Featuring over 1 000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts Mark Kailana Nelson's Mastering Chord Inversions For Ukulele is one of the most comprehensive and useful Ukulele chord booksever published. This book 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. It canhelp 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 chordintervals for major dominant and minor chords in every key. These will help you to visualise how intervals relate to each other. They will also help you play scales and arpeggios and find alternate fingerings for commonchords.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 dominantchords 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 convenientplace.The chord diagrams in Mastering Chord Inversions For Ukulele have the familiar fretboard grid with the lowest fret clearly marked. In addition each note in the chord is labeled to aid you in yourstudy. 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 chordshapes 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

Par MARK KAILANA NELSON. While the 'ukulele is enjoying a well-deserved renaissance on the mainland, in the land of its birth, it has never gone out of style. Hawaiians took to the 'jumping flea' right from the start, creating music of stunning beauty and versatility. Now intermediate players can learn to play lovely finger style solo arrangements of classic Hawaiian songs, folk songs, standards-even a few pieces from the classical guitar repertoire. The book offers 27 arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature playable on any 'ukulele. Songs are grouped according to level of difficulty, starting with simple arrangements well within the grasp of dedicated beginners and intermediate players and leading through more challenging songs featuring unusual chord voicings, inversions up the neck, tricky fingerings and 'all the fun stuff' the author could muster. To aid the student, the companion CD includes all of the songs taught. Includes chord charts, inversion studies, introductory material on finger-picking and making the transition from strumming to melodic playing. / Niveau : Débutant à Intermédiaire / All Styles - Methods / Méthode / Ukulélé Soprano

Par NELSON MARK KAILANA. Put some aloha into your playing with Hawaiian and Polynesian Music for Appalachian Dulcimer! More than just a repertoire collection of classic Pacific island melodies, this book includes the history and background stories of the individual tunes and a brief language pronunciation guide. In addition, the author provides humorous and insightful observations on interpretation, fingerstyle technique, and Hawaiian slack-key guitar style as applied to the mountain dulcimer. Written in standard notation and tablature for the 3-course dulcimer with the 6 or 6½ fret, these fingerstyle arrangements are for intermediate to advanced mountain dulcimer players who are looking for a challenge and want to try something new. These arrangements sound best played fingerstyle, and make use of polyphony, harmonics, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and the sweet chords beloved by Island musicians. Some selections like \'Aloha \'Oe? are instantly recognizable, while others such as \'Wehiwehi \'Oe? or \'Pauoa Liko ka Lehua? may be unfamiliar outside of Hawaii. Includes access to online audio of all 22 examples and melodies in DAD, CGC and DGD tunings. To help the student master these arrangements, the author provides detailed performance notes for each tune. Includes access to online audio.Put some aloha into your playing with Hawaiian and Polynesian Music for Appalachian Dulcimer! More than just a repertoire collection of classic Pacific island melodies, this book includes the history and background stories of the individual tunes and a brief language pronunciation guide. In addition, the author provides humorous and insightful observations on interpretation, fingerstyle technique, and Hawaiian slack-key guitar style as applied to the mountain dulcimer. Written in standard notation and tablature for the 3-course dulcimer with the 6 or 6½ fret, these fingerstyle arrangements are for intermediate to advanced mountain dulcimer players who are looking for a challenge and want to try something new. These arrangements sound best played fingerstyle, and make use of polyphony, harmonics, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and the sweet chords beloved by Island musicians. Some selections like \'Aloha \'Oe? are instantly recognizable, while others such as \'Wehiwehi \'Oe? or \'Pauoa Liko ka Lehua? may be unfamiliar outside of Hawaii. Includes access to online audio of all 22 examples and melodies in DAD, CGC and DGD tunings. To help the student master these arrangements, the author provides detailed performance notes for each tune. Includes access to online audio / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Date parution : 2019-05-27/ Recueil / Dulcimer

Mastering Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar. The Hawaiian word for slack key guitar, k? h??alu, means to ?loosen the key? or retune some of the strings to create a harmonious sound with an open or alternate tuning. Slack key is a fingerpicking style characterized by strong alternating bass lines played with the thumb. While slack key can be played on any guitar, most players prefer a nylon- or steel-stringed acoustic instrument. This book presents 25 intermediate to advanced traditional and original tunes in the Hawaiian slack key style. Melodies are often harmonized in sixths or thirds played with or without double stops. Techniques like syncopated bass lines, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and harmonics are tastefully employed to evoke the images of ocean breezes, swaying palms, hula dancers and white sandy beaches. The author writes, ?Unless you grew up playing slack key, it?s hard to get from the material presented in most books and DVDs to a fluid, play-it-your-own-way style.? This book seeks to reveal the insights the author has gleaned from studying and jamming with some of the giants of the slack key style, and help you develop a style all your own. Includes access to online audio tracks of all 25 relaxing but challenging Hawaiian slack key tunes.

From the author of Mel Bay's best selling Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele and Favorite Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele we are proud to present Fingerstyle Duets for Ukulele. This book and companion audio offer 21great songs arranged in 18 duets for fingerstyle Ukulele. The songs come from around the world: European waltzes classic Hawaiian songs folksongs Victorian parlor pieces and classical guitar and piano transcriptions.Nothing in this book will be out of reach of the advancing beginner or intermediate player. Even advanced players will find something to tickle their fancy. The book includes tips on technique and fingerpicking exercises.Many of the songs include lyrics adding to the flexibility of the arrangements. Included are four etudes - basic duets featuring scaled down melodic parts for the lead Ukulele and simple pattern picking for the accompaniment.More advanced duets feature modulations chord inversions up the neck and different rhythmic approaches for the right hand in both parts. The book concludes with an arrangement of Erik Satie's haunting solo Piano piece Gymnopedie#1. Includes access to online audio.

With Online Audio-From the author of Mel Bay's best-selling book Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele we are proud to present Favorite Fingerstyle Solos For Ukulele. This book and accompanying audio offer a variety offingerstyle solos for the Ukulele. The music stretches across several styles including Hawaiian ragtime bossa nova and classical. The solos progress in difficulty and tips on technique are included along the way. Moreadvanced arrangements introduce chord inversions and different rhythmic approaches for the right hand. Thirty-three arrangements are presented in standard notation and tablature. Transposition charts are included for baritoneukulele. Includes access to online audio.