Ukulele Exercises For Dummies


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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!




The Daily Ukulele


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Offers tips and techniques on playing the ukulele, includes chord charts, and provides arrangements with melody, lyrics, and ukulele chord grids for 365 songs.




The First 20 Hours


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Forget the 10,000 hour rule— what if it’s possible to learn the basics of any new skill in 20 hours or less? Take a moment to consider how many things you want to learn to do. What’s on your list? What’s holding you back from getting started? Are you worried about the time and effort it takes to acquire new skills—time you don’t have and effort you can’t spare? Research suggests it takes 10,000 hours to develop a new skill. In this nonstop world when will you ever find that much time and energy? To make matters worse, the early hours of prac­ticing something new are always the most frustrating. That’s why it’s difficult to learn how to speak a new language, play an instrument, hit a golf ball, or shoot great photos. It’s so much easier to watch TV or surf the web . . . In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition— how to learn any new skill as quickly as possible. His method shows you how to deconstruct com­plex skills, maximize productive practice, and remove common learning barriers. By complet­ing just 20 hours of focused, deliberate practice you’ll go from knowing absolutely nothing to performing noticeably well. Kaufman personally field-tested the meth­ods in this book. You’ll have a front row seat as he develops a personal yoga practice, writes his own web-based computer programs, teaches himself to touch type on a nonstandard key­board, explores the oldest and most complex board game in history, picks up the ukulele, and learns how to windsurf. Here are a few of the sim­ple techniques he teaches: Define your target performance level: Fig­ure out what your desired level of skill looks like, what you’re trying to achieve, and what you’ll be able to do when you’re done. The more specific, the better. Deconstruct the skill: Most of the things we think of as skills are actually bundles of smaller subskills. If you break down the subcompo­nents, it’s easier to figure out which ones are most important and practice those first. Eliminate barriers to practice: Removing common distractions and unnecessary effort makes it much easier to sit down and focus on deliberate practice. Create fast feedback loops: Getting accu­rate, real-time information about how well you’re performing during practice makes it much easier to improve. Whether you want to paint a portrait, launch a start-up, fly an airplane, or juggle flaming chain­saws, The First 20 Hours will help you pick up the basics of any skill in record time . . . and have more fun along the way.




Hal Leonard Ukulele Method


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(Fretted). The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone just learning to play ukulele. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by acclaimed performer and uke master Lil' Rev includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The accompanying CD contains 46 tracks of songs for demonstration and play along. Includes: types of ukuleles, tuning, music reading, melody playing, chords, strumming, scales, tremolo, music notation and tablature, a variety of music styles, ukulele history and much more.




Ukulele Practice Time


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Sammy the Seahorse loves playing the ukulele more than anything. When he tries to learn a new song, he feels frustrated because he can't play the chords. With the help of a wise pufferfish who is a music teacher, he learns the chords and the importance of practice and patience. Follow Sammy as he shows perseverance and learns a favorite song that will soon fill the ocean with a beautiful sound. Sammy learns beginner ukulele skills: The value of perseverance The importance of patience & practice Ukulele chords (C, Am, F) Learn more with the glossary and guide to playing the song Sammy learns. You will discover a finger guide, chord diagrams, Treasures of the Sea song, and tips on how to play the song! Have fun strumming! Through Sammy's journey, your child will learn to embrace challenges and celebrate the sweet sounds of progress. Sammy learns how important it is to be patient as a new ukulele player and make time to practice. He even learns ukulele chords and a new song! Suitable for children ages 5 to 9.




Ukulele Practice And Technique Bootcamp: Uke Like The Pros


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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




Ukulele Exercises For Dummies, Enhanced Edition


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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 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.




Bob Dylan - Ukulele Chord Songbook


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(Ukulele). A unique collection of 100 classic songs from Bob Dylan's impressive 50-years-and-counting recording career, specially arranged for ukulele with easy-to-read chord boxes and full lyrics. Songs include: All Along the Watchtower * Blowin' in the Wind * Chimes of Freedom * Don't Think Twice, It's All Right * Duquesne Whistle * Forever Young * I Shall Be Released * It's All Over Now, Baby Blue * Just Like a Woman * Knockin' on Heaven's Door * Lay, Lady, Lay * Like a Rolling Stone * Make You Feel My Love * Masters of War * Mr. Tambourine Man * The Times They Are A-Changin' * This Wheel's on Fire * Visions of Johanna * and more.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Ukulele


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Whether you want to play a few simple melodies or jam with other musicians, this helpful guide gives you the surest path from start to success.