In July I started compiling songs from my Guitar and Ukulele Recital Songbooks to create a Beginning Band Songbook for Ukulele, Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar, and Drum Set. Like the individual Recital Songbooks, it’ meant to teach beginners how to play songs using only a few, easy chords, and also how to play with other people (everybody plays the same chords at the same time), and to learn the difference between “practice” and “rehearsal”. The book itself is still very much a rough draft, but once I smooth out the edges, I’ll be able to post the first 20 songs, so stay tuned.

I added more songs to my Guitar Recital Songbook (23 songs so far) and Ukulele Recital Songbook (50 songs so far). PDFs of the sheet music are now only on the GUITAR RECITAL SONGBOOK and UKULELE RECITAL SONGBOOK pages, and no longer on the regular GUITAR or UKULELE pages.

After creating and posting the tracks for Ukulele Recital Songs 1-5 and Guitar Recital Songs 1-5, I decided that I’m not going to keep making tracks for all of the Recital Songs, but I will make a track if I have a student who wants to perform a specific recital song. Part of this decision was based on the time it takes to produce each track, but it was also because some students had issues with the tempo (100 BpM). As a compromise, I created 48-Measure Song Form Practice Tracks with Drum Set only at 7 different tempos (on the PRACTICE TRACKS page) so that students will still have something to play all of the recital songs along with if they want to.

PDFs of all of these materials can be found under the FOR MY STUDENTS tab, on the GUITAR RECITAL SONGBOOK, UKULELE RECITAL SONGBOOK, DRUM SET, and PRACTICE TRACKS pages. As always, please let me know if you use any of these teaching materials with your students, and if you find them helpful, or if you have any questions or comments.