Fretboard Roadmaps - Ukulele: The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use by Fred Sokolow | Sheet Music and TAB Instruction Book with Audio | Songbook for Beginners to Advanced Players

by Jim Beloff, Fred Sokolow

(Fretted). Take your uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales, chord-based licks, and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature and played on the accompanying audio. An absolute beginner can follow the diagrams and instruction from the beginning. Intermediate and advanced players can use the chapters non-sequentially to increase their understanding of the ukulele. Audio is accessed online using the unique code in each book and includes PLAYBACK+ tools such as tempo adjustment, looping, and more.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

80 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

Reviews

[Altivo Overo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful information, skillfully presented. The audio examples can be downloaded, or streamed from the web using Hal Leonard's library site with Playback+ (allows you to slow the tempo or shift the key.) The graphical presentation of patterns that repeat on the fretboard is a new and valuable understanding of the ukulele's re-entrant tuning system.

[Rochelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had to give this book a 1 star rating because I just couldn't understand what the author was trying to teach through this book. I am now following Ukulele for absolute beginners, and hope to come back to this book again. If I find it useful the second time around I will amend this rating.

[David]

Should follow this book only if you have the CD

I got this book from the library, but without the CD I think the instructions are a little more difficult to follow. Going to buy this and update the review later.