Blues Music for the Ukulele

• Blues music can be a very sad, sorrowful style of music...or it can be full of hope and optimism.

• It came from the slave workers in the Deep South of America around 1880 singing about their lives and struggles.

• Mostly blues music has a set pattern of 12 bars, with a set pattern of chords.

• Robert Johnson was amongst the first famous Blues guitarists.

• His life and death were full of colourful legends about his talents as a Blues guitarist.

• Rainer, from Germany plays an amazing ukulele called a Resonator ukulele
• Watch him play this difficult version of the Blues he calls 'Mississippi Blues.' 

(Watch out for the fish Rainer!)     

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BB King is an amazing Blues guitarist with a long career.

Click here to take a listen to his entertaining song 'One Shoe Blues'