Curt Sheller Publications

Cool Videos

Here is a cool video from Jim D'Ville: YouTube - How to Spin A Ukulele

Page Updates and Additions

• (14-May-2008) Updated the Ukulele Lesson Using major triads used to create a melody or solo
• Updated the TAB notation of the solo ukulele arrangement of While My Guitar Gently Weeps
• Added Wolfgang Schneider to the Ukulele Musicians page
• New solo ukulele arrangement posted of the classic Paul McCartney song Yesterday.
• Added Mary J. Martin, Spats White, Tripping Lily and Michael Wagner to the Ukulele Musicians page
• Updated Ukulele Musician Jim D'Ville's listing.
• Added Christopher E. Rooney's Compass Music of Madeira Beach, Florida to the Ukulele Dealers page.
• Updated Cool Ukuleles page with a Mele Double Neck Tenor. There is a link to a YouTube vidoe of Uncle Peter playing the new ukulele.
• A load of changes and several new pages across the whole site
• New DI (direct boxes) page

  If you are running passive pickup on your guitar or ukulele you will need on of these for recording and live work.

• New pickups page
• New pages added to Miscellaneous pages
• Added a bunch of new information pages on programming

  As I dive deeper and deeper in to internal css, html and JavaScript of the site, I've collected a bunch of information, links and resources regarding this topics. As with most other things in the site I format it and place on the web for reference for al and myself.

• New Review pages added to Ukulele Reviews pages for the Pono ukes that I have had.
• Added a FREE play-along track for the jazz/bossa standard The Girl From Ipanema and ukulele TAB for playing the melody.
• Updated a lot to the ukulele scores pages and start a clean up of the lessons pages
• Added new related information to the While My Guitar Gently Weeps ukulele lesson page.

  This is a fun song to play on ukulele. One the simple songs to play along with guitar players. They can solo over the changes using only the A blues and A Pentatonic scales. If a rock guitar player only knows two scales those are probably the ones.

• A load of changes on the Ukulele pages.
• New Ukulele Forums pages.

New Pages Added

• Play-along tracks and charts added to the lessons pages.

  This page contains a series of backing tracks that I had professionally record many moons ago. I'm now releasing some of the with the accompanying lead sheet and other goodies.

Brand new menu system used for navigation. This is an attempt to better organize the site as it has grown to well over 300 pages of content. And, to finally get things working in the ever troubling Window's IE world.

This menu system is Tigra Menu and is JavaScript based and pretty robust. Plus, actually works the same on Macs and Windows.

Page Updates and Additions

• Added The Old Town School of Folk Music of Chicago, IL to the Ukulele Teachers & Schools page.
• Added The Blue Stone Folk School to the Ukulele Teachers & Schools page.
• Added some new quotes to the Favorite Quotes page.
• Added new listings and info to the Classical Guitar page
• Added new listings and info to the ukulele links page

Cool Videos

Made by Hand: Mike DaSilva Ukuleles

Here is a great video by Michael Levin and Witt Monts titled Made by Hand of luthier Mike DaSilva in his show that has been added to the Ukulele Building page and Ukulele Instruments page.

Page Updates and Additions

• Added a bunch of new information pages on programming
• Added Mary J. Martin and Dana McCoy to the Ukulele Musicians pages
• Added a bunch of pages on programming. I hand code the Curt Sheller Publications web site and have been looking into and exploring Ruby and Ruby on Rails for more automation and using a database under the hood.
• Updated styles and under the hood tape and bubble gum that holds the sites together.
• Added 7 string jazz guitarist Tao Højgaard the JazzGuitarResources.com guitarists pages
• Added new listings and info to the ukulele misc page

Been following the sled dog races in Alaska this year. There is the Yukon Quest at 1000 miles that runs between Fairbanks, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada each February. The Iditarod that starts the first weekend in March in Anchorage, Alaska and runs to Nome, Alaska. And, finally the All Alaska Sweepstakes race that is a one-time 100th anniversary race from Nome to Candle, Alaska and back, with an $100,000 winner take all purse. With Lance Mackey winning the Yukon Quest for the last 4 year and the Iditirod race back-to-back this year and last. The All Alaska Sweepstakes should be on hell of a race.

Page Updates and Additions

• Updated and cleaning up of the racewalking pages. I'm back in training and hope to hit a few races this year.
• The "Dominator", Dominic Pieranunzio is the featured musician for March. The Dominator is well known in the ukulele community for his vast collection of ukulele TABS posted to the net for free. Dominic is also a great player I had the pleasure to jam with last October during my trip out west.
• Ukulele News & Forums page.
• Updated the site map page.
• Added some more totally random listings to my Misc page.
• Upgraded sites to Blueprint 0.7.

  Blueprint is a cool css framework that has allowed me to do some cool under the hood coding and finally learn a little about css (Cascading Style Sheets).

  Look for a lot more cool stuff in the future

• Bill Wurtzell added to jazz guitarist pages and updated jazz guitarist - W page on www.JazzGuitarResources.com
• Added a some new listings to the totally random miscellaneous page on www.CurtShelller.com.

Ukulele Chord of the Week 20

The open position G7 chord, the movable form chord and variations based on the open position form. Includes example progressions, chord variations and transposition charts for C and G tuning. on to the lesson...

Only two more chords to go. The diminished and augmented chords.

Be sure to review the previous weeks chords as there has been a few changes and additions.

Videos Posted

Fun with Apple's iMovie

Here is a YouTube video of the book GUIDE TO BLUES CHORD PROGRESSIONS FOR UKULELE A TO Z with recordings of a few of the example progressions in the book.

YouTube: Guide To Blues Chord Progressions For Ukulele A to Z

Here is a YouTube video of the book EXPLORING "JAZZ" CHORDS ON UKULELE with recordings of a few of the example progressions in the book

YouTube: Exploring "Jazz" Chords On Ukulele

Just Jazz Guitar Back Issues

ALL Just Jazz Guitar back issues are $12 each

• JJG45 No. 45 November 2005 - Martin Taylor SOLD $12
• JJG46 No. 46 Feburary 2006 - Wolf Marshall Buy It Now $12
• JJG47 No. 47 May 2006 - Tommy Emmanuel Buy It Now $12
• JJG48 No. 48 August 2006 - Bruce Forman Buy It Now $12
• JJG49 No. 49 November 2006 - Jeff Linksy SOLD $12
• JJG50 No. 50 February 2007 - Henry Johnson Buy It Now $12
• JJG51 No. 51 May 2007 - Lee Ritenour Buy It Now $12
• JJG52 No. 52 August 2007 - Howard Morgen SOLD $12
• JJG53 No. 53 November 2007 - Robin Nolan SOLD $12
• JJG54 No. 54 February 2008 - Andreas Oberg SOLD $12

Jazz Improv Back Issues

ALL Jazz Improv back issues are $20 each

• JI13 Jazz Improv, Volume 1, Number 3 - Pat Martino Buy It Now $20
• JI33 Jazz Improv, Volume 3, Number 4 - Billy Taylor Buy It Now $20
• JI43 Jazz Improv, Volume 4, Number 3 - Art Blakey Buy It Now $20
• JI44 Jazz Improv, Volume 4, Number 4, Summer 2004 - Pat Metheny Buy It Now $20
• JI51 Jazz Improv, Volume 5, Number 1, Autumn 2004 - Dizzy Gillespie Buy It Now $20

H a p p y N e w Y e a r

Page Updates and Additions

• Added Brüko Ukuleles of Germany to Ukulele Instruments page.
• AddedUkulele in the Classroom to the Ukulele Teachers and Ukulele Books sections. This is a new series of books by James Hill and J. Chalmers Doane.
• Added WaverlyStreet Ukuleles to Ukulele Building page under the plans section. They also have completed ukuleles available.
• Added Mark "Spanky" Gutierrez to the Ukulele Musicians page.
• Added Ayers Ukuleles to Ukulele Instruments page. These ukulele are from Ayers Music Co. of Taipei, Taiwan.
• Added Atlanta Guitar Works Guitar Building and Repair Schools
• New links added Luthier Schools And Classes - Misc
• Uku The Mighty added to the Ukulele Links page.

Updated Pages - Ukulele Related

Look for NEW that denotes a new or updated listing on the following pages.

Ukulele Related

• Ukulele Links
• Misc Ukulele Information
• Ukulele Musicians
• Ukulele News & Forums - posted links to creating your own Google and Yahoo ukulele news alerts

Guitar Related

• NEW pages added for random and miscellaneous guitar links

Music Resources

• Tuners and Metronomes - added a few new listings

Miscellaneous Resources

• Alaska - added a few new listings and fun information. I've been tracking the lead up to the Iditarod Sled Dog Race.

New HD Camera

Just in - Canon HV20 HDV camera for creating Guitar and Ukulele online lessons as well as some performances.

The first videos will be a few performances and lessons on using my books.

I'm sharing this camera with my daughter's video production company Abominable Productions. We got this camera so I can use it when they are not using it as a back up.

New Book Owners Goodies

Voice Leading Solutions for The Advanced Guide To Chord Progressions For Ukulele book

Owners of the book The Advanced Guide To Chord Progressions For Ukulele - Volume I can access the voice leading solutions for the progressions in the books. Over the next several months I will be providing the actual voice leading solutions for the progressions in the book. This will allow you to check your progress.

The user name to access the page of solutions is the product code found on the back of the book's cover. The password is the fifth word of the first paragraph of the Introduction on page five of the book.

Featured Musician

Featured Musician for first part of 2008 is Vicoria Vox. I've hear Vicoria several times an she is a real treat to hear. Great voice and travels constantly from Hawaii to NYC. Based out of Baltimore, MD, Victoria hits the road regularly.

Victoria has a new CD coming out soon titled Chameleon. There are samples available online on her MySpace page.

Victoria also has a new songbook out of here original songs for ukulele.

Site Changes

A lot of cool stuff planned for 2008. Getting a video camera for my birthday (jan 2) and plan or recording short video version of the online GuitarLessons, UkuleleLessons and MusicLessons.

Enhanced main site navigation (to the left). With the site containing close to or over 500 pages of content it can, at times even for me, be hard to find things.

FREE Play-along Track MP3

Here is track 12, the Pentatonic Progression-Shuffle from my book QuickStart Chord Progressions for Lead Guitar