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Ukulele Exercises For Dummies

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Ukulele Exercises For Dummies by Alistair Wood and Brett McQueen is a practical guide designed to improve your ukulele skills through targeted exercises. This book covers various techniques, from strumming to fingerpicking, and caters to players of all levels. It's filled with tips and exercises that help enhance your musicality and make your ukulele practice more effective and enjoyable.
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If you're looking to enhance your skills with engaging and enjoyable practice routines, this book might appeal to you. It offers a variety of exercises tailored for all levels, helping to build both technique and confidence, while inspiring creativity with your instrument. Whether you're a beginner or looking to refine your skills, you might find the structured approach both valuable and motivating.

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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.

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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, including:

  • 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!

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781118506851

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Multiple-component retail product, part(s) enclosed

Date Published: 05 April 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Brett McQueen is a musician, songwriter and the founder of ukuleletricks.com, one of the most popular ukulele sites in the world, where he provides audio, video, and written instructional material (along with personalised feedback) to freshly minted ukulele fans everywhere. Alistair Wood is the man (the myth and the legend) behind ukulelehunt.com and the author of Ukulele For Dummies.

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