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Ukulele For Dummies


Ukulele For Dummies


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von: Alistair Wood

19,99 €

Verlag: Wiley
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 23.10.2020
ISBN/EAN: 9781119736639
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 336

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<p><b>Strum a tune on your ukulele—no Hawaiian shirt required!</b></p> <p>Picture it now: the sun sets over the shimmering sea, and, as the beach bar falls quiet, you begin strumming Queen Liliuokalani's "Aloha 'Oe" to a mesmerized crowd. ... Okay, while this doesn't happen every day for ukulele-players, you'll still have a lot of fun learning your favorite tunes on your ukulele. Widely associated with Hawaiian music, the ukulele has exploded in popularity in recent years as kids and adults alike have started their music education with a uke or added it to their collection of instruments.</p> <p>Learning to play this versatile instrument is made easier for the experience and inexperienced alike with this new edition of <i>Ukulele For Dummies</i>. Following its straightforward instructions, you'll pick your way from the basics of purchasing your ukulele and accessories to confidently strumming through simple chord progressions and jamming through various styles and standards, including pop, folk, and those much-loved holiday favorites. Aloha, Santa Claus!</p> <ul> <li>Buy the right ukulele for you</li> <li>Perfect your pick and fret</li> <li>Practice with downloadable audio</li> <li>Get the best ukulele apps</li> </ul> <p>Whatever you want from your ukulele adventure—strumming on the beach or adding its island style to your distinctive new pop sound—<i>Ukulele For Dummies</i> will have you making a big splash with this tiny instrument in aloha no time at all!</p>
<p><b>Introduction</b><b> 1</b></p> <p>About This Book 1</p> <p>Foolish Assumptions 2</p> <p>Icons Used in This Book 2</p> <p>Beyond the Book 3</p> <p>Where to Go from Here 3</p> <p><b>Part 1: Getting Started with the Ukulele 5</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 1: Exploring the Ukulele</b><b> 7</b></p> <p>Understanding the Uke’s Advantages 7</p> <p>Loving the sound 8</p> <p>Joining a vibrant community 8</p> <p>Appreciating the uke’s practicality 8</p> <p>Sizing Up the Ukulele 10</p> <p>Meeting the family: Daddy uke, mummy uke, and baby uke 11</p> <p>Deciding which uke is best for you 11</p> <p>Taking a Tour: The Anatomy of the Ukulele 11</p> <p>Becoming a Well-Versed Ukulele Player 15</p> <p>Strumming along to hula in Hawaii 15</p> <p>Swinging and picking across the USA 16</p> <p>Rockin’ and rollin’, and getting down with the blues 17</p> <p>Diversifying into ever more styles 17</p> <p><b>Chapter 2: Tuning Up to Sound Great</b><b> 19</b></p> <p>Knowing Some Musical Terms 20</p> <p>Notes as letters 20</p> <p>Half steps and whole steps 20</p> <p>Chords and scales 21</p> <p>Major and minor 21</p> <p>Pitching into Tuning Basics 22</p> <p>Unravelling Tunings for Your Instrument 22</p> <p>Exploring the most common tuning: gCEA 23</p> <p>Using other tunings 24</p> <p>Choosing a Tuning Method 24</p> <p>Going hi-tech: Tuning with an electronic tuner 25</p> <p>Listening and repeating: Tuning to the audio track 26</p> <p>Stringing along: Tuning to a guitar 26</p> <p>Seeing in black and white: Tuning to a piano or keyboard 26</p> <p>Tuning your uke to itself 27</p> <p><b>Chapter 3: Discovering How to Handle Your Ukulele</b><b> 29</b></p> <p>Holding On to Your Ukulele 29</p> <p>Positioning yourself to play 30</p> <p>Standing up 31</p> <p>Sitting down 31</p> <p>Holding your uke left-handed 32</p> <p>Developing Your Strumming 32</p> <p>Strumming in the right spot 33</p> <p>Strumming in the right way 34</p> <p>Refusing to use a pick! 34</p> <p>Pressing On to Fretting 35</p> <p>Positioning your fretting hand 35</p> <p>Locating where to fret 36</p> <p>Discovering how strongly to fret 36</p> <p>Adjusting when things don’t sound right 37</p> <p>Playing and pain 37</p> <p><b>Part 2: Starting Out with Chords and Strumming 39</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 4: Playing Your First Ukulele Chords and Songs</b><b> 41</b></p> <p>Playing Music without Reading Music 42</p> <p>Reading chord diagrams 42</p> <p>Deciphering chord diagrams for lefties 44</p> <p>Playing a Song Using Two Chords 44</p> <p>Creating a C chord 44</p> <p>Fingering an F chord 45</p> <p>Starting your first song: “Li’l Liza Jane” 46</p> <p>Developing Your First Strumming Patterns 47</p> <p>Using strumming notation 48</p> <p>Filling in with ups and downs 48</p> <p>Finding an easy way to follow rhythms 49</p> <p>Discovering Seventh Chords 51</p> <p>Getting to grips with G7 51</p> <p>Adding the E7 chord 52</p> <p>Taking off with your second song: “I’ll Fly Away” 53</p> <p>Practicing Minor Chords 55</p> <p>Attempting A minor 55</p> <p>Moving on to D minor 56</p> <p>Majoring in E minor 56</p> <p>Playing your first minor-chord song 57</p> <p><b>Chapter 5: Drumming Up More Strumming Patterns</b><b> 59</b></p> <p>Pocketing the Ever-Useful Swiss Army Strum 59</p> <p>Adding Pep with Some Strumming Variations 64</p> <p>Changing chords within bars 64</p> <p>Strumming strongly and weakly 65</p> <p>Introducing the time signature 66</p> <p>Checking out chnks 71</p> <p>Strumming for Various Genres 72</p> <p>Getting down with blues strumming: The shuffle 72</p> <p>Becoming upbeat about the reggae off-beat 73</p> <p>Rocking without strumming 75</p> <p>Rolling your strums 76</p> <p>Deciding on an Appropriate Strumming Pattern 77</p> <p><b>Chapter 6: Meeting the Chords and Their Families</b><b> 79</b></p> <p>Getting to Know Chord Families 79</p> <p>Practicing the Three-Chord Trick: The I–IV–V Progression 80</p> <p>Fingering Barre Chords 82</p> <p>Going flat-out for B flat 82</p> <p>Deciding to play D7 85</p> <p>Playing B minor 85</p> <p>Moving Chord Shapes 87</p> <p>Budging up barre chords 87</p> <p>Discovering new moveable chord shapes 88</p> <p>Inviting Round More Chord Families 92</p> <p>Geeing up the G chord family 93</p> <p>Finding out about the F chord family 94</p> <p>Playing according to the A chord family 94</p> <p>Discovering the D chord family 95</p> <p>Easing the Chord Changes 95</p> <p>Changing D and A the easy way 96</p> <p>Refingering E minor 96</p> <p>Shuffling B7 97</p> <p>Breezing through D7 97</p> <p><b>Part 3: Picking and Single-Note Playing 99</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 7: Coming to Grips with Tabs and Notation</b><b> 101</b></p> <p>Tapping into Tabs 101</p> <p>Stringing notes along in tabs 102</p> <p>Fretting notes in tab 102</p> <p>Sequencing notes in tab 103</p> <p>Playing simultaneous notes in tab 103</p> <p>Chording in tab 104</p> <p>Strumming in tab 104</p> <p>Reading Rhythms 104</p> <p>Splitting into quarter notes 105</p> <p>Holding on for half and whole notes 106</p> <p>Dividing further: Eighth and sixteenth notes 106</p> <p>Dotting and tying notes 107</p> <p>Resting and Repeating 109</p> <p>Taking a rest 109</p> <p>Repeating and repeating 110</p> <p>Putting Everything Together 112</p> <p>Starting with a simple tune 112</p> <p>Moving up the neck 113</p> <p>Shifting positions 113</p> <p><b>Chapter 8: Discovering Fingerpicking Patterns</b><b> 117</b></p> <p>Introducing the Fingerpicking Technique 118</p> <p>Picking Up Some Picking Patterns 120</p> <p>Getting the lowdown on the up pattern 120</p> <p>Rising and falling: The up and down pattern 123</p> <p>Playing all together: The simultaneous picking pattern 123</p> <p>Thumbing around: The alternate picking pattern 125</p> <p><b>Chapter 9: Combining Melodies and Chords When Playing Solo</b><b> 131</b></p> <p>Strumming Melody and Chords Together 131</p> <p>Thumb-strumming the melody 132</p> <p>Using up strums 134</p> <p>Strumming between the melody 134</p> <p>Finger-strumming the melody 137</p> <p>Picking Out Melodies and Chords 139</p> <p>Faking a strum 139</p> <p>Fingerpicking to combine melody and chords 139</p> <p><b>Chapter 10: Picking Up Some Soloing Techniques</b><b> 141</b></p> <p>Getting Articulated on the Frets 141</p> <p>Hammering-on 142</p> <p>Pulling-off 143</p> <p>Sliding between notes 144</p> <p>Bending notes 147</p> <p>Producing vibrato 149</p> <p>Putting everything together 150</p> <p>Picking Your Way to Great Solos 150</p> <p>Being all fingers and thumbs (in a good way!) 151</p> <p>Picking alternately: The running man 151</p> <p>Using a pick 151</p> <p>Strum blocking 152</p> <p>Inventing Solos the Easy Way 153</p> <p>Soloing using chord shapes 153</p> <p>Playing all the chord shapes 153</p> <p>Soloing with scales 154</p> <p><b>Part 4: Discovering Genres and Styles 157</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 11: Rocking Out with Your Uke</b><b> 159</b></p> <p>Rocking Out with Chords 159</p> <p>Keeping it simple: Three-chord punk 160</p> <p>Adding a fourth chord 160</p> <p>Powering up with 5 chords 160</p> <p>Building tension: Suspended chords 161</p> <p>Strumming Rock and Punk Rhythms 162</p> <p>Bo Diddling 162</p> <p>Iggy Popping 163</p> <p>Making Your Uke Talk: Soloing Tips 163</p> <p>Phrasing like speaking 164</p> <p>Articulating questions and answers 164</p> <p>Moving up the fretboard for tension and release 164</p> <p><b>Chapter 12: Playing the Blues to Lift Your Spirits</b><b> 167</b></p> <p>Playing Blues Chord Progressions 168</p> <p>Performing a simple 12-bar blues 168</p> <p>Varying the 12-bar blues 168</p> <p>Shuffling the blues 172</p> <p>Turning the Blues Around 176</p> <p>Leading the Blues 178</p> <p>Soloing with the Blues Scale 179</p> <p>Discovering the first position blues scale 180</p> <p>Using the second position blues scale 180</p> <p>Scaling the heights with solos 181</p> <p><b>Chapter 13: Saying “Aloha” to the Hawaiian Style</b><b> 185</b></p> <p>Strumming in the Hawaiian Way 185</p> <p>Turning Around, Hawaiian-Style 188</p> <p>Progressing to the Hawaiian turnaround 188</p> <p>Soloing the Hawaiian turnaround 189</p> <p>Stretching Out to Play “Alekoki” 190</p> <p><b>Chapter 14: Jazzing Up Your Uke Playing</b><b> 193</b></p> <p>Turning Around, Jazz-Style 193</p> <p>Using Hot Jazzy Chords 195</p> <p>Strumming in That Jazzy Way 196</p> <p>Playing a ragtime tune 196</p> <p>Hitting the split stroke 198</p> <p><b>Chapter 15: Strumming Up the Jawaiian Style</b><b> 201</b></p> <p>Starting Up Some Jawaiian Strumming 202</p> <p>Practicing the touch strum 202</p> <p>Drumming up the thumb ’n’ strum style 203</p> <p>“Jamming” with Bob Marley 205</p> <p><b>Chapter 16: Getting Classy: Classical Masterpieces for Ukulele</b><b> 207</b></p> <p>Strumming Up the Classics 207</p> <p>Picking the Classics — Classical Guitar Pieces for Ukulele 210</p> <p>Playing Campanella Style 213</p> <p><b>Chapter 17: Ukuleleing the Holidays</b><b> 217</b></p> <p>Playing the Twelve Days 217</p> <p>Ringing in the New Year with “Auld Lang Syne” 219</p> <p>Making a Noise with “Silent Night” 220</p> <p><b>Part 5: Buying and Looking After Your Ukulele 223</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 18: Weighing Up Your Options When Buying a Ukulele</b><b> 225</b></p> <p>Buying Your First Uke 225</p> <p>Assessing how much to spend 226</p> <p>Picking a size 226</p> <p>Avoiding problems 227</p> <p>Deciding Where to Buy 227</p> <p>Buying from a shop 227</p> <p>Purchasing online 228</p> <p>Obtaining Your Second (and Third, Fourth, Fifth ) Ukulele 228</p> <p>Thinking about solid versus laminated 229</p> <p>Considering types of wood 229</p> <p>Plugging In: Electric Ukuleles 231</p> <p>Lowering the Tone: Bass Ukuleles 232</p> <p><b>Chapter 19: Splashing Out on Essentials and Accessories</b><b> 233</b></p> <p>Picking the Right Strings 233</p> <p>Getting Hold of Optional Accessories 234</p> <p>Clipping on a tuner 234</p> <p>Bagging a case 235</p> <p>Recording your performance 235</p> <p>Leaving it standing up or hanging down? 236</p> <p>Strapping on your uke 236</p> <p>Capturing the right capo 236</p> <p>Feeling for a pick 237</p> <p>Going Mobile 238</p> <p>Finding uke chords 238</p> <p>Tuning up 238</p> <p>Keeping time with a metronome 239</p> <p>Recording tunes 239</p> <p><b>Chapter 20: Restringing, Maintaining, and Adjusting Your Uke</b><b> 241</b></p> <p>Restringing Your Ukulele 241</p> <p>Deciding when to restring 242</p> <p>Removing the strings 242</p> <p>Tying the strings at the bridge 243</p> <p>Looping the strings round the tuning pegs 245</p> <p>Stretching the strings 246</p> <p>Maintaining Your Ukulele 246</p> <p>Cleaning after playing 247</p> <p>Storing your ukulele 247</p> <p>Tackling humidity 247</p> <p>Diagnosing and Solving Uke Problems 248</p> <p>Adjusting strings that go out of tune 248</p> <p>Deciding that the strings are too high: Lowering the action 248</p> <p>Fixing a buzzing sound: Raising the action 249</p> <p>Fighting against out-of-tune strings high up the fretboard 250</p> <p><b>Part 6: The Part of Tens 251</b></p> <p><b>Chapter 21: Ten Ukulele Players to Know</b><b> 253</b></p> <p>Ernest Ka‘ai (1881–1962) 253</p> <p>May Singhi Breen (1895–1970) 254</p> <p>Roy Smeck (1900–1994) 254</p> <p>George Formby (1904–1961) 255</p> <p>The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (1985–) 255</p> <p>Israel Kamakawiwo‘ole (1959–1997) 256</p> <p>Jake Shimabukuro (1976–) 256</p> <p>Amanda Palmer (1976–) 257</p> <p>James Hill (1980–) 258</p> <p>Zach Condon (1986–) 258</p> <p><b>Chapter 22: Ten Ways to Get Involved in the Ukulele Scene</b><b> 259</b></p> <p>Joining a Ukulele Club 260</p> <p>Visiting a Ukulele Festival 260</p> <p>Making a Video 261</p> <p>Playing Live 261</p> <p>Going Online 262</p> <p>Spreading the Uke News 262</p> <p>Entering a Contest 262</p> <p>Teaching Someone 263</p> <p>Writing Your Own Songs 263</p> <p>Seeing a Show 264</p> <p><b>Chapter 23: Ten (or So) Tips for Improving Your Playing</b><b> 265</b></p> <p>Playing Very Slowly 265</p> <p>Refusing to Rush Things 266</p> <p>Recording Yourself 266</p> <p>Playing with and for Others 267</p> <p>Practicing in Sections 267</p> <p>Knowing When to Stop Practicing 267</p> <p>Stealing from Everyone 268</p> <p>Varying Your Inversions and Verying Your Invarsions 268</p> <p>Opening Your Ears 269</p> <p>Enjoying Yourself 269</p> <p>Busting a Rut 270</p> <p><b>Chapter 24: Ten Greatest Ukulele Chords</b><b> 271</b></p> <p>Invigorating C (with a High Note) 272</p> <p>Shimmering A Minor 7 (High Up) 272</p> <p>Melancholy F Major 7 273</p> <p>Complex G9 273</p> <p>Chilled Out G6 274</p> <p>The “Hawaiian” D7 274</p> <p>Uncomfortable A Augmented 7 275</p> <p>Jazzy C9 276</p> <p>Menacing F Minor 9 276</p> <p>Nostalgic E Diminished 7 277</p> <p><b>Part 7: Appendixes </b><b>279</b></p> <p><b>Appendix A: Chord Charts </b><b>281</b></p> <p><b>Appendix B: Reading Standard Musical Notation</b><b> 285</b></p> <p><b>Appendix C: Audio Tracks</b><b> 291</b></p> <p>Index 297</p>
<p><b>Alistair Wood</b> is a ukulele player, transcriber, and arranger who owns the popular ukulele site ukulelehunt.com. He first picked up a ukulele at the age of 16 and has since been sought out for his ukulele wisdom by <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, the BBC, and many other media outlets.
<ul> <li>Get familiar with chords and strumming patterns</li> <li>Select, maintain, and tune your ukulele</li> <li>Explore musical styles like jazz, blues, and Hawaiian</li> </ul> <p><b>Say a happy aloha to this popular instrument!</b> <p>The ukulele is a fun, versatile, and popular instrument. It's an ideal starting place for inexperienced musicians who want to play some tunes. This friendly, straightforward guide gets you started on the path to confidently jamming in various styles. Written by the teacher behind the top ukulele web site in the world, this book covers choosing and caring for a uke, playing your first chords, and learning some songs that sound great on the ukulele. <p><b>Inside...</b> <ul> <li>Understand ukulele features and terms</li> <li>Get your uke in tune</li> <li>Strum in patterned rhythms</li> <li>Play chords and melody</li> <li>Perform solo with confidence</li> <li>Maintain your instrument</li> <li>Discover ten top ukulele masters</li> </ul>

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