123 Ukulele Play!: 73 songs & 48 lesson plans: a full-year curriculum for ukulele in the classroom - Paperback

by M. Ryan Taylor (Author)

Visit UkulelePlay.com to download audio demo files for all 73 songs in the book.123 Ukulele Play! offers a step-by-step learning program for ukulele using developmental principles one might find in a Kodaly-based program, only with ukulele as a springboard for student enthusiasm. 73 songs are included in the student manual along with 48 lesson plans to help guide you through the process of teaching them. Also included are individual MP3 files for each of the songs, chord charts for the students as well as large chord charts to print and hang up on the walls.After the basics and Christmas units (secular alternates are included for any religious songs), classical masterworks are interspersed with units on New Years Goals, Americana (for President's Day), Irish Dance and finally a trip around the world to various island nations (Japan, Tonga, Australia), ending with Hawaiian songs as a nod to the instrument's birthplace.About the author: M. Ryan Taylor is the author of a number of ukulele books aimed at beginning players, including Two Chord Camp Songs for Ukulele, The Two Chord Companion, Two Chord Christmas Songs, Christmas on 34th Street and more that you can find on UkulelePlay.com. He is a Kodaly-certified developmental education specialist and has worked with elementary-age children as the director of the American Fork Children's Choir since 2010. He also directs the Happy Valley Ukes, an adult community ukulele orchestra, and organizes The Original Utah Uke Fest, a full day of free concerts, open mics, workshops and more that promotes the guitar's tiny cousin. Taylor also travels to teach Ukulele Bootcamps wherever the wind might blow him. Catch him singing at https: //www.facebook.com/uke.n.me/ or http: //ukuleleplay.com/uke-and-me/ or even https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-yslLxG-k&list=PLr6L7Q-AOghUzk4-VnmQku_-UISAgS