Ukulele Tunes and Techniques: Hawaiian & American Styles

Taught by Bob Brozman, with Special Guest Ledward Kaapana

You will be amazed at the sounds and musical styles that you can get out of the uke! Bob Brozman jumps right into this fascinating lesson by teaching you a potpourri of strums, rolls, triplets and syncopated fingerpicking patterns, and you'll learn to use these techniques in traditional Hawaiian pieces ("Hi'ilawe," "Tomi Tomi" and "Meleana'E"), and a Tin Pan Alley era song ("The Beach at Waikiki").

Bob shows you how to play blues on the uke with funky chord progressions, turnarounds and down-and-dirty licks. His exciting arrangements of early jazz standards "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "I'll See You in My Dreams" are complete with hot chords and melodic fingerpicking solos.

This lesson will give you an excellent overview of the ukulele's potential for a variety of musical styles, and a renewed enthusiasm for what Bob Brozman calls "this noble little instrument."