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!

InhaltsangabeIntroduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Ukulele Exercises 7 Chapter 1: Preparing to Practise9 Chapter 2: Warming Up for Practice 15 Part II: Becoming a Better Strummer 23 Chapter 3: Foundations For Strumming 25 Chapter 4: Building a Repertoire of Strumming Patterns 33 Chapter 5: Taking Strumming Patterns to a Higher Level 55 Chapter 6: Refining Advanced Strumming Techniques 73 Part III: Becoming a Better Fingerpicker 89 Chapter 7: Examining Fingerpicking Technique 91 Chapter 8: Developing Rhythmic Fingerpicking Patterns 97 Chapter 9: Improving Your Solo Fingerpicking Skills 117 Chapter 10: Taking a Deeper Look at Single-Note Fingerpicking Techniques 135 Part IV: Mastering the Ukulele Fretboard 151 Chapter 11: Learning the Fretboard with Major Scales 153 Chapter 12: Taking On Three Minor Scales 177 Chapter 13: Commanding the Fretboard with Chords 197 Chapter 14: Using Scales to Solo and Improvise 213 Part V: The Part of Tens 229 Chapter 15: Ten Ways to Improve Your Practice Times 231 Chapter 16: Ten Tips for Every Performing Ukulele Player 235

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