Ukulele Chords
NEW This small (1/2 size) chord book is a great little book to carry with you. Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
A Guide to Ukulele Chords
This book is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced Òoo-koo-leleÓ) chords. Covering basic ukulele chords that ALL uke players MUST know, movable chord forms, rock uke chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and an introduction to 4-part ÒjazzÓ chords and more...
Ukulele For Guitar Players
Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar played to the ukulele.
A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele A to Z
Covers the key of C major and C minor, including a detailed accompanying text explaining the principles behind each progression and the chord substutitions.
Exploring "Jazz" Chords on Ukulele
Exploring "Jazz" Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, The Advanced Guide to Ukelele Chords Series is your answer. Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords. A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords Volume I provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords
Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords this provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
Harmonic Analysis For Scale Selection And Chord Substitution
Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords. It is the process used to analyze the harmonic structure of a progression, song or composition. This analysis is then used to make scale selections for improvisation and chord substitution.
Ukulele - Reading Music Series
Reading Music in Open Position, Single Note Studies- Primer. Reading music is not as hard as one might think. It may be new and unfamiliar to you but is not hard when you have a proper plan of attack.
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QuickStart - Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar - Vol I Book & CD
Author: Curt Sheller
Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications - (32 pages)
Published: 2002
ISBN 10: 1-60321-012-1
ISBN 13: 978-1-60321-012-6
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches (coil binding book & CD)
Product Code: QS1CDB
Product Page: www.curtsheller.com/books/QS1CDB.shtml
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Explore the sounds of six essential scales in lead guitar settings.
FREE - MP3 play-along tracks from the book are available for download below.
Additional play-along tracks based on famous songs are available on the repertoire lessons page.
Each track of this CD is devoted to a scale covered in the QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar book. There are four background tracks for each scale featuring the chords of that scale. These tracks give you the opportunity to explore the sound of the Blues, Pentatoninc, Dorian , Mixolydian, Aeolian and Ionian scales in a lead guitar setting.
The QUICKSTART Rhythm Section CD contains 24 Unique tracks designed for contemporary lead guitar. Six scales, 18 styles and a tempo range of 60 bpm to 148 bpm make this the most vaulable play-along CD you have ever seen. Styles include: Shuffle, 12/8, Light Rock, Rock, Country Shuffle, Easy Rock, Country Rock, Double Time Ballad, Latin Rock, Reggae Shuffle, Double Time, Slow Shuffle, Rock Ballad, Cut Time Bluegrass, Latin, Light Pop, Funk, Reggae.
Melodies, Improvisation, Solos, Lead ...
Whatever you would like to call it is drawn from four sources:
- Scales
- Intervals
- Arpeggios
- Sequences
I'll lump them all under melodies. Whether previously composed or made up on the spot. Mastering these four element of music will improve and expand your pallet of ideas to draw on.
Sample PDF chapter from the book QuickStart Scales for Lead Guitar available below
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Six essential scales for lead guitar
- Blues - (Minor Pentatonic) (
Sample chapter from
QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Lead Guitar book.
FILE: blues.pdf ( 820 KB )
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- Pentatonic - (Major Pentatonic)
- Mixolydian - (Dominant)
- Dorian - (Minor)
- Aeolian - (Natural Minor)
- Ionian - (Major)
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Contents
- Blues Scale Progressions
- 1 - Shuffle - FREE MP3 Track from Book and CD (2:31 2.3MB)
- 2 - 12/8
- 3 - Light Rock
- 4 - Rock
- Pentatonic Scale Progressions
- 1 - Country Shuffle - FREE MP3 Track from Book and CD (2:33 2.9MB)
- 2 - Easy Rock
- 3 - Country Rock
- 4 - Double Time Ballad
- Dorian Scale Progressions
- 1 - Latin Rock
- 2 - Reggae Shuffle
- 3 - Double Time
- 4 - Slow Shuffle
- Mixolydian Scale Progressions
- 1 - Rock
- 2 - Shuffle
- 3 - Rock Ballad
- 4 - Cut Time Bluegrass
- Aeolian Scale Progressions
- 1 - Double Time
- 2 - Light Rock
- 3 - Latin
- 4 - 12/8
- Ionian Scale Progressions
- 1 - Light Pop
- 2 - Shuffle
- 3 - Funk
- 4 - Reggae
Book Changes & Errata file
(on www.CurtSheller.com)
Testimonials
If you ask, "When I'm playing a solo over a jazz song, how do I know which notes work at any point in the song?" then you may want to have a look at this book (Harmonic Anaylsis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution)
You can glean this information from many sources, but this is a pithy, direct approach to the heart of the answer you're looking for. I would also suggest, for a broad, comprehensive, and beautifully written "Bible" on understanding jazz, Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book."
James K. Kroger, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, New Mexico State University
I wanted to pay you a compliment. (Now don’t get a big head!). I have purchased many books over the past 15 years I have been playing and none of them come even close to having the detailed and easy to understand information yours have. I really got a chance to get some practicing in and am finding your books to be such a great learning tool. I also purchased a timer like you suggested and my practice sessions the past 4 days have been my best in years. Take care,
Nick (Matty) Matyszczak
JazzGuitarLife.com
(A review of The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1
by Lyle Robinson of JazzGuitarLife)
...When I received this instructional book for review my first question
was, “where was Curt Sheller when I needed him twenty years ago?” If I
had access to this book early on I would have most likely progressed
quicker than I did, especially when faced with a lead sheet from a fake
book with all those “weird” chord names and alterations.
Sheller’s “The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1”
provides the beginner and intermediate jazz guitar player with the most
common and great sounding chord voicings of all the major, minor,
dominant, augmented and diminished chords plus their alterations: 9, 11,
and 13ths. As well, he discusses the sus, add, and slash theory of such
chord formations.
This is a text that is beautifully laid out and very easy to work
through. What little chord theory there is throughout the book is
clearly explained and doesn’t bog the student down with too much
theoretical discourse. The chord diagrams are clearly defined and there
is no confusion about where fingers should be placed. This is definitely
a book that you can begin utilizing in a practical playing situation
almost immediately. And it’s great for teachers to get their
beginning Jazz guitar students to start hearing and playing those
wonderful voicings that excited us all early on in our development as
Jazz guitar players.
“The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords Vol.1” is a great
beginning for any aspiring Jazz guitarist and I can't wait to check out
Volumes two and three.
Thank you Lyle Robinson
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) ... I was looking for blues chording info but your site came up as jazz chords. I figured soon or later I would need jazzer chords so here I am. Plus nobody else is offering more indepth info on the uke, I liked the scale one the best so far.
Thank you RDGauthier
(Regarding QUICKSTART Scale Fingerings for Ukulele) The ukulele book arrived, it must have been chatting with some Christmas cards somewhere.
The books are great!! I am very happy to wrap the books up, and put them under the tree.
My husband and I are both learning to play ukulele and he is also playing a little bit of guitar. Thanks also for sending the full catalogue. These look like some of the best materials that I have found so far!
Thanks, Laura C.
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Related Book Info
Here is an article titled Getting Beyond Guitar Shapes by Curt Sheller, published in the May 2004 issue of Just Jazz Guitar magazine that utilizes the principles covered in the book The Six Secrets of Guitar Fingering
Note: All principles mentioned in the guitar articles are appropriate for ukulele players as well.
Here is a series of UkuleleLessons in the QuickStart format for the Blues, Whole Tone and Diminished scales
Customers who have purchased the QuickStart Scale Fingering Series of books have also bought the book and CD, QuickStart Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar. This play-along CD also works great for bass, ukulele players and any other single note or chord instrument.
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Here is an article titled Getting Beyond Guitar Shapes by Curt Sheller, published in the May 2004 issue of Just Jazz Guitar magazine that utilizes the priniciples covered in the book The Six Secrets of Guitar Fingering. |
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QuickStart - Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar - Vol I Book & CD
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Harmonic Analysis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution
Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords. It is the process used to analyze the harmonic structure of a progression, song or composition. This analysis is then used to make scale selections for improvisation and chord substitution.
$19.95 - Buy Now
Audio Samples (MP3)
Here is track 8, the Blues Progression-Shuffle from my book QuickStart Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar
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