Ukulele for Guitar Players

 

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Ukulele for Guitar Players

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Author: Curt Sheller
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications - (98 pages)
Published Date: March 1, 2006
ISBN 10: 1-60321-001-6
ISBN 13: 978-1-60321-001-0
Product Code: UKEGTR
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches (coil binding)
Product Web Page: www.curtsheller.com/books/UKEGTR.shtml
Press Release: www.curtsheller.com/UKEGTR/PR_UKEGTR.html

This book is for current and former guitar players discovering the ukulele for the first time or returning to the instrument.

Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar played to the ukulele. Or exploring the possibilities that the ukulele offer. Covers chords, scale and an introduction to reading standard music notation on ukulele.

The ukulele is both a different instrument than the guitar and at the same time a lot like the guitar.

Guitar players that also play the ukulele find that it gives them a different and fresh look at how they also approach the guitar.

Be sure to check out the UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com web site.

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • Ukulele History
  • Common Ukulele Sizes
  • Common Ukulele Tunings
    • “C” Tuning<>
      • C Tuning, High “G”
      • C Tuning, Low “G”
    • “D” Tuning
      • D Tuning, High “A”
      • D Tuning, Low “A”
    • “G” Tuning
      • G Tuning
      • G Tuning, High “D”
      • Summary
  • Open Position Chords
    • The Ukulele Chord Diagram
    • “G” Tuning
      • “G” Tuning Open Position Chords
      • Baritone Ukulele & Guitar
      • Transferring Chords to “G” Tuning
    • “C” Tuning
      • “C” Tuning Open Position Chords
      • “C” Tuning Relative to Guitar
      • Transferring Chords to “C” Tuning
    • “D” Tuning
      • “D” Tuning Open Position Chords
      • “D” Tuning Relative to Guitar
      • Transferring Chords to “D” Tuning
    • Tuning Transposition Chart
    • Transposing Chords
    • Summary
  • Movable Chord Forms
    • “G” Tuning F Movable Form Chords
    • “G” Tuning Bb Movable Form Chords
    • “C” Tuning Bb Movable Form Chords
    • “C” Tuning Eb Movable Form Chords
    • “D” Tuning C Movable Form Chords
    • “D” Tuning F Movable Form Chords
  • Triads
  • 4-Part Jazz Chords
    • Major Triads
    • Minor Triads
    • Diminished Triads
    • Augmented Triads
    • Seventh Chords
  • Scale Interval Formula Chart
  • The Fifteen Major Scales (Keys)
  • Essential Scales
    • The Pentatonic Scale
    • Additional Blues Scale Shapes
    • The Pentatonic Scale
    • Additional Pentatonic Scale Shapes
    • Identifying the Names of the Notes
    • Getting More Information
    • What Are a Scale’s Associated Chords?
    • Blues vs. Minor Pentatonic
    • Expanding the Blues Scale
  • Reading Standard Music Notation
    • Round the Mulberry Bush
    • The Third Uke Man
    • Second Story Uke
  • Learning The Ukulele Fingerboard

Testimonials

(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."

James K. Kroger, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University

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,

Nick (Matty) Matyszczak

JazzGuitarLife.com

(A review of The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1 by Lyle Robinson of JazzGuitarLife) ...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 through. What little chord theory there is throughout the book is 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 beginning Jazz guitar students to start hearing and playing those wonderful voicings that excited us all early on in our development as Jazz guitar players.

“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 Volumes two and three.

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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