Ukulele Magic Tutor Book 1

Ian Lawrence is a teacher, musician and composer with longstanding experience of teaching music in primary schools. His Wider Opportunities ukulele classes and clubs in South London primary schools are inspiring and inclusive, bringing together not just ukulele students but instrumentalists of all kinds, creating truly musical experiences which promote independent learning as well as invaluable ensemble opportunities.

This is a tutor book that will teach you how to play the ukulele in all itsforms – introducing you to more than just strumming three chords. Mostukulele books have a selection of songs with chords. This is fine if that'sall you want to do. However, there reaches a stage when you want more thanjust chords and this book will fill in the gaps and launch you into a seriesof well structured 'lessons' that introduce you to finger picking, tab andallowing you to improvise in a range of styles. This book does not launchstraight into chords as most ukulele books do but gently eases you intoplaying single notes with advice for dampening the strings – technicaladvice etc. I like it!,Ukulele Magic is the book we've been waiting for to help us deliver whole-class ukulele tuition in Lewisham schools. The pace is right, the video clips are extremely helpful, the design is clear and the music is catchy and written in an interesting variety of styles.,I'm very impressed with it, as are the children and teachers I'm working with. It makes a massive difference to have such a rich, well-presented resource as the e-book version, which I use in every lesson. It's been a massive help to have a book targeted at wider opps teaching and has definitely improved my ukulele delivery.,I use it for my small groups. Other teachers in Lewisham use it for wider opps. Everyone I have spoken to about it loves it.