Ukulele Fretboard Roadmaps: The Essential Patterns that All the Pros Know and Use

-CD includes 59 demonstrations and play-along tracks.
-Strum backup chords anywhere on 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
-Know your way around the fretboard, the way the pros do-each chapter presents a pattern and shows how to use it, along with playing tips and uke insights.

Tones 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 instructions from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequencially to increase their understanding of the ukelele.

CONTENIDO:

Introduction
Preliminaries: tuning, strumming patterns, picking patterns, first position chords, strumming some simple tunes

#1 Notes on the fretboard: tips on how to learn them
#2 The major scale: understanding intervals
#3 The moveable D formation and its variations: vary this chord shaè to make dozens of chords
#4 The moveable G formation and its variations: vary this chord shaè to make dozens of chords
#5 The moveable B formation and its variations: vary this chord shaè to make dozens of chords
#6 The G-D-B roadmap: using three major chord fragments to play all over the fretboard
#7 Chord fragment/chord families: understanding chord progressiones and chord-based soloing ideas
#8 Chord soloing: chord-based melody playing
#9 First position major scales: playing melodies and licks in F, C, G, D, A and E, and adding blue notes
#10 Four moveable major scales: scales that match the cord formations - playing melodies and improvising
#11 The circle of fifths: how to play circle-of-fifths progressions
#12 Minor pentatonic scales (the blues box): another single-note soloing device

Tuning conversions: how to play in D6 tuning, baritone tuning and more
Using the practice tracks
Chord dictionary
Listening suggestions
Notation legend
Track list/song index
About the authors