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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How This Book Is Organised |
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Part I Introducing Ukulele Basics |
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Part II Starting Out With Chords and Strumming |
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Part III Picking and Single-Note Playing |
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Part IV Discovering Genres and Styles |
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Part V Buying and Looking After Your Ukulele |
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4 | (1) |
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Part I Introducing Ukulele Basics |
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Chapter 1 Exploring the Ukulele |
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Understanding the Uke's Advantages |
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Joining a vibrant community |
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Appreciating the uke's practicality |
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Meeting the family: Daddy uke, mummy uke and baby uke |
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12 | (1) |
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Deciding which uke is best for you |
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13 | (1) |
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Taking a Tour: The Anatomy of the Ukulele |
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Becoming a Well-Versed Ukulele Player |
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Strumming along to hula in Hawaii |
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Swinging and picking across the USA |
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Rockin' and rollin', and getting down with the blues |
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Diversifying into ever more styles |
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Chapter 2 Tuning Up to Sound Great |
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Knowing Some Musical Terms |
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22 | (2) |
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Half steps and whole steps |
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23 | (1) |
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Pitching Into Tuning Basics |
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Unravelling Tunings for Your Instrument |
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Exploring the most common tuning: gCEA |
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Going hi-tech: Tuning with an electronic tuner |
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Listening and repeating: Tuning to the audio track |
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28 | (1) |
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Stringing along: Tuning to a guitar |
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28 | (1) |
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Seeing in black and white: Tuning to a piano or keyboard |
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29 | (1) |
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Tuning your uke to itself |
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29 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Discovering How to Handle Your Ukulele |
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Holding On to Your Ukulele |
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31 | (4) |
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Positioning yourself to play |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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Holding your uke left-handed |
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34 | (1) |
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Developing Your Strumming |
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35 | (2) |
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Strumming in the right spot |
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36 | (1) |
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Strumming in the right way |
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36 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (4) |
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Positioning your fretting hand |
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37 | (2) |
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39 | (1) |
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Discovering how strongly to fret |
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Adjusting when things don't sound right |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (1) |
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Part II Starting Out With Chords and Strumming |
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Chapter 4 Playing Your First Ukulele Chords and Songs |
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43 | (22) |
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Playing Music without Reading Music |
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43 | (3) |
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44 | (2) |
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Deciphering chord diagrams for lefties |
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46 | (1) |
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Playing a Song Using Two Chords |
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46 | (4) |
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47 | (2) |
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Starting your first song: `Li'l Liza Jane' |
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49 | (1) |
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Developing Your First Strumming Patterns |
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50 | (4) |
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Filling in with ups and downs |
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51 | (1) |
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Finding an easy way to follow rhythms |
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52 | (2) |
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54 | (4) |
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54 | (1) |
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Taking off with your second song: `I'll Fly Away' |
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56 | (2) |
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58 | (7) |
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58 | (1) |
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58 | (2) |
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60 | (1) |
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Playing your first minor-chord song |
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61 | (4) |
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Chapter 5 Drumming Up More Strumming Patterns |
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Pocketing the Ever-useful Swiss Army Strum |
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Adding Pep with Some Strumming Variations |
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Changing chords within bars |
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Strumming strongly and weakly |
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Introducing the time signature |
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71 | (5) |
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76 | (2) |
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Strumming for Various Genres |
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78 | (6) |
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Getting down with blues strumming: The shuffle |
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78 | (1) |
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Becoming upbeat about the reggae off-beat |
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79 | (3) |
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Rocking without strumming |
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82 | (2) |
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84 | (1) |
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Deciding on an Appropriate Strumming Pattern |
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84 | (3) |
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Chapter 6 Meeting the Chords and Their Families |
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Getting to Know Chord Families |
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88 | (1) |
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Practising the Three-chord Trick: The I-IV-V Progression |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (7) |
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Going flat-out for B flat |
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91 | (4) |
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97 | (1) |
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97 | (7) |
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Discovering new moveable chord shapes |
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Inviting Round More Chord Families |
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104 | (3) |
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Geeing up the G chord family |
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104 | (1) |
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Finding out about the F chord family |
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105 | (1) |
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Playing according to the A chord family |
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106 | (1) |
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Discovering the D chord family |
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106 | (1) |
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Attempting More Complex Chords |
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107 | (4) |
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Making melancholy minor 7 chords |
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107 | (1) |
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Relaxing with major 7 chords |
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107 | (1) |
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Getting cool with diminished chords |
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108 | (1) |
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Remaining unresolved with suspended chords |
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108 | (3) |
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Part III Picking and Single-Note Playing |
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Chapter 7 Getting to Grips with Tabs and Notation |
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113 | (18) |
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113 | (4) |
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Stringing notes along in tabs |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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Playing simultaneous notes in tab |
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116 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (5) |
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Splitting into quarter notes |
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118 | (1) |
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Holding on for half and whole notes |
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119 | (1) |
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Dividing further: Eighth and sixteenth notes |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (1) |
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122 | (4) |
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123 | (1) |
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Repeating ... and repeating |
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Putting Everything Together |
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126 | (5) |
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Starting with a simple tune |
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126 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (4) |
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Chapter 8 Discovering Fingerpicking Patterns |
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131 | (16) |
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Introducing the Fingerpicking Technique |
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131 | (2) |
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Picking Up Some Picking Patterns |
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133 | (14) |
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Getting the lowdown on the up pattern |
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134 | (2) |
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Rising and falling: The up and down pattern |
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136 | (2) |
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Playing all together: The simultaneous picking pattern |
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138 | (4) |
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Thumbing around: The alternate picking pattern |
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142 | (5) |
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Chapter 9 Combining Melodies and Chords When Playing Solo |
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147 | (10) |
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Strumming Melody and Chords Together |
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147 | (8) |
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Thumb-strumming the melody |
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147 | (3) |
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150 | (1) |
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Strumming between the melody |
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150 | (3) |
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Finger-strumming the melody |
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153 | (2) |
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Picking Out Melodies and Chords |
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155 | (2) |
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Fingerpicking to combine melody and chords |
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Chapter 10 Picking Up Some Soloing Techniques |
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157 | (18) |
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Getting Articulated on the Frets |
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157 | (10) |
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158 | (2) |
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160 | (1) |
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161 | (3) |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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Putting everything together |
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167 | (1) |
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Picking Your Way to Great Solos |
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167 | (3) |
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Being all fingers and thumbs (in a good way!) |
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168 | (1) |
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Picking alternately: The running man |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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Inventing Solos the Easy Way |
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170 | (5) |
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Soloing using chord shapes |
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170 | (1) |
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Playing all the chord shapes |
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171 | (1) |
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172 | (3) |
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Part IV Discovering Genres and Styles |
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175 | (74) |
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Chapter 11 Rocking Out With Your Uke |
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177 | (14) |
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177 | (3) |
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Keeping it simple: Three-chord punk |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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Powering up with 5 chords |
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178 | (1) |
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Building tension: Suspended chords |
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179 | (1) |
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Strumming Rock and Punk Rhythms |
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180 | (2) |
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181 | (1) |
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181 | (1) |
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Riffing Your Way to Rock Heaven |
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182 | (2) |
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182 | (1) |
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Strengthening your single-note riffs |
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182 | (1) |
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Combining chords and single notes |
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183 | (1) |
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Discovering Rock Soloing Techniques |
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184 | (2) |
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184 | (1) |
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Shifting position with slides |
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185 | (1) |
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Making Your Uke Talk: Soloing Tips |
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186 | (5) |
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186 | (1) |
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Articulating questions and answers |
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187 | (1) |
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Moving up the fretboard for tension and release |
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187 | (4) |
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Chapter 12 Playing the Blues to Lift Your Spirits |
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191 | (18) |
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Playing Blues Chord Progressions |
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192 | (8) |
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Performing a simple 12-bar blues |
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192 | (1) |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (4) |
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200 | (2) |
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202 | (2) |
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Soloing with the Blues Scale |
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204 | (5) |
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Discovering the first position blues scale |
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204 | (1) |
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Using the second position blues scale |
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204 | (1) |
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Scaling the heights with solos |
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205 | (4) |
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Chapter 13 Saying `Aloha' to the Hawaiian Style |
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209 | (8) |
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Strumming in the Hawaiian Way |
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209 | (3) |
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Turning Around, Hawaiian-style |
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212 | (3) |
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Progressing to the Hawaiian turnaround |
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212 | (1) |
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Soloing the Hawaiian turnaround |
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213 | (2) |
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Stretching Out to Play `Alekoki' |
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215 | (2) |
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Chapter 14 Jazzing Up Your Uke Playing |
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217 | (10) |
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Turning Around, Jazz-Style |
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218 | (2) |
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220 | (3) |
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220 | (1) |
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Stretching chords even further |
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221 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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Strumming in that Jazzy Way |
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223 | (3) |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (1) |
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Chapter 15 Strumming Up the Jawaiian Style |
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227 | (8) |
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Starting Up Some Jawaiian Strumming |
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228 | (3) |
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Practising the touch strum |
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228 | (2) |
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Drumming up the thumb `n' strum style |
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230 | (1) |
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`Jamming' with Bob Marley |
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231 | (2) |
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Going `One Step Beyond': Skanking |
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233 | (2) |
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Chapter 16 Getting Classy: Classical Masterpieces for Ukulele |
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235 | (14) |
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Conjuring Chords for Classics |
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235 | (3) |
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Strumming Up the Classics |
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238 | (4) |
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Picking the Classics --- Classical Guitar Pieces for Ukulele |
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242 | (3) |
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245 | (4) |
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Part V Buying and Looking After Your Ukulele |
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249 | (28) |
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Chapter 17 Weighing Up Your Options When Buying a Ukulele |
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251 | (8) |
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251 | (2) |
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Assessing how much to spend |
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252 | (1) |
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252 | (1) |
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253 | (1) |
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253 | (2) |
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253 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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Obtaining Your Second (and Third, Fourth, Fifth...) Ukulele |
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255 | (3) |
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Thinking about solid versus laminated |
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255 | (1) |
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Considering types of wood |
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256 | (2) |
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Plugging In: Electric Ukuleles |
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258 | (1) |
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Chapter 18 Splashing Out on Essentials and Accessories |
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259 | (8) |
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Picking the Right Strings |
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259 | (1) |
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Getting Hold of Optional Accessories |
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260 | (4) |
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260 | (1) |
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261 | (1) |
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Recording your performance |
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261 | (1) |
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Leaving it standing up or hanging down? |
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262 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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262 | (1) |
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Feeling for a pick --- if you really must |
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263 | (1) |
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Computing Your Way to Better Playing |
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264 | (3) |
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Keeping time with a metronome |
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264 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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264 | (1) |
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Charting a way to uke chords |
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265 | (1) |
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265 | (1) |
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265 | (1) |
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265 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Restringing, Maintaining and Adjusting Your Uke |
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267 | (10) |
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267 | (6) |
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Deciding when to restring |
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268 | (1) |
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268 | (1) |
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Tying the strings at the bridge |
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269 | (2) |
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Looping the strings round the tuning pegs |
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271 | (1) |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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Diagnosing and Solving Uke Problems |
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274 | (3) |
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Deciding that the strings are too high: Lowering the action |
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274 | (1) |
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Fixing a buzzing sound: Raising the action |
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275 | (1) |
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Fighting against out-of-tune strings high up the fretboard |
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276 | (1) |
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Adjusting strings that go out of tune |
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276 | (1) |
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277 | (20) |
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Chapter 20 Ten (Plus) Ukulele Players to Know |
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279 | (6) |
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279 | (1) |
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May Singhi Breen (1895-1970) |
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280 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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George Formby (1904-1961) |
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281 | (1) |
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The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (1985-) |
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281 | (1) |
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (1959-1997) |
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282 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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283 | (1) |
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284 | (1) |
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Chapter 21 Ten Ways to Get Involved in the Ukulele Scene |
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285 | (6) |
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285 | (1) |
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Visiting a Ukulele Festival |
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286 | (1) |
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286 | (1) |
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287 | (1) |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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289 | (2) |
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Chapter 22 Ten (Or So) Tips for Improving Your Playing |
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291 | (6) |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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292 | (1) |
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Playing With and For Others |
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293 | (1) |
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293 | (1) |
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Knowing When to Stop Practising |
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293 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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Varying Your Inversions and Verying Your Invarsions |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (1) |
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295 | (2) |
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297 | (2) |
| Appendix A Chord Charts |
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299 | (4) |
| Appendix B Reading Standard Musical Notation |
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303 | (12) |
| Appendix C Audio Tracks |
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315 | (8) |
| Index |
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