ALFRED THE Complete Ukulele Method: Mastering Ukulele

Series: Complete Method
Category: Ukulele Method or Supplement
Format: Book & DVD
Instrument: Ukulele

Learn about arranging chord-melody solos using the entire ukulele fretboard, and have fun playing solos of well-known songs like "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "The Star-Spangled Banner." Techniques like triplet strums, bursts, split strums, and fan strokes are introduced. Explore musical styles such as old school, ragtime, Hawaiian, fingerstyle, and rock---and learn rhythms from around the world. Have fun rocking, getting funky, and improvising over jazz progressions. Any ukulele player, no matter how advanced, will improve their playing with this book and DVD featuring ukulele star Daniel Ho.

Recipient of "Best in Show" Award at NAMM 2014.

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• About the Authors 
• Introduction 
• Chapter 1---The World A'Chording to Uke 
• Lesson 1: The Harmonized Major Scale 
• Lesson 2: Four Types of 7th Chord Inversions 
• Lesson 3: Major and Minor 6th Inversions 
• Lesson 4: Suspended Chords 
• Lesson 5: What Are All Those Other Numbers, Anyway? 
• Lesson 6: ii-V-I Progression 
• Chapter 2---Arranging Chord-Melody Style up the Neck 
• Lesson 1: Chord Scale 
• Lesson 2: When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody) 
• When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody) 
• Lesson 3: The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody) 
• The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody) 
• Lesson 4: Jazzin' the Blues (Chord-Melody) 
• Chapter 3---Yet More Strums and Techniques 
• Lesson 1: Reviewing Triples, Bursts, and Split Strums 
• Lesson 2: The Fan Stroke 
• Lesson 3: The Fan Stroke Continued 
• Lesson 4: One-Finger Tremolo 
• Lesson 5: Rasgueados 
• Big Flamenco Workout 
• Chapter 4---Old-School Fancy: Traditional Ragtime, Jazz, and Hawaiian 
• Lesson 1: Aloha 'Oe 
• Aloha 'Oe 
• Lesson 2: Raggin' on 12th Street 
• Raggin' on 12th Street 
• Lesson 3: A Tune in the Formby Style 
• George on Holiday 
• Lesson 4: Autumn Has Left 
• Autumn Has Left 
• Lesson 5: Has Anybody Seen My Uke? 
• Has Anybody Seen My Uke? 
• Lesson 6: A New Triple Strum from the Islands 
• The Breeze Through the Trees Blows with Ease 
• Chapter 5---Scales and Arpeggios: Positions up the Neck 
• Lesson 1: Major Scale Positions 
• Lesson 2: À La Mode 
• Lesson 3: Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales 
• Lesson 4: Arpeggios 
• Lesson 5: Scale and Arpeggio Practice Ideas 
• Chapter 6---Fingerstyle 
• Lesson 1: House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody) 
• House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody) 
• House of the Rising Sun (Variation 1) 
• House of the Rising Sun (Variation 2) 
• Lesson 2: Cross-String Fingering 
• Lesson 3: Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String) 
• Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String) 
• Lesson 4: Cross-String Rag 
• Cross-String Rag 
• Lesson 5: Miss Mcleod's Reel 
• Miss Mcleod's Reel 
• Chapter 7---Rockin' the Uke 
• Lesson 1: Song for George 
• Song for George 
• Lesson 2: Body Percussion 
• Lesson 3: Funky Funk Strumming 
• Lesson 4: Building a Groove by Layers 
• Gloves Off 
• Chapter 8---Jazz Improvisation 
• Lesson 1: Improvising over Dominant 7th Chords 
• Lesson 2: Improvising over Other Types of 7th Chords 
• Chapter 9---World Rhythms and Scales 
• Lesson 1: Odd Time Signatures 
• Lesson 2: Harmonic Minor and Its Modes 
• Lesson 3: Balkan up the Wrong Tree! 
• Balkan up the Wrong Tree!