QuickStart Scale Fingerings for Ukulele Volume I, Key of C Tuning

Six essential scales for advanced ukulele players...

• Blues - (Minor Pentatonic)

  Sample chapter (for Guitar, Ukulele coming soon.)
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• Pentatonic - (Major Pentatonic)
• Mixolydian - (Dominant)
• Dorian - (Minor)
• Aeolian - (Natural Minor)
• Ionian - (Major)

Contents

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Here is a chapter with fingering solutions for the Whole Tone scale. This scale is an essential scale not covered in volume 1.

• The Whole Tone Scale - Fingering solutions for playing this essential scale - "C" tuning, low or high "G"

Information related to the topics in the book.

• 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.

Here is a sample of track 8 the Blues Progression 1 - Shuffle - MP3 Sample File (2:31 2.3MB)

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.

(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.

Regarding the Ukulele Chord and Scale books

... 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

I can highly recommend Curt's Uke books -- I have four of them and they are excelent. fatveg - Portland (4th Peg Ukulele forum)

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

(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.