Ukulele Magic
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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.
Start your musical journey on the ukulele with Ukulele Magic Tutor Book 1 – the fun and approachable method that children and teachers love. Whether you’re in the classroom, at home or playing with friends, this accessible tutor offers the great tunes, clear guidance and all the resources you need to start making Ukulele Magic!
- 25 pieces carefully progress from playing open strings (eg Stringalong Rag) to songs with one chord (Shortnin bread, A minor miracle, F major march) to two chords (Baboushka, Tab tango, Calypso strum) and finally three chords (In South Africa, Playing the blues).
- Finger-picking and strumming styles are all introduced step by step in pieces which are fun and stylistic.
- This teacher's edition, BOOK+CD-ROM, contains a whiteboard e-book with embedded audio and video tutorials for every song, making it ideal for classroom teaching.
Continue your musical journey on the ukulele with More Ukulele Magic: Tutor Book 2 - the fun and approachable method that children and teachers love. Whether you're in the classroom, at home or playing with friends, this accessible tutor offers the great tunes, clear guidance and all the resources you need to make Ukulele Magic!
Fully supported with audio performances and backings, this second book builds on the learning in Book 1 with new chords, scales, finger-picking and strumming patterns as well as opportunities for composing, improvising and ensemble playing across a wide variety of musical styles. Lead sheets and TAB are available online to download and print.
The teacher's edition (ISBN 978-0-00-839471-4) includes a downloadable whiteboard e-book with embedded audio and video demos, making it ideal for whole-class teaching.
Continue your musical journey on the ukulele with More Ukulele Magic: Tutor Book 2 - the fun and approachable method that children and teachers love. Whether you're in the classroom, at home or playing with friends, this accessible tutor offers the great tunes, clear guidance and all the resources you need to make Ukulele Magic!
Fully supported with audio performances and backings, this second book builds on the learning in Book 1 with new chords, scales, finger-picking and strumming patterns as well as opportunities for composing, improvising and ensemble playing across a wide variety of musical styles. Lead sheets and TAB are available online to download and print.
This teacher's edition includes a downloadable whiteboard e-book with embedded audio and video demos, making it ideal for whole-class teaching.
This songbook will get you singing and strumming from the very first lesson, with tunes that you'll really want to play. Starting with just the open strings, and progressing at a steady pace to more challenging pieces with several chords and chord changes, you'll soon be playing your ukulele in all sorts of styles.
Ideal to use with Ukulele Magic Tutor Book 1 or any other ukulele tutor book, this book gives you plenty of songs to make sure you keep playing as you learn.