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Fretboard Roadmaps - Ukulele: The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use (Fretted) |  | Authors: Jim Beloff, Fred Sokolow
Brand: Hal Leonard
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Pages: 80
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Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 8.8 x 0.5
MPN: 695901
Model: 695901
ISBN: 1423400410
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
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| • | 80 pages | | • | Author: Sokolow Fred | | • | 12" x 9" | | • | ISBN: 1423400410 |
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Product Description
Take your uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales, chord-based licks, and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature and played on the accompanying CD. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the ukulele.
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 19
 Concise and helpful December 5, 2006
Anthroterra
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
Each lesson provides a why, what, how, and do it! (practice portion). This breakdown is very helpful, and knowing the why and what adds that extra motivation for taking the time to learn the more difficult concepts. There are plenty of diagrams and ideas are presented in short paragraphs that make the book easy to navigate. As a patient beginner, I've been impressed by the "tricks" provided here. I would recommend this book more for intermediate players, however, unless you're a beginner accustomed to book learning.
This one's a keeper March 25, 2008
JS22 (Colorado)
33 out of 33 found this review helpful
My experience with beginning ukulele books has been pretty uniformly
disappointing. They all promise to include everything you could
possibly need to know, when in in my experience they have all been
thin, padded with useless filler, and lacking a coherent path to get
from "here" to "there".
This book is a __VERY__ welcome change, and at a sweet price to boot.
To be sure, it is not a beginner's book. The very first song (Sloop
John B.) has a tricky rhythm (e.g., three quarter notes in two beats)
and a shuffle strum with some down strokes missing; as a result,
only about half of the words actually coincide with a strum. This is
not a criticism of the book, just pointing out the level of difficulty
you'll hit in the first few pages. Fortunately for me (an arhythmic
klutz) the focus of the book is on learning the fretboard !
I must say that the CD is a huge help. My beginner's books either had
no CD at all, or the recordings were so dorky that I felt impatient to
move ahead and get to some "real" music. The teacher on this CD,
however, has a very inviting style, and you get the feeling that he
would be a fun person to jam with or watch in performance. A big plus
if your skills require you to listen to the same track over and over
and over...
This book is not about music theory per se, but but rather a practical
framework for learning how to physically hit the right notes; i.e.,
it doesn't attempt to describe *why* you would use a D7b5 chord, but
it helps you develop the skill so that when you have to play one you
know what your various options are and you can get your fingers in the
right place without thinking too much.
I have only completed about half of the book so far. I've learned the
basic movable chord patterns (3 each of major, minor, 7th), and am
starting to practice with them. The songs in this part of the book
take one chord (G major, say) and move it up and down the fretboard
for several measures before changing to a new chord. This kind of
practice is necessary to internalize what you've learned, but the
authors do a nice job of making the practice interesting and fun,
pointing out how to spice up your music rather than just saying
"memorize this" and jumping to a new, disconnected topic.
I look forward to working my way through this book, and I definitely
intend to revisit it again and again. As my title says, it's a
keeper !
Ah, Come On, It's All Here July 10, 2007
Bennie (Los Angeles)
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
Dang if I know what people are lookin for in these here kinds of things. It's all here. I ain't no expert, but I've been playin for a while. This is better than the beggining stuff I bought, and sure if it ain't gonna make me a better player. Everything you need to know is here. And I've bought a lot of these books. You can't do better for what you get for the money.
My last attempt. February 8, 2008
Mr. Peter Durham (Oxfordshire UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I thought that I had seen all that there was to see in respect of Ukulele "How to play books" and have a veritable library of them in my study. Today I can just about struggle through the accompaniment chords to "Way down upon the Swannee River"
However, recently in my Amazon "Suggested items that might interest you" space, appeared the Hal Leonard publication 'UKULELE FRETBOARD ROAD MAPS'. (give that man a raise!) because it is the very best I have seen and if I
am not able to learn from this book, I shall donate my ukes to Oxfam and take up the trombone. At least it isn't possible to play chords on the old slush pump.
Many thanks , Peter Durham.
Well worth a look or twelve! September 24, 2007
A. White (South China)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Hey everyone, kudos to not only Jim Beloff for this book, but also to Amazon for their speedy delivery, which made it all the way from USA to China 3 weeks earlier than Amazon even predicted! As for the book, "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory" that is ukulele! WoW! I am literally amazed at what a difference it has made in my playing so far! I really was one of those players who never got past the 5th fret and knew nothing about moveable chords.... But no longer! I highly reccomend this book to anyone who wants to bring their playing to the next level and beyond!
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