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Uke Can Do It!

Developing Your School Ukulele Program

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Uke Can Do It!

Developing Your School Ukulele Program

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Affordable, versatile, portable, and popular once again, the ukulele is an ideal instrument for lifelong music making that can also be an engaging component of school music programs. At the elementary or secondary level, students can use the ukulele to explore everything from music theory, improvisation, composition, and ear training, to repertoire that includes contemporary popular music. At a lesser expense than any other instrument which can do as much, the ukulele is perfect for breathing fresh air into any music program.

Uke Can Do It! provides everything music educators need to develop a ukulele program in their school, including:

* A guide for first-time ukulele buyers
* Beginner instruction in how to play the ukulele
* Play lists of ukulele music by top performers
* Strategies for proposing and outfitting a ukulele program
* Classroom management tips
* Support for use with special learners
* Learning sequences in ukulele technique
* Ideas for classroom use and performance
* Scales and chord charts with fingering

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: Getting Started
1. Overview
What is the Ukulele?
Where Can the Ukulele Fit In Schools?
Why Include the Ukulele in Music Education?
2. Becoming Ukulele Literate
Getting Your Own Ukulele
Basics of Playing the Ukulele
Listening Guide
Who’s Who?
Next Steps
3. Starting a School Program
What is Your Goal?
Making a Pitch
Funding and Parental Involvement
Guidelines for Student Instruments
PART II: Up and Running
4. Classroom Management
Setting Up the Room

Using Shared Instruments
Tuning Instruments
Language and Terminology
Managing Student Behavior
Promoting Home Practice
Maintenance and Repairs
5. Introducing Students to the Ukulele
Accommodating (Special) Learners
First Session with Instruments
6. Technical Sequence
Strumming and Picking
Fretting and Related Techniques
7. Applications in Classroom Music
Reading Rhythms
Reading Treble Staff Pitches
Matching Pitch While Singing
Analyzing Harmony
Recognizing Intervals, Chords, and Chord Changes by Ear
Improvising
Composing
Illustrating Acoustic Principles and Music Theory Concepts
Accompanying Students in Dalcroze/Music-and-Movement Activities
Incorporating Ukulele into Orff Schulwerk Activities

8. Ukuleles in Performance
Choosing Repertoire
Arranging Music
Chord “Tricks”
Accompaniment
Promoting the Program
Appendix
One- and Two-Chord Songs
Beginner Chords
Beginner Chords (modified)
Scales
150 Chords Diagrams with Fingering
Glossary
Index

Product details

Published Apr 15 2014
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 130
ISBN 9798216247838
Imprint R&L Education
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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