ISBN 9781619118508.

Want to play beautiful Hawaiian melodies on your 'ukulele? Now you can! Learn to Play Slack Key Style 'Ukulele is a comprehensive instruction into the art of playing great solo 'ukulelea\|slack key style. Slack KeyaHo `aluais a melodic, finger-picked guitar style created by Hawaiian paniolo in the mid-19th century, known as aHawaiian soul musica. It is only natural that some 'ukulele players in Hawaii would re-tune their instruments and play slack key style. Nothing sounds so sweet. No matter if you are a dedicated beginner wanting to expand your playing or an advanced uke-a-banger looking for a new challenge, you will find music to delight your fingers and stimulate your ear. Learn to Play Slack Key Style 'Ukulele is both a course of study and a collection of great solo arrangements that start out easy and increase in difficulty. Includes access to online audio.aC/ Tablature and standard notationaC/ Notes on the tunings, reading music and reading TABaC/ Guided lessons help you develop your styleaC/ Graded arrangements from easy to advancedaC/ Over 30 great arrangementsaC/ Learn how to create your own slack key style arrangements of classic Hawaiian songsaC/ Playable on any aukulele with a low G stringaC/ Downloadable musical examples of all songs.

My ukulele has a low G string, and my arrangements are notated using the low G. If your uke has a high G, you can use the exact same fingerings and chords. It will just sound a bit different.

TAB and notation. Check out the music sample if you are unsure of what it entails. Please note that the music samples sometimes do not handle music notation all that well, but your download will look perfectly normal.

The sample is digitally produced. It isn?t very uke-like, but you can get an idea of the arrangement.

My website: www.blevinsmusic.com

My ukulele has a low G string, and my arrangements are notated using the low G. If your uke has a high G, you can use the exact same fingerings and chords. It will just sound a bit different.

TAB and notation. Check out the music sample if you are unsure of what it entails. Please note that the music samples sometimes do not handle music notation all that well, but your download will look perfectly normal.

The sample is digitally produced. It isn?t very uke-like, but you can get an idea of the arrangement.

My website: www.blevinsmusic.com

My ukulele has a low G string, and my arrangements are notated using the low G. If your uke has a high G, you can use the exact same fingerings and chords. It will just sound a bit different.

TAB and notation. Check out the music sample if you are unsure of what it entails. Please note that the music samples sometimes do not handle music notation all that well, but your download will look perfectly normal.

The sample is digitally produced. It isn?t very uke-like, but you can get an idea of the arrangement.

My website: www.blevinsmusic.com

ISBN 9781619114678. With over 1,000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mastering Ukulele Chord Inversions is the most comprehensive and useful ukulele chord book ever published. It includes all the chords you will need for fingerstyle and chord melody arrangements, complex styles like jazz and bossa nova, or simply for tickling your fingers and exercising your brain.This book can help you find any chord, but will also greatly enhance your understanding of how chords work, enabling you to become a better musician.Included are three full-sized fingerboard diagrams showing all of the practical chord intervals for major, dominant and minor chords in every key. These will help you visualize how intervals relate to each other. They will also help you play scales and arpeggios and find alternate fingerings for common chords.Rather than list all the chords of a given type in 12 keys on one page, chords are grouped together by how they are used in a particular key. If you are looking for a G7 chord, you'll find it alongside other dominant chords like G9, G7b9 and G7#5. Chords which serve similar musical roles are grouped together. Likewise, all the various flavors of major chords (6, 6/9, M7, add 2) and minor chords appear together in one convenient place.The chord diagrams have the familiar fretboard grid, with the lowest fret clearly marked. In addition, each note in the chord is labeled to aid you in your study.Each chord appears in several forms that move up the neck. The ukulele's re-entrant tuning requires either doubling or leaving out certain chord notes to accommodate the instrument's four strings. This means chord shapes are not inversions, strictly speaking, but the word is as good as any. Practicing inversions as they move up and down the neck is essential to mastering your ukulele.Alternate fingerings for chords at the lowest position of the neck have also been added.

Song List:

Branle

Allemande

Branle

Quand i?entens le perdu temps

Gaillarde

Tourdion

Bransle De Poictou

Branle

Bransle Haulbaroys

Chi dira mai

Villanesque

Bransle De Poictou

Almande tournée

Vous estes la personne

Branle

Pavane

Branle de Bourgogne I

Branle de Bourgogne III

Gaillarde

Almande le Pied de cheval

Branle gay

Le Branle precedent plus diminue

Gaillarde

Gaillarde

Pimontoyse

Lo, what it is to love

Il estoit une fillette en basse-dance

Ma bouche rit

Contreclare

La Seraphine

Prelude I

Prelude Ii

Fantasie V

Fantasia

Fantasie III

Canon

Fantasie I 

ISBN 9781619113510. This book provides concepts and daily routines to help players gain facility on their instrument by improving technique and avoiding injury. The exercises can be used as a warm-up or as full-speed technical studies. Many of the exercises focus on one hand or the other; others are designed specifically to improve synchronicity between the two hands. It is useful for musicians of any level. The exercises are presented in string numbers, fret numbers and fretboard diagrams rather than standard notation or tab. This book will work for any variety of ukulele-soprano, tenor, concert, baritone, and bass. The exercises are designed for use with a pick but can easily be adapted for fingerstyle players as well.

ISBN 9781609742508. Ideal for the weekend Hawaiian music buff wanting just enough instructions to play a song on the uke, this book includes the basic rudiments to help a beginner learn melodies and then sing and strum away in many different keys. Learn songs in one key using single-string picking, then practice strumming each song in four to six different keys. Ideal for individual or group instruction. Get ready for your next Hawaiian party. With lyrics in native Hawaiian only. These songs will never grow old!

ISBN 9781610659918. Gaspar Sanz (1640 - 1710) is the most famous baroque-period guitarist. His works are tuneful and memorable, with fiery cross-rhythms and cascading scale passages. He published three books of guitar music.The baroque guitar could be viewed as a close relative of the ukulele. Indeed, the two instruments have much in common. The smaller four-course guitar actually had the same tuning as the ukulele, for example, although it was largely double-strung.Sanz enjoyed playing scales in the campanella style, with the notes of a scale set out on different strings, sonically overlapping slightly in the style of little bells. This is a technique the ukulele excels at, and is used to good effect in these arrangements.Sanz music for baroque guitar transfers exceptionally well to the uke, as these arrangements demonstrate. It is hoped that this repertoire will bring a refreshing addition to the repertoire of the ukulele, just as the little instrument can bring a freshness to these old but lively pieces. Online audio available for download.

ISBN 9781609745899. Scales for Soprano Ukulele provides fingering diagrams, construction formulas in whole and half steps (in standard notation) and application (usage) for the most common scales used in improvisation and composition. This easy to read and understand book is packed full of scalar information. Scales are shown with roots on the 4th, 3rd and 2nd strings. Scales and modes shown include Major, Minor, Harmonic Minor, Pentatonic, Dorian, Phrygian, and Mixolydian. Each scale is shown in fretboard diagrams. Can be used with soprano and tenor ukuleles in C tuning, D tuning and Low G tuning. A must have for ukulele players.