Preece Music

This is a collection of 24 famous Christmas carols and traditional seasonal songs arranged for ukulele. As carols are intended for singing, rather than for playing, this collection focuses on using the ukulele as an accompaniment instrument. Each carol is presented over a double page, with the full lyrics and chords being shown on the left, and the melody shown in traditional notation and ukulele tablature on the right. The idea is that while you could use this as the basis of a solo instrumental performance, carols are really for strumming and singing!

The carols have been specially arranged for ukulele, simplifying the often complex traditional chord structures to make them easy to play on a strummed instrument, and in keys that are both easy to sing and easy to play. The book also includes a lesson on strumming in unfamiliar key signatures, as many Christmas carols are not in the familiar 4/4.

Videos

I’ve made videos of some of the arrangements from this book, which you can enjoy below. Subscribe to my YouTube channel or my PeerTube channel to see new videos as they get released.

Arrangements In This Book

• Angels From The Realms Of Glory
• Angels We Have Heard On High
• Auld Lang Syne
• Away In A Manger (Cradle Song and Mueller melodies)
• Deck The Halls
• Ding Dong! Merrily On High
• The First Noel
• God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
• Good King Wenceslas
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
• The Holly And The Ivy
• In The Bleak Midwinter
• I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
• Jingle Bells
• Joy To The World
• Oh Come, All Ye Faithful
• Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel
• Oh Holy Night
• Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
• Once In Royal David’s City
• Silent Night
• We Three Kings
• We Wish You A Merry Christmas
• While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks