Trumpet/dp/B002QKVVN2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496192838&sr=8-1&keywords=top+50+orchestral+audition+excerpts

It's an expensive book. Especially with our Canadian dollar.

While people are giving good suggestions, they're posting links to sites that overcharge. Unless you have reasons to hate Amazon, Amazon Japan sells pretty much everything that's been mentioned with zero markup and very low shipping costs.

For example, the one from japancoolbooks costs only $26.82 on Amazon.jp, shipped to California (it'll arrive in 2-3 days). If you order multiple books at once, you'll save even more.

Japan has a relatively large percentage of population that play the piano well, and from my experience, has more high quality piano arrangements for all sorts of music (including Western pop music) than the US does.

Edit: Added links to some of the books mentioned here:

Studio Ghibli Collection Easy Piano Solo Sheet Music

Joe Hisaishi Piano Collection

Ghibli Best Stories

Chopin de Ghibli

Hayao Mizayaki & Studio Ghibli Best Album

Also, I'm assuming the OP can read kanji or 漢字, since zhulin is a Chinese name. Just search for "上級 宮崎駿 ピアノ", which translates into "advanced hayao miyazaki piano".

Yes as /u/nonnein points out, this is called implied counterpoint, and Bach was a true master of this and uses it in almost every piece. Listen to the Chaconne from the 2nd Violin partita for an absolute tour-de-force of this. If you know a little bit of music theory, then there's a great book Counterpoint in the Style of J.S. Bach by Thomas Benjamin that will give you some insight into it.

As to actually how Bach's mind worked, I think it's pretty hard for us mere mortals to reallllllly get it, but we can try.

Schau dir mal das hier an, kenne ich noch von früher meine Mutter hat das als Kind immer gesungen. Die ist immer noch unter 70, aber bestimmt kennen da auch viele Lieder daraus https://www.amazon.de/Die-Mundorgel-Textausgabe-Dieter-Corbach/dp/3875710436

Die Mundorgel dürfte viele Lieder bieten. Kostet auch nur 3,50€.

Highly recommended:
http://amzn.com/1883217121

what instrument do you play?

Book wise, the two things I could not be without, both for initially learning technique and also revisiting as well are the Whitehouse Scale and Arpeggio Album (UK|US) and then also the Feuillard Daily Exercises (UK|US) (both Schott published).
Record yourself playing and watch it back, don't be afraid to use a metronome and a tuner.

Personally I'm looking in to learning to draw right now, but the approach is very similar for effective learning, focus on technical skills as they are the base to build off. Style is great to develop, but without the technique there to support it you could be building fundamentally poor habits. Things like bow control are honestly easier to understand when being observed, but Scales and Arpeggios will help you understand basic shapes you should form for each key helping you to not fear key signatures with more sharps and flats.

Feuillard is key to building all technical habits. The book is split in to 5 sections so you can focus on one part at a time, and once you've built up your skills can then mix and match exercises from each section to make sure you keep on top of everything. The book helps build a solid left hand, good transitions between hand positions, smoother bow control and for the bolder also working on thumb position technique.

It's imperative you have the cello tuned properly when you play, and from early on be relentless on ensuring you are in tune, so if necessary go very slowly and use a tuner to check each note is right before moving ahead. This will help train your ear to pick out when a note is not only out of tune, but better understand whether you are flat (under) or sharp (over). A good way to mix this would be using a tuner while you approach the first exercises in Feuillard as they focus on smaller shapes such as moving between two close notes. There are a great many free apps out there for smartphones that can help with tuning (personally use insTuner on iOS).

The other side to understand would be rhythm. Again, a good thing to revisit even if you have musical history elsewhere as it never hurts to check. Metronomes are an essential tool for learning in my opinion. When approaching a new piece of music it is best to ignore style initially to focus on accuracy. Once you know the music then you can play with how you want to present it, but until then, keeping a steady and consistent pace is a good habit to build. Again, many great free apps for this, (personally using Metronome by Soundbrenner on iOS). I'd personally recommend focusing on note accuracy before rhythm as a priority to ensure that what you're playing is correct before adding the pressure of time constraints through keeping tempo.

I started learning when I was 6, and for 10 years of learning through teachers my schools had there was a focus only on learning the music for each graded exam and barely any focus on the scales and arpeggios part and worse still no real focus on understanding technique beyond the music I would be examined with. It wasn't until 10 years later, well after finishing the graded system and getting a private teacher that I was completely pulled apart for my lack of technical understanding and foundation. From here I was told I had to get the two books I mentioned at the start and they formed the basis of not only my practice at home, but also each lesson I had with them. I noticed a rapid change in what I could do as a cellist though, seeing sight reading become incredibly more simple having the shapes and sounds already in my head. The movements and habits you build speed up your learning process everywhere else too, so technique always and first.

Lastly, even if you don't pursue a teacher right now, still get others opinions on how you are progressing, even if that means putting a recording of yourself and sharing it with other cellists to receive feedback. I've seen others do that here and until you build enough knowledge to be able to check yourself effectively, it's always good to get another's opinions on where you are at in case you subconsciously have been maybe avoiding improving on one skill or maybe even just need to return to another.

Hope that helps.

EDIT:
If you want a good selection of music to learn alongside technical development, baroque music in general is perfect for that given the way music and harmony was approached during that era of music, but I'd recommend the Bach Six Suites for Cello (Barenreiter BA 320 UK|US).

24 Contemporary Pieces for Solo Piano
Here's the intermediate collection. For easy stuff however, check out Max Richter's Piano Works. it doesn't have the chromaticism of Dustin O'Halloran and doesn't have the trickier rhythms of Philip Glass's Etudes (which by the way I think are wildly pretentious but that's a story for another day)

Richter recently published some of his piano solo works, you might be interested in this:

https://www.amazon.com/Max-Richter-Piano-Works/dp/1783056967

It has that devastating piece from the movie, Arrival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yShmGUlylzA

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1603780432/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/185-4862858-3954812
Buy the sheet music and hire a pianist.

For Upright Bass Technique: Simandl New Method

Also, the best way to learn is to listen to bassists you dig, and transcribe their lines; and then listen and transcribe the bassists they dig, to understand where they got their sound from. Start simple, then move to transcribing more complex stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Hisaishi-Piano-Collection-Scores/dp/4285124823/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Joe+Hisaishi+sheet+music&qid=1571324067&s=books&sr=1-2

https://www.amazon.com/Final-Fantasy-Piano-Collections-Sheet/dp/4636859626/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Masashi+Hamauzu+sheet+music&qid=1571324039&s=books&sr=1-2

https://www.amazon.com/dp/4636908112/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=aeebc627-7ecf-4129-8c0c-1d437f271eca&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=4285124823&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=F7G6YNDVJVSYQ106DZPC&pf_rd_r=F7G6YNDVJVSYQ106DZPC&pf_rd_p=aeebc627-7ecf-4129-8c0c-1d437f271eca
https://www.amazon.com/Cowboy-Bebop-Piano-Score-Kanno/dp/4773229209/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Yoko+Kanno+sheet+music&qid=1571324017&s=books&sr=1-1

C'est pour ça que je te demandais quelle était la finalité mais tu ne réponds pas vraiment ou trop vaguement.

Si tu veux apprendre à lire la musique, tu fais comme tout le monde, tu te manges le Dandelot, qui est la référence pour apprendre à lire.

>afin de pouvoir la changer quand la nécessité se présente (je ne sais pas si c'est clair)

Non, ce n'est pas clair. Tu veux pouvoir transposer ? Si tu n'es pas plus explicite je ne vais pas pouvoir t'aider plus que ça.

I'm a big fan of Patterns for Jazz for day to day exercises. Although the title indicates jazz music, this is a great exercise book for much of the harmony that you see running through rock, blues, jazz, and most popular music.

Another favorite of mine are the Bach Solo Cello Suites. I'd get the cello music rather than any transcriptions for bass. IMHO they all sound beautiful on bass and you'll run the gamut from relatively straightforward to very challenging.

Pretty sure Felicidade is in this: http://www.amazon.com/Mes-arrangements-%C3%A0-lamiable-French/dp/B000ZGDTAC/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1420178791&sr=8-15&keywords=dyens


Tango is it's own score, and the 20 Lettres is here: http://www.amazon.com/Lettres-French-Edition-DYENS-Roland/dp/B000ZGDTSO/ref=pd_cp_b_1

EDIT: Yep Felicidade is in the Mes arrangements book. Along with his arrangement of Nuages and a few others which are amazing.

Apparently its from this

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/490697631X/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

This is the best English equivalent site I found

Check out the Youtube channel jazz2511 and his website http://www.bushgrafts.com

Also highly recommend Luke Gillespie's Stylistic II/V/I Voicings book

Mark Levine's Jazz Piano book is also popularly recommended, as is Randy Halberstadt's Metaphors for the Musician.

I'm a beginner but everyone tells me "tumbao and clave are your best friends, search them" modern merengue/ salsa use more the B string than the old ones for some reason.

Edit: Here's a nice latin bass book, even though I'm a beginner I've been able to follow it, with some struggle because I know almost nothing about music, but following it.

Here is the desktop version of your link

There's an out of print book called Counterpoint in the Style of JS Bach

http://www.amazon.com/Counterpoint-Style-J-S-Thomas-Benjamin/dp/0028702808

I've only worked with the canon chapter out of that one, but it was really really well done - knowledgeable but also well written (kind of a rare combination int theory books ;)

My understanding is that a lot of the content was republished in "The Craft of Tonal Counterpoint" http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Tonal-Counterpoint-Thomas-Benjamin/ (same author)

I haven't used this book yet, so I can't recommend it. But hopefully your will library will have it?