The Uke Buke: Learn to Play Slack Key Style `Ukulele

No matter if you are a dedicated beginner wanting to expand your playing or an advanced uke-a-banger looking for a new challenge, you will find music to delight your fingers and stimulate your ear. The Uke Buke is both a course of study and a collection of great solo arrangements that start out easy and increase in difficulty. If you love playing the `ukulele you will love The Uke Buke.

It is no secret that the Hawaiians fell in love with the ukulele the first time they heard it. Within just a few short years after three Portuguese immigrants brought the modest little instrument on that long sea voyage, Hawaiian musicians took the world by storm.

No trade exposition, Vaudeville review or whistle stop concert tour was complete without a bevy of exotic hula maidens swaying to the tropical sounds of the steel guitar and ukulele.

Why, Hawaiian music without an ukulele is almost unthinkable!

Here is a collection of classic Hawaiian melodies arranged for solo ukulele “slack key” style. Whats that? Slack Key–Ki Hoalu–is a melodic, finger picked guitar style created by Hawaiian paniolo in the mid-19th Century. They call it “Hawaiian soul music.”

It is only natural that some ukulele players in Hawaii would re-tune their instruments and play slack key style. Nothing sounds so sweet.

So grab you ukulele and put some aloha in your playing!

• Tablature and standard notation
• Notes on the tunings, reading music and reading TAB
• Guided lessons help you develop your style
• Graded arrangements from easy to advanced
• Over 30 great arrangements
• Learn how to create your own slack key style arrangements of classic Hawaiian songs
• Playable on any ‘ukulele with a low G string

Paperback, 88 pages. $20.00 © 2010 acme arts.

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