Contents. About the DVD

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1 ntents Selecting Yur Ukulele... he Parts f Yur Ukulele...4 Hw t Hld Yur Ukulele...5 Standing...5 Sitting...5 he Right Hand: Strumming the Strings...6 Strumming with a Pick...6 Strumming with Yur Fingers...6 Using Yur Left Hand...7 Hand Psitin...7 Placing a Finger n a String...7 Hw t une Yur Ukulele...8 uning with the r V...9 uning the Ukulele t Itself...9 Pitch Pipes and Electrnic uners...9 etting Acquainted with Music... he Staff... Measures... lefs... Reading AB... hrd iagrams... he First String A... Playing with A, B, and... Extra redit... Sund-ff: Hw t unt ime Kinds f Ntes...4 ime Signatures...4 Repeat Signs...5 st String Blues...5 he Secnd String E...6 Jammin n w Strings...6 Ht rss Buns...7 Blues in...8 Rckin Uke...9 he hird String... Jammin n hree Strings... Larg... Jingle Bells... Beautiful Brwn Eyes... Intrducing B-Flat...4 Aura Lee...4 hree-string Bgie...5 emp Signs...6 hree-emp Rckin Uke...6 Quarter Rest...6 he 7 hrd...7 he F hrd...8 d Night Ladies...9 Key Signatures... ies... wn in the Valley... de t Jy... he hrd... Incmplete Measures...4 A-isket, A-asket...4 Eighth Ntes...5 Jammin with Eighth Ntes...5 tted Quarter Ntes...6 ckels and Mussells...6 lementine...8 he 7 hrd...4 Alha e...4 When the Saints Marching In...4 Lve Smebdy...4 he Streets f Lared...44 he wn-and-up Strke...45 he hrd...46 he 7 hrd...46 alyps Strum...47 Intrducing F-Sharp he Slp Jhn B...48 Abut the V he V cntains valuable demnstratins f all the instructinal material in the bk. Yu will get the best results by fllwing alng with yur bk as yu watch these vide segments. Musical examples that are nt perfrmed with vide are included as audi tracks n the V fr listening and playing alng. he track numbers in the bk refer t the MP audi tracks fund n the V-RM. hese tracks are accessed by placing the disc in yur cmputer. Windws users, frm yur Start menu, pen My mputer, right-click n yur V drive icn, and pen the MP flder. Mac users, duble click n the V icn n yur desktp, then duble-click n the MP flder.

2 Using Yur Left Hand Hand Psitin Learning t use yur left-hand fingers easily starts with a gd hand psitin. Place yur hand s yur thumb rests cmfrtably in the middle f the back f the neck. Psitin yur fingers n the frnt f the neck as if yu are gently squeezing a ball between them and yur thumb. Keep yur elbw in and yur fingers curved. Keep elbw in and fingers curved. Like gently squeezing a ball between yur fingers and thumb. Finger numbers. Placing a Finger n a String When yu press a string with a left-hand finger, make sure yu press firmly with the tip f yur finger and as clse t the fret wire as yu can withut actually being right n it. Shrt fingernails are imprtant! his will create a clean, bright tne. RIH Finger pressing the string dwn near the fret withut actually being n it. WRN Finger is t far frm fret wire; tne is buzzy and indefinite. WRN Finger is n tp f fret wire; tne is muffled and unclear.

3 he hird String rack PEN SRIN nd FRE w w FRE FRE 4 œ œ FRE Jammin n hree Strings rack EAHER: 4 7 F A B œ œ œ œ 7

4 he wn-and-up Strke rack 5 45 Yu can make yur accmpaniment f waltz sngs in like he Streets f Lared mre interesting by replacing the secnd beat f the measure with a dwn-strke fllwed by an up-strke. gether, the dwn-and-up strkes are played in the same time as a regular strum. ry the fllwing exercise t wrk n just the rhythm. 4 UN: Nw practice changing frm t UN: Nw practice changing back and frth frm t 7 and back. When yu can d it smthly, g back t page 44 and use it t accmpany he Streets f Lared UN:

5 46 he hrd rack 5 Place yur st, nd, and rd fingers in psitin, then play ne string at a time. Play all fur strings tgether: = hrd he 7 hrd rack 54 7 Place yur st and nd fingers in psitin, then play ne string at a time. Play all fur strings tgether: = 7 hrd