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UKEGTR-Ukulele for Guitar Players

 

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Ukulele for Guitar Players

Author: Curt Sheller
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications - (98 pages)
Published: March 2006
ISBN-10: 1-60321-001-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-60321-001-0
Size: 8.5 x 11
Product Code: UKEGTR
Product Page: www.curtsheller.com/books/UKEGTR/index.php

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.

Regarding Ukulele For Guitar Players

Ex-Beatle George Harrison received a gift from his good friend Tom Petty shortly before his death – a ukulele. Paul McCartney also gifted Harrison a ukulele. That’s when I knew ukuleles were going mainstream. No more Don Ho jokes. No more Arthur Godfrey jokes. Ukuleles were cool. Ukulele For Guitar Players by Curt Sheller bets there’s a new wave of guitar players discovering the uke for the first time, or returning to the instrument. Modern virtuosos include Jake Shimabukuro, James Hill, and ukulele jazz legend Lyle Ritz. The book enables guitar players to make the transition to the ukulele by using basic open-position chords, movable-form chords, triads, advanced-jazz chords, and essential scales. An introduction to reading standard music notation on ukulele, Sheller highlights both the similarities and the differences between the instruments. One gets the feeling if George Harrison was still with us, he’d be getting this book as a gift. (illinoisentertainer.com, Posted on March 30th, 2006 in Monthly, Gear)

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  • 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

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Regarding the Ukulele Chord and Scale Books

Folks, if you haven't stopped by Curt's site, do so right now! ..And get his books, they are fantastic. This guy knows his stuff and is able to pass it along too. - - Alan Johnson Proprietor, The 4th Peg

(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 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

I can highly recommend Curt's Uke books -- I have four of them and they are excelent.

fatveg - Portland (4th Peg Ukulele forum)

Thank you Curt,

I bought a ukulele a few months back after stumbling across a few people playing it on YouTube.  I’ve been playing around for a while now, and these books are exactly what I need to bring my technique up a level.  Your website and books are definitely a great resource that I’ll be returning to for ideas and help.

Thanks again,

Jason

“I agree with everybody about just using guitar chords and dropping 2 strings, but I have found Curt Sheller's book "Scale Fingerings for Tenor and Baritone Ukulele" helpful for practicing scales in different modes.” - - dave (davebough, ezFolk Forums)

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

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 Analysis 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

Harmonic Analysis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution.

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:

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

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(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

Ukulele for Guitar Players has it's own web site at: www.UkuleleForGuitarPlayers.com

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Ukulele Chords, Movable Form Chords

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I constantly read online and hear. "Is, where, what site, what software is there for this or that chord or all the chord voicings." Well camper! It's not here. Chord dictionaries, software, web sites are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of chord voicings.

Learning basic open position chords and the basic movable form chords presented in the Chord of the Week Lessons I presented in 2007 will set you up for the more advanced chords, typically called “jazz” chords.

These Movable Form Chords lessons have been updated, enhanced and now reside in the Members Subscription area for all basic and Members.

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