29 essential early blues selections for Ukulele made popular by Bessie Smith Louis Armstrong W.C. Handy Jelly Roll Morton Woody Guthrie Leadbelly and other legendary singers bands and instrumentalists past and present. Includes: 'St. Louis Blues' 'Memphis Blues' 'Jazz Me Blues' 'Yellow Dog Blues' 'Aunt Hagar's Blues' 'Worried Man Blues' 'Farewell Garden Blues' and more. Includes access to audio tracks online for download or streaming.

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.