Mastering Chord Inversion for Ukulele

Mastering Chord Inversion for Ukulele

Author: Mark Kailana Nelson

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1619114674

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With over 1,000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mastering Ukulele Chord Inversions is the most comprehensive and useful ukulele chord book ever published. It includes all the chords you will need for fingerstyle and chord melody arrangements, complex styles like jazz and bossa nova, or simply for tickling your fingers and exercising your brain. This book can help you find any chord, but will also greatly enhance your understanding of how chords work, enabling you to become a better musician. Included are three full-sized fingerboard diagrams showing all of the practical chord intervals for major, dominant and minor chords in every key. These will help you visualize how intervals relate to each other. They will also help you play scales and arpeggios and find alternate fingerings for common chords. Rather than list all the chords of a given type in 12 keys on one page, chords are grouped together by how they are used in a particular key. If you are looking for a G7 chord, you'll find it alongside other dominant chords like G9, G7b9 and G7#5. Chords which serve similar musical roles are grouped together. Likewise, all the various flavors of major chords (6, 6/9, M7, add 2) and minor chords appear together in one convenient place. The chord diagrams have the familiar fretboard grid, with the lowest fret clearly marked. In addition, each note in the chord is labeled to aid you in your study. Each chord appears in several forms that move up the neck. The ukulele's re-entrant tuning requires either doubling or leaving out certain chord notes to accommodate the instrument's four strings. This means chord shapes are not inversions, strictly speaking, but the word is as good as any. Practicing inversions as they move up and down the neck is essential to mastering your ukulele. Alternate fingerings for chords at the lowest position of the neck have also been added.


Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele

Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele

Author: Mark Kailana Nelson

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2011-02-14

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1610652940

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While the 'ukulele is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance on the mainland, in the land of its birth, it has never gone out of style. Hawaiians took to the jumping flea right from the start, creating music of stunning beauty and versatility. Now intermediate players can learn to play lovely finger style solo arrangements of classic Hawaiian songs, folk songs, standards–even a few pieces from the classical guitar repertoire.The book offers 27 arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature playable on any 'ukulele. Songs are grouped according to level of difficulty, starting with simple arrangements well within the grasp of dedicated beginners and intermediate players and leading through more challenging songs featuring unusual chord voicings, inversions up the neck, tricky fingerings and all the fun stuff the author could muster. to aid the student, the companion CD includes all of the songs taught. Includes chord charts, inversion studies, introductory material on finger-picking and making the transition from strumming to melodic playing.


Ukulele Exercises For Dummies

Ukulele Exercises For Dummies

Author: Brett McQueen

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-29

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1118506944

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Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast! - with hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunes You have a ukulele, you know just enough to be dangerous, and now you're ready to do something with it. You're in luck: Ukulele Exercises For Dummies helps you become a better player. This practice-based book focuses on the skills that entry-level players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you creating music in no time that include: • Creating rock-steady strumming patterns and rhythms • Becoming a better fingerpicker with patterns, arpeggio exercises, and solo fingerpicking pieces • Expanding your fretboard knowledge and crafting your own rock, blues and jazz riffs and solos • Playing actual songs on the ukulele - everything from the classic ukulele tunes to the 12 bar blues! • Downloadable audio files of the exercises found in the book, providing you with a self-contained practice package No matter if you're a beginning ukulele player or you're wanting to stretch and improve your chops, Ukulele Exercises For Dummies puts you on your way to becoming a ukulele extraordinaire!


Ukulele Mastery Simplified

Ukulele Mastery Simplified

Author: Erich Andreas

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781482650334

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Would you like to know how to play the ukulele like an ukulele master and eliminate all your disbeliefs that have been holding you back from truly mastering the ukulele? Sound impossible? Well it's not... Ukulele Mastery Simplified, by Erich Andreas AKA Your Uke Sage, is packed with the most important ukulele lessons that will help you take your uke playing ability to the highest level it has ever been! Erich has taught/played ukulele and guitar professionally for almost 30 years. INSIDE YOU WILL DISCOVER: Exactly "Where to Start?" The 3 Most Important Dexterity Exercises How to Play Open and Bar Chords How to Read Chord Charts The Anatomy of the Ukulele The 6 Most Fundamental Concepts to Guitar Strumming How to Read Ukulele Tablature Major and Blues Scale Maps How to Use a Capo The Correct Way Where the Notes Fall on the Fret Board How to Tune Your Ukulele Diatonic Harmony and Music Theory And Much, Much More... You will FINALLY get to fully understand ukulele music theory while at the same time learn all the important ukulele chords needed to become an advanced uke "ninja". This book is for beginners to advanced ukulele players. The solutions you'll discover inside Ukulele Mastery Simplified will have you on your way to playing the ukulele like a true strumming, chords and melodic uke ninja! The ukulele lessons inside this book will have you rockin' out to all your favorite uke jams and songs in no time.


Complete Technique for Modern Guitar

Complete Technique for Modern Guitar

Author: JOSEPH. ALEXANDER

Publisher: WWW.Fundamental-Changes.com

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781789330403

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Jazz Guitar Chord Mastery is a guitar chord method that easily develops your harmonic knowledge and fretboard skills, while helping you master and use advanced jazz chords, voicings and inversions.


Basic Music Theory

Basic Music Theory

Author: Jonathan Harnum

Publisher: Questions Ink. Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780970751287

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Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.


The Jazz Piano Book

The Jazz Piano Book

Author: Mark Levine

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2011-01-12

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1457101440

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The most highly acclaimed jazz piano method ever published! Over 300 pages with complete chapters on Intervals and triads, The major modes and II-V-I, 3-note voicings, Sus. and phrygian Chords, Adding notes to 3-note voicings, Tritone substitution, Left-hand voicings, Altering notes in left-hand Stride and Bud Powell voicings, Block chords, Comping ...and much more! Endorsed by Kenny Barron, Down Beat, Jamey Aebersold, etc.


The Beatles for Fingerstyle Ukulele

The Beatles for Fingerstyle Ukulele

Author: The Beatles

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1495018180

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(Ukulele). The Beatles for Fingerstyle Ukulele contains 25 favorite songs, each presented two ways: first as solo fingerstyle arrangements for playing simple chord-melody instrumentals with tab and chord diagrams included and also as lyric-and-chord lead sheets for basic strumming and singing. Songs are introduced in order of difficulty and also include fun and interesting facts about the Beatles' original recordings and history. Songs include: Across the Universe * And I Love Her * Can't Buy Me Love * Eight Days a Week * Here Comes the Sun * Hey Jude * In My Life * Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds * Something * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Yesterday * You've Got to Hide Your Love Away * and more.


Harmonic Analysis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution

Harmonic Analysis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution

Author: Curt Sheller

Publisher:

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9780971404427

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Applying harmonic analysis principles with harmonized scale charts for scale selection and chord substitution.Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords. It is the process used to analyze the harmonic structure of a progression, song or composition. This analysis is then used to make scale selections for improvisation and chord substitution.