Ukulele Magic Tutor Book 1
Published on 29. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-4729-2918-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ukulele Magic gives you the perfect start to playing the ukulele. With clear instructions and fingering diagrams, accessible pieces, and tips on improving your technique, this tutor book will get you singing and strumming with confidence.
Ukulele Magic gives you the perfect start to playing the ukulele. With clear instructions and fingering diagrams, accessible pieces, and tips on improving your technique, this tutor book will get you singing and strumming with confidence.
The book is carefully paced, with new chords and strumming techniques introduced one at a time, and plenty of music for you to practise what you have learned. Soon you'll be playing and singing the blues, learning your hand position with a finger number rumba, or strumming along to a carnival calypso.
Includes a CD of performances and backing tracks of all the songs in the book, to guide your playing and help you create a stylish performance.
Ukulele Magic gives you the perfect start to playing the ukulele. With clear instructions and fingering diagrams, accessible pieces, and tips on improving your technique, this tutor book will get you singing and strumming with confidence.
The book is carefully paced, with new chords and strumming techniques introduced one at a time, and plenty of music for you to practise what you have learned. Soon you'll be playing and singing the blues, learning your hand position with a finger number rumba, or strumming along to a carnival calypso.
Includes a CD of performances and backing tracks of all the songs in the book, to guide your playing and help you create a stylish performance.
Reviews / Votes
Ukulele Magic is the book we've been waiting for to help us deliver whole-class ukulele tuition in Lewisham schools. The pace is right, the video clips are extremely helpful, the design is clear and the music is catchy and written in an interesting variety of styles.More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 255 mm
Weight
270 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-2918-1 (9781472929181)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Unit 1: Meet my ukulele Parts of the ukulele The correct playing position The thumb brush strum The thumb rest stroke The open strings Singing and playing alternately Unit 2: Opening it up The free stroke The first finger up and down strokes The shuffle strum Banjo finger style Accompaniments Unit 3: Our first chord The left hand finger numbers The C major chord Accompanying a familiar song with a chord Making up strumming patterns An American banjo style pattern Unit 4: A minor miracle The A minor chord Damping the strings The tremolo strum Developing accompaniments Repeated strumming patterns Unit 5: All change The F major chord Echo songs Moving between C7 and F major chords The calypso strum Singing and playing at the same time Unit 6: Three chord tricks The G7 chord The swing shuffle strum The 12-bar blues chord sequence The blue scale and blues improvisation Playing a three chord sequence Developing a group arrangement Moving between A minor and F major chords