Best Educational `ukulele DVD's

Best Educational `ukulele DVD for Beginners

"Play the `Ukulele with Roy Sakuma" DVD by Roy Sakuma

Roy Sakuma is the founder of Roy Sakuma Ukulele Studios, Hawaii's foremost ukulele school. This is a very good DVD to get started with
if you have had no previous music instruction.

"Ukulele for Kids" taught by Marcy Marxer

Great for kids but this DVD will work for all beginning ukulele player. Simple, and slow, a little korny humor mixed in.

"Gateway to Rhythm" by John McLaughlin & S. Ganesh Vinayakram

This DVD was recommended by friend, Ken Wojewocki, a great guitar studio musician. The rhythm duration syllables help break down the
rhythm in manageable parts. Once you learn how to use these rhythm duration phrases, you can adapt to some very complex time signatures. This
DVD will help people with their rhythm and phrasing at all performance levels.  These rhythm duration phrases are similar to the ones used in the Kodaly method also which is recommended by James Hill ( http://www.ukulelejames.com ) and J. Chalmers Doane, founder of the Halifax Canadian Ukulele Program. 

Best `ukulele DVD for Intermediate/Advanced `ukulele players

     "Essential Strums for the `Ukulele" taught by Ralph Shaw

This is an excellent DVD for intermediate/advanced ukulele players. You get to practice the most used strums in ukulele music.
The chapter are broken down nicely, and the corresponding music booklet makes it easy to follow along. These will take awhile to learn but
with patience and repetition you can master these strum patterns.

   "Play Loud Ukulele" by Jake Shimabukuro

This is a great intermediate/advanced `ukulele DVD. Jake shows you some very intricate strumming and string tricks, that can really bring your
performances to a whole new level. I only wish there were some documentation/sheet music to help support the played material. 

"Joy of Uke Vol1 and Vol2" taught by Jumpin' Jim Beloff

The is a very good DVDs for beginners, if you stay away from the songs with 4-finger chords. They are hard to "hit" and can frustrate even intermediate and advanced players at times. Patience and persistence does pay off when it comes to uke playing. Relax and repeat then go back awhile later, and try again. Practice going back and forth between two common chords, make sure the sound is clean. If the sound is not clean, SLOW DOWN until the sound is clean. Sounding sloppy at a higher speed won't help you. You won't get everything at once.