Del Rey: Blue Uke: Ukulele: Instrumental Tutor

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.

Toddlers and young children love to sing and dance classic nursery rhymes and songs. This activity strengthens bonds with family, encourages brain development and musicality, and most importantly, it's fun! This beautiful keepsake collection of over 100 classic nursery rhymes, playground songs, activity tunes, and memory rhymes ensures that all those bases are covered for parents, teachers, and their kids. Carefully arranged for piano to play and sing with toddlers and young children, each song also includes guitar and ukulele chords for easy strum-and-sing performance. The book features a 'Genre Index' that breaks the titles down into song types and categories---especially useful for educators. Finally, an 'About the Songs' section rounds out the collection with a brief history of all the tunes, and, to demonstrate what the songs should sound like, professional MP3 recordings of every song can be downloaded from alfred.com with purchase. / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)