QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Ukulele Volume I, Key of C Tuning
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QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Ukulele, Volume I, Key of “C” Tuning
Author: Curt Sheller
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications - (98 pages)
ISBN-10: 0-9714044-6-1 Published: September 2003
ISBN-13: 978-0-9714044-6-5
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches (coil binding)
Product Code: QS1UKES
Press Release: www.curtsheller.com/QS1UKES/PR_QS1UKES.html
Learn to create exciting solos in a variety of contemporary styles!
Scales are used to improvise, create melodies and riffs. With a broad knowledge of the essential scales that are used in contemporary music and a mastery of the ukulele's fingerboard and fingering principles you're well on your way.
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Master these fingerings and unlock your potential as a ukulele player!
Melodies, Improvisation, Solos, Lead ...
Whatever you would like to call it is drawn from four sources:
- Scales
- Intervals
- Arpeggios
- Sequences
I'll lump them all under melodies. Whether previously composed or made up on the spot. Mastering these four element of music will improve and expand your pallet of ideas to draw on.
QUICKSTART - Scale Fingerings for Ukulele
Available for Standard Soprano, Concert and Tenor ukuleles tuned to (G C E A) Key of "C" tuning and Tenor and Baritone ukuleles tuned to (D G B E) Key of "G" tuning.
QUICKSTART - Scale Fingerings for Ukulele is a concise, well organized book ideal for any ukulele player beginning to explore improvisation. Scale Fingerings for Ukulele keeps a sharp focus on six critical scales, their fingerings and their related chords. All material is covered in every key.
Whether your interest is in Blues, Rock, Jazz, Country or somewhere in between Scale Fingerings for Ukulele is a valuable addition to your musical library.
Introduction
QUICKSTART - Scale Fingerings for Ukulele is a highly organized, efficient system of scale fingerings. Each fingering pattern is shown with a fingerboard shape, TAB and standard music notation. Related chords are also explained for each scale.
Master these fingerings and unlock your potential as a ukulele player.
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Contents
Six essential scales for advanced ukulele players...
- Blues - (Minor Pentatonic)
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- Pentatonic - (Major Pentatonic)
- Mixolydian - (Dominant)
- Dorian - (Minor)
- Aeolian - (Natural Minor)
- Ionian - (Major)
- Forward
- Introduction
- Scales-Chords-Progressions
- Blues Scales
- Shapes
- Chords
- Pentatonic Scales
- Shapes
- Chords
- Dorian Scales
- Shapes
- Chords
- Mixolydian Scales
- Shapes
- Chords
- Aeolian Scales
- Shapes
- Chords
- Ionian Scales
- Shapes
- Chords
- Blues Scales
- Additional Info
- Practice Tips
- Final Thoughts
Book Changes & Errata file
(on www.CurtSheller.com)
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Here is a chapter with fingering solutions for the Whole Tone scale. This scale is an essential scale not covered in volume 1.
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The Whole Tone Scale - Fingering solutions for playing this essential scale - "C" tuning, low or high "G"
Related Book Info
Information related to the topics and principles and information in the book.
Here is an article titled Getting Beyond Guitar Shapes by Curt Sheller, published in the May 2004 issue of Just Jazz Guitar magazine that utilizes the principles covered in the book The Six Secrets of Guitar Fingering
Note: All principles mentioned in the guitar articles are appropriate for ukulele players as well.
Here is a series of UkuleleLessons in the QuickStart format for the Blues, Whole Tone and Diminished scales
Customers who have purchased the QuickStart Scale Fingering Series of books have also bought the book and CD, QuickStart Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar. This play-along CD also works great for bass, ukulele players and any other single note or chord instrument.
Here is a sample of track 8 the Blues Progression 1 - Shuffle - MP3 Sample File (2:31 2.3MB)
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Here is an article titled Getting Beyond Guitar Shapes by Curt Sheller, published in the May 2004 issue of Just Jazz Guitar magazine that utilizes the principles covered in the book The Six Secrets of Guitar Fingering. |
Related Book Info
Books related to the topics and principles and information in the book.
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(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) ... I was looking for blues chording info but your site came up as jazz chords. I figured soon or later I would need jazzer chords so here I am. Plus nobody else is offering more indepth info on the uke, I liked the scale one the best so far. Thank you RDGauthier
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) The ukulele book arrived, it must have been chatting with some Christmas cards somewhere.
The books are great!! I am very happy to wrap the books up, and put them under the tree.
My husband and I are both learning to play ukulele and he is also playing a little bit of guitar. Thanks also for sending the full catalogue. These look like some of the best materials that I have found so far! Thanks, Laura C.
Regarding the Ukulele Chord and Scale books
... I was looking for blues chording info but your site came up as jazz chords. I figured soon or later I would need jazzer chords so here I am. Plus nobody else is offering more indepth info on the uke, I liked the scale one the best so far. Thank you RDGauthier
I can highly recommend Curt's Uke books -- I have four of them and they are excelent. fatveg - Portland (4th Peg Ukulele forum)
If you ask, "When I'm playing a solo over a jazz song, how do I know which notes work at any point in the song?" then you may want to have a look at this book (Harmonic Anaylsis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution)
You can glean this information from many sources, but this is a pithy, direct approach to the heart of the answer you're looking for. I would also suggest, for a broad, comprehensive, and beautifully written "Bible" on understanding jazz, Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book."
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I wanted to pay you a compliment. (Now don’t get a big head!). I have purchased many books over the past 15 years I have been playing and none of them come even close to having the detailed and easy to understand information yours have. I really got a chance to get some practicing in and am finding your books to be such a great learning tool. I also purchased a timer like you suggested and my practice sessions the past 4 days have been my best in years. Take care,
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...When I received this instructional book for review my first question
was, “where was Curt Sheller when I needed him twenty years ago?” If I
had access to this book early on I would have most likely progressed
quicker than I did, especially when faced with a lead sheet from a fake
book with all those “weird” chord names and alterations.
Sheller’s “The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1”
provides the beginner and intermediate jazz guitar player with the most
common and great sounding chord voicings of all the major, minor,
dominant, augmented and diminished chords plus their alterations: 9, 11,
and 13ths. As well, he discusses the sus, add, and slash theory of such
chord formations.
This is a text that is beautifully laid out and very easy to work
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clearly explained and doesn’t bog the student down with too much
theoretical discourse. The chord diagrams are clearly defined and there
is no confusion about where fingers should be placed. This is definitely
a book that you can begin utilizing in a practical playing situation
almost immediately. And it’s great for teachers to get their
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“The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1” is a great
beginning for any aspiring Jazz guitarist and I can't wait to check out
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Thank you Lyle Robinson
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) ... I was looking for blues chording info but your site came up as jazz chords. I figured soon or later I would need jazzer chords so here I am. Plus nobody else is offering more indepth info on the uke, I liked the scale one the best so far.
Thank you RDGauthier
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) The ukulele book arrived, it must have been chatting with some Christmas cards somewhere.
The books are great!! I am very happy to wrap the books up, and put them under the tree.
My husband and I are both learning to play ukulele and he is also playing a little bit of guitar. Thanks also for sending the full catalogue. These look like some of the best materials that I have found so far!
Thanks, Laura C.
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