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The reggae strum is a fun strum that can be used for almost any song! It will give the song that fun island sound.
If you are looking for good video lessons - Ukulele Buddy provides ear training, basic theory and various strumming techniques explained in a way beginners are sure to easily understand. This lesson course has the most important ingredient you should look for in lessons overall - a good teacher. A good teacher always makes learning easier. When they say it's just 7 minute videos it's not that you don't practice, it's that playing along with the videos and playing the songs IS the practice and when you are asked to practice, it will be playing along with the instructor, not practicing alone. This is the same way I structure my group lessons playing the songs and having fun IS the practice. That's the best way to insure everyone sticks with it and has fun. From the Ukulele Buddy Website: My video lessons will work for you ... Click here to get Ukulele Buddy (affiliate)
Joining Ukulele Buddy using the affiliate link above helps Play Ukulele NOW Wagon Wheel; Behind the music
Wagon wheel is composed of two different parts. The chorus and melody for the song comes from a demo recorded by Bob Dylan that was never officially released. The Dylan song was available on a bootleg, it was entitled "Rock me mamma". Although Dylan left the song an unfinished sketch, Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show wrote verses for the song around Dylan's original chorus. Secor's additional lyrics transformed "Rock Me, Mama" into "Wagon Wheel".
Back Home in Derry; Behind the Music
Like many other great folk songs this one came out of the prison system.
Bobby Sands, an IRA activist, was a political prisoner in an Irish Prison at the time he wrote this song. He was in for possession of a handgun Ghost Riders in the Sky; Behind the Music
The song tells a folk tale of a cowboy who has a vision of red-eyed, steel-hooved cattle thundering across the sky, being chased by the spirits of damned cowboys. One warns him that if he does not change his ways, he will be doomed to join them, forever "trying to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies".
Jones said that he had been told the story when he was 12 years old by an old cowboy friend.
This is an advanced lesson and for those that have completed the Play Ukulele NOW Method and Songbook or have a good understand of the basics. Feel free to post any questions you might have about it.
Why would you need to change the key?Man of Constant Sorrow; Behind the music
Man of Constant Sorrow was originally recorded by the partially blind fiddler Dick Burnett in 1913. Burnett, interviewed late in life, couldn't remember whether he had written the tune, saying: "No, I think I got that ballad from somebody. I dunno. It may be my song." Wikipedia comments on the uncertainty around the song's origins:
According to the Country Music Annual, Burnett "probably tailored a pre-existing song to fit his blindness" and may have adapted a hymn. Charles Wolfe argues that "Burnett probably based his melody on an old Baptist hymn called 'Wandering Boy.' |
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