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New Premium Lesson Series for Ukulele and General Music

With the amount of work that goes in to preparing quality material and lessons for the site, I've elected to limit the downloads to active students and site members. Visitors can still view the download file images at a reduces size. Members and Students can view larger on-line images when signed in. The actual download will contain the latest and most updated version of the lesson. Curt

  • Building Your Core Strums for Ukulele - This series explores the common four strums that every ukulele player should know and builds on these to expands you strumming vocabulary to over 70 basic patterns. It all starts with this basic Quarter Note Strum
  • Fingerpicking on Ukulele - Alternating Thumb Style - This series explores fingerpicking styles on ukulele starting with a through look at the Alternating Thumb style. This style was made famous by guitarists Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. You'll find this series of lessons to be the most complete and organized series of lessons offered anywhere, GUARANTEED.
  • Harmonic Analysis - Harmonic Analysis is the process used to determine the harmonic function of chords within a chord progression or song. A chord progression is defined as a sequence of chords, each chord has a root and is a particular chord type. The relationship of a chord's to a scale determines its function within that scale's tonality.
  • QuickStart Chord Progressions - The QUICKSTART Rhythm Section Play-along Tracks are 24 unique styles designed for learning to solo in variety of contemporary styles. Each track is devoted to a scale covered in the QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar (suitable for ANY instrument). There are four background tracks for each scale featuring the chords of the scale. These tracks give you the opportunity to explore the sound of each scale in a lead setting.
  • Core Chords for Ukulele, The Big Six - From four F7 chord voicings or shapes, your can build your massive 4-part, a.k.a., “jazz” chord vocabulary. Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords. There are just too many chords shapes too memorize. Learning the principles of how chords are constructed and the ukulele fingerboard are the way to go. Then you can create more advanced chords like 9#11, 7#5-9, 13b5, 7+9 on the fly as needed.

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