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!
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Improve your ukulele playing — fast! — with hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunes
You got yourself a ukulele and taught yourself to play a passable ‘Happy Birthday,’ but now you’re ready to take it to the next level. You’ve come to the right place. This exercise book is your ticket to becoming a bona fide ukulele hero. It supplies expert tips, tricks and plenty of jammin’ exercises that will have you strumming and picking your way through everything from the classic ukulele tunes to cool jazz progressions, intricate instrumental pieces and blues riffs like a pro — in no time. And if you’re brand-new to the uke, you’ll find a lot to like here as well.
Brush up on the fundamentals — discover how to hold your ukulele; play common chords; read ukulele notation and tab, chord diagrams, neck diagrams, and rhythm charts
Start practising on the right foot — shorten your learning curve with pre-practice warm-ups, including finger- and hand-stretches, breathing exercises, and strength-building exercises
Do some serious strumming — strengthen your rhythm, timing and ability to find the right pattern for any song, or even transform simple strumming patterns into sweet improvs
Become a power-picker — master rhythmic fingerpicking songs and solo fingerstyle pieces with exercises that quickly improve speed, flexibility, and fluidity
Master the fretboard — learn to build major and minor scales across the neck of the ukulele, build chords in different positions up, and down the fretboard and craft slick solos in rock, blues and jazz styles
Audio download includes
Over an hour and a half of audio featuring the exercises and songs from the book — so you can hear exactly how they should sound
Open the book and find:
Hundreds of exercises in various keys, tempos and styles
Strumming exercises from common chord changes to advanced techniques
Scales and scale sequences
Picking patterns and exercises that build speed and confidence
Ways to apply the techniques and tricks you learn to play actual songs
Warm up exercises that make learning faster and easier
Tips on performing before an audience
From the Back Cover
Improve your ukulele playing ― fast! ― with hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunes
You got yourself a ukulele and taught yourself to play a passable ‘Happy Birthday,’ but now you’re ready to take it to the next level. You’ve come to the right place. This exercise book is your ticket to becoming a bona fide ukulele hero. It supplies expert tips, tricks and plenty of jammin’ exercises that will have you strumming and picking your way through everything from the classic ukulele tunes to cool jazz progressions, intricate instrumental pieces and blues riffs like a pro ― in no time. And if you’re brand-new to the uke, you’ll find a lot to like here as well.
Brush up on the fundamentals ― discover how to hold your ukulele; play common chords; read ukulele notation and tab, chord diagrams, neck diagrams, and rhythm charts
Start practising on the right foot ― shorten your learning curve with pre-practice warm-ups, including finger- and hand-stretches, breathing exercises, and strength-building exercises
Do some serious strumming ― strengthen your rhythm, timing and ability to find the right pattern for any song, or even transform simple strumming patterns into sweet improvs
Become a power-picker ― master rhythmic fingerpicking songs and solo fingerstyle pieces with exercises that quickly improve speed, flexibility, and fluidity
Master the fretboard ― learn to build major and minor scales across the neck of the ukulele, build chords in different positions up, and down the fretboard and craft slick solos in rock, blues and jazz styles
Audio download includes
Over an hour and a half of audio featuring the exercises and songs from the book ― so you can hear exactly how they should sound
Open the book and find:
Hundreds of exercises in various keys, tempos and styles
Strumming exercises from common chord changes to advanced techniques
Scales and scale sequences
Picking patterns and exercises that build speed and confidence
Ways to apply the techniques and tricks you learn to play actual songs
Warm up exercises that make learning faster and easier
Tips on performing before an audience
About the Author
Brett McQueen is a musician, songwriter and the founder of ukuleletricks.com, one of the most popular ukulele sites in the world, where he provides audio, video, and written instructional material (along with personalised feedback) to freshly minted ukulele fans everywhere. Alistair Wood is the man (the myth and the legend) behind ukulelehunt.com and the author of Ukulele For Dummies.
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