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Advanced Single Note Fingering Drills for Ukulele
Develop you ukulele technique with this advanced single note drills.
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Technique - Fretting Hand
Advanced Single Note Drills
Developing finger strength and independence will allow your to explore your full musical potential. This will able your to explore more challenging musical situations.
To develop this great left hand technique there is a series of graduated drills or finger gymnastics to increase your the comfort zone of usable technique.
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Advanced single note drills for developing finger strength and independence.
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Basic 1234 Finger Drill
Here is an examples from a previous lesson. A four note, single string finger drill played on each string.
Tips and Technique Suggestions
As these drill don't really sound that musical. They can be played while watching TV or riding a stationary bike. Their main goal is to get in a lot of reps and develop you chops.
- Keep your finger tips pointing to the strings. That's their job.
- Keep your finger close to the strings, ready to go. Your fingers need to be over the frets and string that the are going to play. Four fingers can cover four frets.
- Under control and accurate. This is easy to accomplish if you do the drill SLOW.
- If the next note is higher and on the same string. Keep the current finger down. No need to release the string. It is already done and as close as it can be already.
- Do the same drill ascending and descending. 1234 is not 4321 descending. There are 24 distant four four finger possibilities. See the PDF download for all 24.
- Start on different frets.
- Start on string one.
Demonstration of the Advanced Finger Drills
Adjacent String - Two Note Model
In a nut shell I took the basic 1, 2, 3, and 4 note, single string drills and moved one of the notes to another string. Some of these sound really strange and not very musical. But - their intent is to develop the finger strength and independence for more advanced playing. Technique is like money. You want to have more then you'll need to cover a variety of musical situations.
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 | Advanced Single Note Fingering Drills for UkuleleDeveloping finger strength and independence with a series of graduated single string exercises. In this lesson expands basic single string drills using multiple strings. UL15b: Published: January 2, 2005, 12:00 pm | Updated: March 9, 2012, 9:06 am | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
| Basic Single Note Drills for UkuleleBasic one, two, three and four note single string drills for ukulele for developing finger strength and independence. It's critical a player develop the finger strength and independence to explore their full ..... UL15: Published: January 2, 2005, 12:00 pm | Updated: March 14, 2012, 10:38 pm | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
 | Fingerstyle on Ukulele - Single and Multi String ExplorationExploring fingerstyle on ukulele. This lesson covers the common terms used for identifing the fingers used. And, presents a series of single and multi string exercises for exploring and developing the techniques needed ..... UL112a: Published: October 17, 2011, 11:16 pm | Updated: March 12, 2012, 8:13 pm | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
| Four Finger, Single String Gymnastics for UkuleleTo play the ukulele effectively, your fingers need physical strength, agility, flexibility and coordination. This series of drills is designed to get your hands in shape. These exercises work no matter what style of ..... UL08: Published: March 22, 2011, 11:12 pm | Updated: March 12, 2012, 8:19 pm | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
| Ukulele String CombinationsAll posible ukulele string combinations.
These are used to developing your ukulele technique. UL26: Published: March 22, 2012, 10:19 am | Updated: March 22, 2012, 8:41 am | Author: Curt Sheller | ||
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A Guide to Ukulele Chords, 2nd Edition
A Guide to Ukulele Chords, Second Edition is designed as a guide to ukulele chords. Covering the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know. A Guide to Ukulele Chords covers movable chord forms, rock chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and includes an introduction to 4-part, a.k.a jazz chords and more...
From a few core, basic chord shapes and a understanding of how chords are constructed. Your chord vocabulary can be dramatically increased without memorizing countless chord shapes. There are too many chord shapes to memorize.
This book will take the mystery out playing and understanding chords on the ukulele, whether it is a standard, concert, tenor or baritone ukulele in C tuning, low or high string four.
Tunings: C Tunings. Low or high string four variations.
Lefties of the world! Don't feel left out. There is a version for you: A Guide to Ukulele Chords for Lefties
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60321-047-8 Published: November 2011 Pages 50
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Ukulele Chords
This mini (1/2 size) chord books are the perfect size for every ukulele gig bag or case and a great addition to you music book library.
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Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
Seventh chords, Major Sevenths, Minor Sevenths, Diminished, Augmented chords sus and add chords.
Tunings: C with low or high G - (GCEA or gCEA).
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60321-000-3 Published: March 2007 Pages 44
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A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele A to Z
The Blues are at the heart of all American music. It has influenced Country, Rock, Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass and just about every form of American music we listen to today.
Studying the blues chord progressions presented in this book will open a wealth of creative possibilities for exploring chord progressions in all styles of music, not just blues.
This volume covers the key of C major and C minor. Each example includes detailed accompanying text explaining the principles behind each progression and its chord substitutions.
A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele A to Z starts with a basic three chord, 12 bar blues and progresses up to a sophisticated jazz blues with multiple chord substitutions.
All examples are shown in C and G tuning. Suitable for Soprano, concert, tenor and baritone ukuleles. Get through this book and you'll have a solid jazz chord foundation to build on.
Tunings: C and G. Low or high string four variations.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9714044-4-1 Published: March 2005 Pages 80
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A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords - Volume I
Beyond learning basic Ukulele chords most players struggle with advanced chords. Commonly called “jazz” chords, these more sophisticated voicings find a wide use in all forms of music.
A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele presents a highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords. Chord dictionaries are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of Ukulele chord voicings.
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele is your answer.
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ISBN-13: 978-0-9714044-8-9 Published: March 2003 Pages 70
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Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele
Exploring Jazz Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
Building a Solid Jazz Chord Foundation using Seventh, Major Seventh, Major 6, Minor Seventh, Minor Sixth, Diminished Seventh, Minor Seventh Flat Five and Augmented Seventh chords.
Tunings: C and G. Low or high string four variations.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-60321-007-2 Published: January 2007 Pages 52
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The Advanced Guide to Chord Progressions for Ukulele - Volume I
Volume I features the principles of voice leading applied to chord progressions. These principles are explained using chords from volume I of The Advanced Guide to Ukulele Chords. Chapters with common major and minor full diatonic, partial diatonic and chromatic chord progressions are also included to further explore voice leading principles presented in the book.
Tunings: C Tuning with a low or high G - (GCEA or gCEA).
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