Ukulele Exercises for Dummies

By Alistair Wood and Brett McQueen

Book Overview

Take your ukulele playing to the next level - fast - with hundreds of fun exercises, drills and practice tunes You have a ukulele, you know just enough to be dangerous, and now you're ready to do something with it. You're in luck: Ukulele Exercises For Dummies helps you become a better player. This practice-based book focuses on the skills that entry-level players often find challenging and provides tips, tricks and plenty of cool exercises that will have you creating music in no time that include: - Creating rock-steady strumming patterns and rhythms - Becoming a better fingerpicker with patterns, arpeggio exercises, and solo fingerpicking pieces - Expanding your fretboard knowledge and crafting your own rock, blues and jazz riffs and solos - Playing actual songs on the ukulele - everything from the classic ukulele tunes to the 12 bar blues - Downloadable audio files of the exercises found in the book, providing you with a self-contained practice package No matter if you're a beginning ukulele player or you're wanting to stretch and improve your chops, Ukulele Exercises For Dummies puts you on your way to becoming a ukulele extraordinaire

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118506855
• ISBN13: 9781118506851
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.1" x 10.6"