Blues Rags and Jazzy Tunes-We're in the midst of a ukulele renaissance and this wonderful little instrument's role has been expanding to include a wide variety of musical genres. In the hands of the amazing Del Rey it becomes a veritable blues and ragtime music machine! This informative and entertaining DVD will teach you a myriad of fingerpicking and chording techniques. Del takes a guitar player's approach to the instrument using her three fingers to get a syncopated melody and harmony lines against a steady thumb beat. She teaches you how to play cool riffs turnarounds blues songs and up-beat dance tunes. Tuning her uke to open C (G-C-E-A) she starts off with bluesscales and right hand exercises to coordinate your picking and fretting hands. Then it's right into five fabulous pieces in a variety of keys: Goin' Up the Country; Run and Tell Your Daddy Lord; Keep it Clean; Dance Hall Shuffle and Brown's Blues.

The Ukulele From The Beginning - Pop Songs (Blue Book) is a great collection of 16 favourite pop songs specially chosen and arranged for primary school-age and early secondary school-age children.Thesongs are simplified and annotated with easy chord symbols strumming and picking patterns. This is a truly accessible pop songbook combing a great deal of contemporary repertoire with a selection of true pop classics.This book is a 'sister' publication to the Ukulele From The Beginning - Pop Songs (Red Book).

20 classics arranged to sound great on the uke, including: Across the Universe · Best of My Love · Cat's in the Cradle · Cecilia · Into the Mystic · Jack and Diane · Night Moves · Operator (That's Not the Way It Feels) · Tangled up in Blue · Time for Me to Fly · Who'll Stop the Rain · Wish You Were Here · and more.

Swingin\' Jazz Ukulele is designed for your total enjoyment. Each song is arranged in a fun and lively way with a strum-and-sing approach. The chords are simple, yet entirely appropriate to the jazz-age style of the \'20s and \'30s. We\'ve also included classic intros, endings, and turnarounds that will make you sound like an authentic early jazzer. Titles: Ain\'t Misbehavin\' * Ain\'t She Sweet * As Time Goes By * Bye Bye Blackbird * Dream a Little Dream of Me * Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue * I\'ll See You in My Dreams * It Don\'t Mean a Thing (If It Ain\'t Got That Swing) * It Had to Be You * Makin\' Whoopee * Sweet Georgia Brown * Tonight You Belong to Me. / Instrumental Music, Methods

Ukulele Play-Along Volume 19-This volume of the Ukulele Play-Along series features 8 traditional Blues tunes each expertly arranged for Ukulele in standard notation.The Ukulele Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the written music listen to the CD to hear how the ukulele should sound and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac & PC users canadjust the recording to any tempo without changing the pitch! Each Ukulele Play-Along pack features eight cream-of-the-crop quintessential songs.Songs include: Dust My Broom • Every Day I Have the Blues • How Long How Long Blues • It Hurts Me Too • and more!

Blues Ukulele is a collection of 16 blues standards arranged for the ukulele by Fred Sokolow. Each song comes with two arrangements: The first one gives you lyrics melody and uke chord grids to strum while singing. The second is a uke chord/melody tab arrangement so you can play the song's melody and chords simultaneously with a lot of blues licks thrown in. Includes a CD with arrangements of each song played and sung by Fred Sokolow.

Besides learning great songs by the likes of Big Bill Broonzy, Blind Blake, Bessie Smith, Memphis Minnie and Henry Thomas, you'll learn licks, scales,turnarounds and techniques that'll enable you to jam with other players and ad-lib, blues-style. There's even a lesson on bottleneck/slide uke. / Ukulélé

Instrument/Discipline : Ukulele Style/Genre : Pop/Rock Support : Livre The latest in the popular Ukulele Playlist series: over 30 classic songs to strum and sing, specially arranged for the ukulele! Includes full lyrics, strumming patterns and ukulele chord diagrams. All Along The Watchtower (Bob Dylan) Angels (Robbie Williams) Blue Moon (Elvis Presley) Bright Eyes (Art Garfunkel) Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie Minogue) Coffee & TV (Blur) Cum On Feel The Noize (Slade) Don’t You Want Me (Human League) Down Under (Men At Work) Everybody Needs Somebody To Love (Blues Brothers) Faith (George Michael) Great Balls Of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis) Greatest Day (Take That) Higher Ground (Red Hot Chili Peppers) I Don’t Wanna Dance (Eddy Grant) I’m Yours (Jason Mraz) (Is This The Way To) Amarillo (Tony Christie) Islands In The Stream (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers) Jenny Don’t Be Hasty (Paolo Nutini) Living Doll (Cliff Richard) Material Girl (Madonna) My Baby Just Cares For Me (Nina Simone) Perfect Day (Lou Reed) Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Burt Bacharach) Sex And Drugs And Rock And Roll (Ian Dury & The Blockheads) Smooth Criminal (Michael Jackson) Sound Of The Underground (Girls Aloud) Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette) Tainted Love (Soft Cell) These Boots Are Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra) Tragedy (The Bee Gees) Waterloo (ABBA) YMCA (Village People) You Can’t Hurry Love (The Supremes)

Ukulele Play-Along Volume 24-The Ukulele Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the written music listen to the CD to hear how the Ukulele should sound and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are included in the book in case you want to sing or to simply help you follow along. The CD is playable on any CD player and also enhanced so Mac

66 Island Favorites-The Island Songs Ukulele Chord Songbook comes in convenient 6 x 9 format with complete lyrics and chord symbols above the lyrics for dozens of tropical beach songs.Each song also includes chord grids at the top of every page and the first notes of the melody for easy reference. These books are perfect for people who don't read music but want to strum chords and sing and are equally ideal for more advanced music-reading ukulele players who don't feel like wading through note-for-note notation.This collection features 66 island favorites: Blue Hawaii • Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) • Don't Worry Be Happy • Island Girl •It's Five O'Clock Somewhere • Kokomo • Lovely Hula Girl • Mele Kalikimaka • No Woman No Cry • One Paddle Two Paddle • Red Red Wine • Surfer Girl • Tiny Bubbles • Ukulele Lady • and many more.

The Ukulele From The Beginning Pop Songbook (Red Book) is a great collection of 16 favourite pop songs specially chosen and arranged for younger players (primary to early secondary school-age). The songsare simplified and annotated with easy chord symbols strumming and picking patterns. This is a truly accessible pop songbook combing a great deal of contemporary repertoire with a selection of classic pop songs. Thisbook is a 'sister' publication to the Ukulele From The Beginning - Pop Songbook (Blue Book).

Bob Dylan for Ukulele. 23 top hits from folk-rock icon Bob Dylan arranged for the ukulele: All Along the Watchtower · All I Really Want to Do · Blowin' in the Wind · Don't Think Twice, It's All Right · Forever Young · I Feel a Change Comin' On · I Want You · I'll Be Your Baby Tonight · It Ain't Me, Babe · It's All Over Now Baby Blue · Knockin' on Heaven's Door · Lay, Lady, Lay · Like a Rolling Stone · Maggie's Farm · Mr. Tambourine Man · Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) · Rainy Day Women #12

With Online Audio and Video-This book provides an easy and fun way to learn the Ukulele! Based on C tuning You Can Teach Yourself Uke presents strum/sing-alongs in the keys of C G D F and B flat. The online video and audio trackswill teach you in a step-by-step manner while providing hours of fun and enjoyment. The book contains 58 great all-time favourites for the Ukulele including Alexander's Ragtime Band Aloha Oe   Go Tell It OnThe Mountain The Blue Bells Of Scotland Peg O' My Heart and Fascination. This book is suitable for use with Soprano Ukuleles.

15 Great Performances Transcribed Note-for-Note-15 great performances transcribed note for note for Ukulele. Songs include; Hotel California Misty In My Life Stars And Stripes Forever When I'm Cleaning Windows William Tell Overture and Blue Hawaii.