Ukulele Magic Tutor Book 1 (Teacher's Edition)

Media Type: Book and CD-ROM Media/Arrangement: Classroom Publisher: Collins Music Order Code: 9781408157299

Product Description

Ukulele Magic is the perfect tutor for children and for teachers. Rock to ragtime, bluegrass to swing, tango, calypso and the blues - they're all here in instantly accessible songs to play straight away ~ whether solo, withfriends, or with the whole class.

Fully supported by video tutorials and audio performances and backings. Ukulele Magic is the perfect tutor for children and for teachers. Rock to ragtime, bluegrass to swing, tango, calypsoand the blues - they're all here in instantly accessible songs to play straight away ~ whether solo, with friends, or with the whole class. Fully supported by video tutorials and audio performances and backings. Theteacher'sedition, BOOK+CD-ROM, contains a whiteboard e-book with embedded audio and video tutorials for every song, making it ideal for classroom teaching.

The 25 pieces carefully progress from playing open strings (egStringalong 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 andstrumming styles are all introduced step by step in pieces which are fun and stylistic.

This is a thorough musical introduction to an immensely popular instrument, opening the way to independent music-making for all.Website extras for teachers include lesson plans with teaching support and extra song suggestions to sing and play.