Ukulele Breakthrough: Helping you go from lonely strummer to life-of-the-party!
by Calvin Chin
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Author: Calvin ChinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-04
ISBN: 0595312586
Number of pages: 118
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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Book Review: Condensed and useful
Summary: 4 Stars
For me, this book turned out to be exactly what I needed to learn ukulele after a lifetime of guitar.
It distills a chord system very simply into forms based on each of the four strings. You tackle one string at a time, first with major, minor and dominant 7th forms on each of the four strings.
I already know music theory and understand building chords on a fretboard etc, so this framework provided a clear and easy way to think about uke.(For whatever reasons, thinking about it as guitar capoed at the 5th fret has been less useful for me than tackling uke on its own.)
The songs used for chord exercises are corny old public-domain tunes that most young folks won't have ever heard. If you can't read music, you won't be able to pick out the tunes. On the other hand it hardly matters as they're exercises. You can apply the concepts to any songbook.
I wouldn't recommend this book for beginning musicians.
But if you already play an instrument and are picking up uke to add to your quiver (good move!), this could be a great book to work through.
It all depends on your learning style, of course, but this one really clicked with me.
Summary of Ukulele Breakthrough: Helping you go from lonely strummer to life-of-the-party!
Maybe you found your Uncle Henry's old ukulele in a storage box someplace, and you'd kind of like to play it a little. Maybe you just bought a new one, picturing yourself entertaining friends. And maybe you wish you could get beyond "Kumbayya" or "I've Been Working on the Railroad."This is the book for you. Because in just a few weeks it can teach you a way to strum and pick so many chords that you can learn hundreds of songs, and develop a repertoire that'll amaze and delight everyone who hears you play!
These lessons show you how to find a whole octave worth of chords on each string of the instrument: majors...minors...sevenths...augmented and diminished...major 7ths...and all the others that'll let you make music. Real music. And it includes 37 song scores (plus some advanced versions) to practice on. You'll even be able to play songs as solos, when you really want to impress your audiences.
Come on--enjoy this breakthrough! Learn how to really play one of the most pleasurable instruments ever made!
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