Understanding Chord Progressions For The Ukulele: Ukulele: Instrumental Tutor

The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use-Take your baritone uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales chord-based licks and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature and played on the accompanying audio. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially toincrease their understanding of the baritone ukulele. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment looping and more.

When you know how chord progressions work it's much easier to learn new songs. When you understand a song's chord structure you're not just memorizing letter names; in fact you can play the tune in any key. Learning howsongs are put together also develops your musical ear and enhances your appreciation of music in general. In this lesson Fred Sokolow draws from several musical genres (rock blues jazz pop and country) to illustratemany standard types of chord movement and song structures. You'll learn about chord families the twelve bar blues circle-of-fifths changes diatonic chord movement and more. Along the way you'll learn how to play and comprehendthe progressions of many classic tunes including Stand By Me I Got Rhythm Your Cheatin' Heart St. Louis Blues Like A Rolling Stone All Of Me Alice's Restaurant Five Foot Two Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone andmore. Fred's easy-going instructional style makes learning easy and many of the musical ideas presented here are written out in tab and music or with diagrams. You're guaranteed to finally understand the circle of fifths which motivates countless songs! 93 minutes - Level 2 - Detailed tab/music PDF file on the DVD. DVD is region 0 playable worldwide.