Ukulele Practice And Technique Bootcamp: Uke Like The Pros


Book Description

Do you struggle with your technique on your ukulele? Do you wish you had more speed, strength, dexterity, and confidence in your playing? The Uke Like The Pros Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootcamp book will not only help you develop killer technique, speed, dexterity and strength, but will give you some amazing warm-up exercises you can do every time you pick up your ukulele. This book will guide you step-by-step through 20 exercises that will build up your technique in both your right and left hands. Each lesson will progressively get more difficult, building upon the techniques you learned in the previous lesson. This Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootcamp has helped thousands of students, many of them just like you, gain better control and skills on their ukulele. Are you a beginner? No problem, this technique bootcamp will start for the beginning and help you gradually increase your skills and ability. Don't worry if you have been playing a while because with the play-along backing tracks you can practice each exercise at the appropriate tempo that fits your skill level. With this book you get free access to the all the backing tracks for each lesson. You will get the slow, medium, and fast tracks, as well as the extended long backing tracks, so you can work these exercises up and down the fretboard at your own speed. There is an accompanying video instructional course (sold separately) that compliments this book available at the Uke Like The Pros site. The warm-ups you learn in this book can be used over and over again as you continue to develop more speed and accuracy in your playing. You will also notice these techniques will help all aspects of your ukulele playing, such as your strumming, fingerpicking, soloing, and chord melodies. Plus, while you are learning and practicing these exercises, your eye-hand coordination will improve and you will develop a stronger ear. Since many of these patterns are repetitive and move to different strings and frets, your ear will tell you when you get off. Need help learning the ukulele fretboard? Since all the techniques you will learn in the Ukulele Practice and Technique Challenge Bootcamp will work up and down the neck, you will gain an improved knowledge and ability to play both horizontally and vertically up the ukulele neck. You will develop speed and technique in both your left and right hands. You will see massive improvement in your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fingers, through exercises that work on chromatic notes, leaps, jumps, scales, sequences, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and spider exercises. This will be the greatest book you can find for your ukulele playing that will build your technique so you can become the ukulele player that you know you can be. Sound too good to be true? It's not. The Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootcamp is the most amazing book to build your strength and technique on the ukulele. Each lesson was been hand-crafted for you by ukulele master, Terry Carter. Terry is the founder of ukelikethepros.com and has taken the techniques that helped him become the #1 online ukulele instructor and put them into one comprehensive book. Terry spent over 20 years as a Los Angeles studio musician, producer, and writer, working with greats such as Weezer and Josh Groban. He has written and produced tracks for commercials (Discount Tire and Puma) and TV shows, including Scorpion (CBS), Pit Bulls & Parolees (Animal Planet), Trippin', Wildboyz, and The Real World (MTV), has self-published 10 books for Uke Like The Pros and Rock Like The Pros, filmed over 30 ukulele and guitar online courses, and has millions of views on his Uke Like The Pros and Rock Like The Pros social media channels. Terry received a Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar Performance from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Music from San Diego State University, with an emphasis in Jazz Studies and Music Education. Let's dive into the Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootca




Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp


Book Description

The Beginning Baritone Bootcamp book by Terry Carter is perfect of the beginning ukulele or guitar player who is ready to master the songs and essential fundamentals necessary to become the best baritone ukulele player that you can be.Do you know how the baritone ukulele is different from the soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles? Have you struggled finding instructional material for the baritone ukulele? If you have asked yourself these questions, then the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book by Terry Carter is going to be perfect for you. Terry Carter and Uke Like The Pros has some great online ukulele courses out there but what will the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book do for me?The Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book will provide you with a step-by-step baritone ukulele tutorial instruction that will give you the necessary tools to learn to play your favorite songs.Give you a full understanding of the tuning and the chords used on the baritone ukulele so that you can not only follow youtube videos but also properly play with other ukulele players using soprano, concert, or tenor ukuleles. Baritone ukuleles are tuned D - G - B - E (low to high), while soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles are tuned G - C - E - A (low to high).Since the baritone ukulele is different not only in size, sound, and strings as the soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles you'll get a solid foundation to master this awesome instruments.With over 30 years as an educator, master instructor Terry Carter will bring his proven teaching method that has helped thousands of people learn the ukulele, many just like you.Discover the chords necessary to play the songs you always wanted to play.Develop amazing right hand technique. The strumming hand is the most important hand when playing the ukulele. I will show you techniques that will help you develop speed, strength, and dexterity.Develop a strong sense of rhythm and time with the downloadable backing tracks. You'll get a logical and methodical system for learning the baritone ukulele.Grow confidence in your playing and you are learning the right things.The Beginning Baritone Ukulele book is broken up into 4 categories.PART ONE: The Essentials - Everything you need to know to properly play the baritone, understand music (even if your a beginner), and build your confidence as a musician.PART TWO: Songs - Songs are one of the most important things to start because they teach you how to play and memorize chords, how to strum, how to smoothing transition from chord to chord, and have fun as you are learning parts from your favorite songs.PART THREE: Next Level Songs - It's great to learn the easy songs, but at some point you have to break out of your comfort zone and start challenging yourself. This section is perfect at push your playing to new levels as you and others hear a difference in the way you sound on the baritone ukulele.PART FOUR: Scales - Scales are essential to know because they build your technique and speed as you get comfortable going up and down the strings and the baritone neck. Once you get your scales down you can start creating your own melodies that will for sure turn the heads of those listening. Weather your a beginner baritone ukulele or guitar player the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Bootcamp book will help you become the best baritone ukulele player that you can be.




Master the Ukulele 1


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The Uke The Pros Master The Ukulele 1 by Terry Carter is a comprehensive ukulele method book that is perfect for the beginner to intermediate player. You will learn the foundations of strumming, chords, and songs in the style of artists such as IZ, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Vance Joy and many more; get a full introduction to Blues rhythm where you will learn shuffle blues, straight blues, blues-rock, slow blues, and jazz blues; challenge yourself with scales and advanced strum patterns such as the triplet strum and the rasgueado. As a ukulele player does this sound familiar? I don't know where to start? Switching chords is hard? I've tried learning on my own but I'm stuck? Uke Like The Pros has the solution for you. Master The Ukulele 1 will show you exactly where to start with step-by-step lessons that will show you the chords necessary to play your favorite songs, help you switch chords faster, help you develop amazing right hand technique by building strength, speed, and dexterity and master the different strum patterns used in your favorite pop, rock, jazz, blues, reggae, 'island', country, and fingerstyle. Master The Ukulele 1 will make you a better and more confident ukulele player whether you want to play your favorite songs, write your own songs, play with friends, jam at the beach, or just have a good time in the comfort of your home.




Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook: Uke Like The Pros


Book Description

Welcome to the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook by Uke Like The Pros and written by Terry Carter. This book is written for the beginning baritone ukulele player that is interested in learning how to finger pick. This book will not only teach you some cool songs but will also help you develop the fingerstyle techniques necessary to play more advanced finger picking pieces. By the end of this book you will also learn 7 of the most important and widely used fingerstyle patterns that you can apply to all of your favorite songs. This Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook is a step by step method to master finger picking. Each of the 7 fingerstyle patterns you are going to learn will be introduced in 2 separate lessons. The first lesson of each fingerstyle pattern will introduce a finger picking pattern and have you practice that pattern over a simple 2 chord progression. This will allow you to focus on learning and memorizing the fingerstyle pattern while not having to worry about switching to a lot of different chords. The second lesson of each fingerstyle pattern will be an original song written specifically for you to continue to master the finger picking pattern you just learned. But this time you will apply the pattern over a song that uses more chords, moves around different strings and the fretboard, and sounds cool. These songs will give you a sense of accomplishment when you master them and will make people turn their heads to listen when they hear you playing them. By the end of this book you will not only learn 7 of the most important fingerpicking patterns but will have 7 complete songs you can practice and play. As a bonus, at the end of this book, there is a chord progression already written for you that you can create your own fingerstyle pattern for. Whether you use a pattern that you learn from this book or you come up with your very own pattern, this will help you develop the skill to apply finger picking to any song. The Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook with also show you different tips and concepts related to fingerstyle playing such as the rest stroke vs the free stroke. This course was written for standard D - G - B - E baritone ukulele tuning and you can use either high D or low D tuning. With the purchase of this book you will get free access to the slow and fast backing tracks that accompany every lesson at ukelikethepros.com/baritonesongbook There is also a complete video course (sold separately) that is available at ukelikethepros.com/baritonefingertyle Are you ready? This is what is needed from you. To make the decision right now that you will stay committed to working on the Beginning Baritone Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook every day until you get through all the lessons and songs. That means setting aside some time, even if it's just 15 minutes a day to practice this material. You will only improve and get better with a daily practice routine and discipline. I realize life it busy with work, families, emergencies and other unexpected things but decide right now that no matter what, even if you must get up early or go to bed late that you will practice daily. The rewards and growth you will see will outweigh any pain or difficulties you might have to keeping up with your practice. Don't forget to get your free backing tracks for this course at ukelikethepros.com/baritonesongbook




Next Level Ukulele


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Easy play-along guide to understanding music, building confidence and learning to jam like a pro, with over 100 audio play-along practice tracks If you play ukulele to a basic level but want to take your playing skills to the next level by being able to hear, follow and understand the music and songs you play then this book is for you. With Next Level Ukulele you can: - Dramatically boost your confidence when performing - Develop your music theory knowledge, rhythm and listening skills - Improve your ability to play and remember songs - Transform your all round skills as a musician Does the world really need another uke book? We think it does - you see, many experienced beginner/intermediate ukulele players grow frustrated by their inability to understand and follow the music they play. Instead of blindly following the chords on the page, they want to be able to ‘hear and feel’ the music they play in the same way an experienced musician does! This is where Next Level Ukulele comes in - simply follow the step-by-step method in this book (with over 100 play-along tracks included), and see your musical skills improve dramatically. By focusing on really listening and learning to recognise the sounds in the music you play - you can go beyond basic ukulele playing, and begin to think, hear and feel like a real musician. Next Level Ukulele comes with over 100 play-along backing tracks demonstrating most of the examples in the book. These are used to teach you to hear and recognise all of the most common things you hear in the songs you play - chords, chord progressions, keys and key changes, common rhythmic patterns and more. Playing along with these ‘live band feel’ backing tracks is also the perfect way to practice your uke playing at home and become totally confident when you make music with others - whether it’s as a solo performer, in a uke band or club, at open mic nights or impromptu sing-alongs and jam sessions. Next Level Ukulele shows you how to: Learn to play ‘by ear’. This is how many musicians can work out and play songs they’ve never even played before! Learn how to develop the skills you need to eventually be able to do this Understand and recognise the common elements we see in the popular ukulele repertoire - major and minor chords and keys, different rhythms and time signatures, ‘seventh’ chords, common chord sequences, key changes, ‘borrowed’ chords and much more Recognise common song forms and structures like the 12 bar blues, ‘IV’ chord chorus songs, and song based on simple repeating chord patterns (makes it much easier to learn and remember songs you want to play) Learn to ‘feel the rhythm’ and nail common rhythmic feels and strumming patterns - including swing rhythms, shuffles, ‘train’ rhythms, waltz time and more Perfect if: - You want to improve your ukulele playing skills, feel more confident when playing with other musicians, and simply enjoy your playing more - You’d like to become one of those players who can hear songs and work them out simply by using their ears! - You want to improve your ability to listen to and follow the music you play - You want to learn some of the skills you need to jam with others (and feel comfortable and confident doing so!) - You’d like to play music and songs on the spot ‘by ear’ instead of always following a chord sheet - You want a deeper understanding of the music you play - You’d like to be able to recognise the common chords, chord progressions, song forms and key changes used in the popular ukulele repertoire Ready to see a dramatic boost in your ukulele and music skills? Then grab Next Level Ukulele (with over 100 play-along practice tracks) and get started!




Master the Ukulele 2 Uke Like the Pros


Book Description

Master The Ukulele 2 by Uke Like The Pros is the long awaited follow-up to best-selling book and ukulele course, Master The Ukulele 1. Master The Ukulele 2 by Terry Carter takes what you learned in Master The Ukulele 1 and blasts those skills and techniques to the moon. The Master The Ukulele 2 book offers a step-by-step approach to learning and mastering the ukulele for the Intermediate ukulele player. With this book you get free access to the Master The Ukulele 2 backing tracks for every lesson at ukelikethepros.com/master-2. Master The Ukulele 2 is broken up into 2 sections, plus an added twist. In the 1st section you will learn the most popular songs, chords, chord progressions, and strum patterns, for all ukulele players. You will dive deep into Rock, Pop, Island, Reggae, and Jazz styles. You will take your knowledge of chords and strumming to levels you can't imagine by learning songs in the style of classic songs such as Stand By Me, Stir It Up, Santeria, Creep, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Blvd. of Broken Dreams, With or Without You, Island In The Sun, Can't Help Falling In Love, What A Wonderful World, and Honky-Tonk Woman. There is no better way to learn and improve your ukulele playing than by mastering songs in the style of greats such as IZ, Bob Marley, Radiohead, Sublime, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Elvis, 21 Pilots, The Rolling Stones, Weezer, Louis Armstrong, Ben E. King, and U2. In the second section you dig hard into the Blues. Although you learned a lot of Blues and scales in Master The Ukulele 1, your Blues playing will go even further in Master the Ukulele 2. You will learn Shuffle Blues, Blues Rock, Jump Blues, Country Blues, Strumming Blues, Single-Note Blues, Minor Blues, Jazz Blues, Chuck Berry Blues, Octave Blues, and even a Blues Solo. You will master the Blues in many keys by studying the styles of Blues greats such as Chuck Berry, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Water, Stevie-Ray Vaughan, Johnny Cash, Wes Montgomery, Robert Johnson, and Jimi Hendrix. The twist of the book is that besides mastering Classic Songs and Blues, you will learn how to fingerpick with House Of The Rising Sun, study Classical music with Ode To Joy by Beethoven, learn TAB, understand Beginning and Advanced Strum Patterns, and learn how to play a complete Blues solo using the Blues Scale. Terry Carter is a master musician and teacher who has spent over 30 years as a studio musician, producer, and writer, working with greats such as Weezer, Josh Groban, Robby Krieger (The Doors), 2-time Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin (Calling All Dawns), Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses), Grammy-winning producer Charles Goodan (Santana/Rolling Stones), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Terry has written and produced tracks for commercials (Discount Tire and Puma) and TV shows, including Scorpion (CBS), Pit Bulls & Parolees (Animal Planet), Trippin', Wildboyz, and The Real World (MTV). He has published more than 15 books for Uke Like The Pros and Rock Like The Pros, filmed over 30 ukulele and guitar online courses, and has millions of views on his social media channels. Terry received a Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar Performance from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Music from San Diego State University, with an emphasis in Jazz Studies and Music Education. He has taught at the University of Southern California, San Diego State University, Santa Monica College, Miracosta College, and Los Angeles Trade Tech College.




Ukulele Exercises For Dummies


Book Description

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 Exercises For Dummies, Enhanced Edition


Book Description

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 Lessons for Kids - Book 1


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Teach how to play ukulele for kids with our easy ukulele lessons for kids. ***Comes with online access to free ukulele videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music learning.*** Progressive Ukulele Method for Young Beginners - Book 1 contains all you need to know to start teaching kids to play ukulele - in one easy-to-follow, lesson-by-lesson children’s ukulele tutorial. Suitable for children aged 4 to 8 years and all types of ukuleles including concert ukulele, soprano ukulele and tenor ukulele. No prior knowledge of how to read music or playing the ukulele is required to teach a child to learn to play ukulele from this book. Teach your child: • How to play ukulele chords for kids and rhythm ukulele strumming patterns • How to play ukulele notes for kids • All the fundamental techniques of ukulele playing including correct posture, hand position and fingering technique for playing 5 ukulele notes and 3 ukulele chords • Basic ukulele theory for kids including how to read music and ukulele chord symbols • Ukulele tips for kids that every child should know when learning ukulele • Shortcuts for how to learn ukulele fast by getting the most from ukulele practice sessions Contains everything you need to know about how to teach a child to play ukulele today. Features include: • Progressive step-by-step easy ukulele lessons written by a professional children’s ukulele teacher • Beautifully illustrated in full color throughout • Easy-to-read ukulele music for kids and ukulele chords for kids, with lyrics to sing along • Ukulele chord chart and note chart containing all chords and notes taught in this book • 37 great sounding ukulele exercises containing popular easy ukulele songs for kids Kids ukulele lessons have never been this easy for parents and teachers who want to teach children to learn how to play the ukulele, fast. LearnToPlayMusic.com's ukulele lessons for kids are used by children’s ukulele teachers worldwide to teach how to play ukulele for kids. For over 30 years, our team of professional authors, composers and musicians have crafted music lesson books that are a cut above the rest. We offer a large selection of music lessons for kids that cover many different instruments in print, eBook and app formats. Awarded the 'Quality Excellence Design' (QED) seal of approval for eBook innovation, LearnToPlayMusic.com continues to set the standard for quality children’s music education resources.




Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook


Book Description

Welcome to the Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook for ukulele. This is a perfect songbook for the beginning ukulele player interested in exploring the world of finger style ukulele. I'm excited that you are here, and I cannot wait to for you to get started with playing fingerstyle ukulele. A complete video companion course with step-by-step videos and backing tracks is available by Uke Like The Pros (purchased separately). The goal of the Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook is to introduce fingerstyle ukulele playing, and to teach you the finger picking techniques and styles needed for you to move on and play more advanced finger style pieces. I'm not going to go through various pop songs and show you how to play them, but rather give you the tools and techniques needed to learn on your own to fingerpick any song you want. The Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook works well for the beginning fingerstyle ukulele player or the player who is ready to break out of just strumming songs and is ready to challenge themselves and boost their skill level. This book will also serve as a great warmup for my follow-up book, Ukulele Fingerstyle Mastery, which is also available here on Amazon in both print and Kindle versions. The Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook is a curriculum based, step-by-step book, where each lesson builds your skills one technique at a time. My personal goal is to give you the skills you need to then tackle the pieces in my Ukulele Fingerstyle Mastery book. Because the ukulele is such a great worldwide community-based instrument, I want you to track your progress on the Uke Like The Pros Forum. Here is what to expect: You will become proficient in 7 of the most commonly used fingerstyle patterns used in ukulele playing. With each fingerstyle pattern, I will introduce 2 separate lessons. The first lesson will be a warm-up exercise where I introduce the finger style pattern and then have you practice it over a very simple 2-chord progression. This way you can focus on learning and memorizing the finger style pattern and not have to worry about switching chords, YET. The second lesson of each finger style pattern will be an original song I wrote just for you, not only to continue to master the finger style pattern, but to have you apply that pattern to different chords so you actually play a song that sounds cool and will make people turn their heads when you are playing it. I will also intermesh the book with different tips and concepts related to finger style ukulele, such as the rest stroke vs. the free stroke. I wrote the Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle book on High "G" ukulele, but you can use any soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele with either high "G" or low "G". This is what I need from you. Make the decision right now that you will stay committed every day until you get through every piece in this book. That means you will set aside some time, even if it's just 15 minutes a day, to practice these exercises and songs. You will only improve and get better with the daily discipline. I realize life it busy with work, families, emergencies, and other unexpected things, but decide right now that no matter what, even if you must get up early or go to bed last, that you will practice. I promise the rewards without outweigh any pain or difficulties you might have to practicing and growing. I'm really excited for you to become a great ukulele finger picker with the Beginning Ukulele Fingerstyle Songbook. Check out Uke Like The Pros for all your ukulele needs. Ready? Let's Go!