101 Ukulele Licks: Ukulele: Instrumental Album

This 92 minute lesson teaches and celebrates the songs of Uke legends players and singers who popularized the instrument and innovators who took it to new musical heights.You'll learn backup and solos to classic tunes (including a few instrumentals) by Cliff Edwards (Singing In the Rain) George Formby (My Ukulele) Johnny Marvin (12th Street Rag) Arthur Godfrey (Making Love Ukulele Style) Ian Whitcomb (The Uke Is On the March) Tiny Tim (Tiptoe Through the Tulips) and Roy Smeck (Music Box Waltz).There are plenty of beautiful chord melody solos along the way as well as stories about Uke'strailblazers. Fred makes it easy to learn with split-screen slowed down versions of the songs and helpful hints about the licks and picking styles.

Strumming chords to back up singing is fun but there's more to the Ukulele than that! If you've seen Jake Shimabukuro or some other contemporary Uke wizards playing amazing instrumentals you know the little 4-string jumpingflea is capable of anything. If you'd like to learn how to play solos (with other people or by yourself) this lesson will show you several approaches to doing just that. You'll learn two moveable blues boxes chord based licks 'Steve Cropper licks ' first position and moveable major scales...and how and when to use them. These soloing ideas work for songs of just about any genre: rock pop blues country RandB you-name-it! Fred takes youthrough all these techniques using diverse musical examples like Jamaica Farewell Corrine Corrina Feeling Alright St. James Infirmary Amazing Grace Careless Love Chilly Winds Louie Louie and more. His easy-goinginstructional style makes it all clear and understandable and all the scales licks and many of the songs are written out in tab and music in the accompanying PDF file/book. Get together with other players and prepare toshred! 80 minutes - Level 3 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD. DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.

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.