Ukulele Exercises For Dummies

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!

Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast! - withhundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunesYou have a ukulele, you know just enough to be dangerous, and nowyou're ready to do something with it. You're in luck: UkuleleExercises For Dummies helps you become a better player.This practice-based book focuses on the skills thatentry-level players often find challenging and provides tipstricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you creatingmusic in no time that include:* Creating rock-steady strumming patterns and rhythms* Becoming a better fingerpicker with patterns, arpeggioexercises, and solo fingerpicking pieces* Expanding your fretboard knowledge and crafting yourown rock, blues and jazz riffs and solos* Playing actual songs on the ukulele - everything fromthe classic ukulele tunes to the 12 bar blues!* Downloadable audio files of the exercises found in thebook, providing you with a self-contained practice packageNo matter if you're a beginning ukulele player or you're wanting tostretch and improve your chops, Ukulele Exercises ForDummies puts you on your way to becoming a ukuleleextraordinaire!

Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Ukulele Exercises 7Chapter 1: Preparing to Practise9Chapter 2: Warming Up for Practice 15Part II: Becoming a Better Strummer 23Chapter 3: Foundations For Strumming 25Chapter 4: Building a Repertoire of Strumming Patterns 33Chapter 5: Taking Strumming Patterns to a Higher Level 55Chapter 6: Refining Advanced Strumming Techniques 73Part III: Becoming a Better Fingerpicker 89Chapter 7: Examining Fingerpicking Technique 91Chapter 8: Developing Rhythmic Fingerpicking Patterns 97Chapter 9: Improving Your Solo Fingerpicking Skills 117Chapter 10: Taking a Deeper Look at Single-Note Fingerpicking Techniques 135Part IV: Mastering the Ukulele Fretboard 151Chapter 11: Learning the Fretboard with Major Scales 153Chapter 12: Taking On Three Minor Scales 177Chapter 13: Commanding the Fretboard with Chords 197Chapter 14: Using Scales to Solo and Improvise 213Part V: The Part of Tens 229Chapter 15: Ten Ways to Improve Your Practice Times 231Chapter 16: Ten Tips for Every Performing Ukulele Player 235