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Download your FREE beginner's book here. This is a very simple beginner's ukulele book to give you the very basis to learn before you come to a FUN session.  How to choose, hold, tune and learn to play your uke easily.  You don't have to learn complicated musical notation just follow the dots in the boxes.  There's a history of the uke and some easy songs.  Let us know what you think! 

COUSTII A web site full of great things for beginners and accomplished players. Link

UKEGEEKS An amazing resource!  To change the format of a song from Chordpro where the chords are like this [G] to plain standard two line chord/text format  I sometimes use  the free Ukegeeks online page here http://ukegeeks.com/songeditor .  This is a fantastic resource which can add the chord boxes change the style and colour of your song sheets.  You change change things around by using the tabs at the top of the screen.  It will also transpose your songs.

CHORDSMITH  You can download Chordsmith software from here  .  This will convert your chords to and from [Chordpro] with or without brackets and transpose your songs.  It is free but you can make a donation if you find it useful.

CHORDETTE CHORD BOX FONT You can easily put those chord boxes on your song sheets.  This is another free download but please make a donation if you find it useful.  It works as a font in your font collection.  Lots lots more on this web site.

TAB TRANSPOSER For transposing songs try Tab Transposer .  This will not only change your chords but colour them blue and make them bold but will show the chord boxes at the top.  Just change the setting from guitar to ukulele.  An excellent resource.

FREE APPS FOR YOUR PHONE OR TABLET!

I have a couple of apps on my tablet that I have found very useful.  You import your songsheets as PDFs and you can create set lists with them.  Bring each song up from the list by swiping across, they come up in the order you saved them.  Not only that you can put notes on the screen with your finger and save them.  Very nifty!  Both are free from the App Store on iPad.  Songbook Lite and Goplay. 

Then there are other resources such as Songsheet Generator http://www.tenbyten.com/software/songsgen/index.php which  is very simillar to Onsong will create a chordpro .txt file. You can print off your songsheets or display them on a screen.  Then there is a free ap Songbook for tablets http://linkesoft.com/songbook/ which can use the files you have created with Songsheet Generator.  This ap is great for displaying your songs which you can change the key while you are performing.  You can change the appearance of the songs and it will even scroll whilst you are singing!