Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele, C-Tuning: Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now! (Teach Yourself Series)

Manus, Morton; Manus, Ron

ISBN 10: 0739063405 / ISBN 13: 9780739063408

Editore: Alfred Music, 1995

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Titolo: Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele, ...

Casa editrice: Alfred Music

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: paperback

Condizione: Good

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Riassunto:

Learn to play the ukulele and open up a brand new world of musical knowledge with this exciting method from Alfred. Beginners of all ages can start their journey to a lifetime of musical enjoyment. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn about the history of the ukulele, its components, how to hold and tune it, and getting acquainted with standard musical notation. You will then move right along to playing different notes, chords, scales, and songs, lesson by lesson, all while continuing to increase your ever-growing knowledge of reading and understanding standard musical notation and playing a variety of well-known songs. You will learn different strumming techniques to help you play in a variety of musical styles. The book also contains a section teaching you how to play by ear. Upon completion of the book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key and know how to read music.

The book features the following resources for reference during and after your lessons:
* Transposition chart
* Dictionary of tablature techniques
* Ukulele fingerboard chart
* Complete ukulele chord dictionary

This book teaches entirely in C tuning. The D tuning edition of Alfred's Teach Yourself to Play Ukulele (item 14135) is available from your favorite music retailer and at Alfred.com.

Be your own teacher, and let Alfred be your resource every step of the way.

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This book will teach you how to play the C-tuned ukulele with an easy-to-follow approach that will have you making music instantly. Learn the strumming techniques that will help you play in styles such as folk, blues, and country. Play great songs like "This Land Is Your Land," "When the Saints Go Marching In," "St. Louis Blues," and many others. A special section on playing by ear teaches how to figure out your favorite songs, and a handy chart shows how to transpose any song to the key of your choice. Upon completion of this book, you will be able to play your favorite songs on the ukulele in any key.