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Ukulele Blues
Blues Ukulele - There is a whole section of the site dedicated to Blues Ukulele. With player links and information, "jazz" chords, scale, improv, comping, lessons, solo melody and chord arrangements, TABS and more…
Core Chords - Creating the Big Six from F7, 1st Voicing
Lesson Code: UL42a
Published: December 31, 1969
Updated: December 31, 1969
Lesson Info
Taking a movable F7 chord, you can derive each of the 'big six' essential chords. 7, maj7, m7, m7b5, dim7, and aug7.
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Learning The Blues Scale on Ukulele
Lesson Code: UL13
Published: December 31, 1969
Updated: December 31, 1969
Lesson Info
Learn the Blues and Pentatonic scales on ukulele.
A practical approach to learning theses two essential scales using the Blues scale.
Scales like chords, are typically learned as shapes using chord grids, TAB or any number of methods. They show a fingerboard shape, what strings to play and possibly the fingers that are used to play the scale. But what are the names of the notes? What chords can I use them with? You are usually left to fend for yourself.
The five note Major Pentatonic and Blues or Minor Pentatonic scales are two of the most common scales used in contemporary music. This lesson focuses on the blues scale in the common key of D.
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Major Quick Four Progression - Example D.
From the book A Guide to Blues Progressions for Ukulele from A to Z
To break up the monotony of six measures of a I chord when the progression is repeated. A V chord is added to measure twelve turning the progression back to the I chord. A IV chord is added to measure two, returning to the I chord in measure three. This change is often referred to as aQuick Four change. A IV chord can also be added to measure ten.
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Diminished Seventh Passing Chord - Example J
From the book A Guide to Blues Progressions for Ukulele from A to Z.
A common linking substitution is to use a diminished chord as a passing chord on beats three and four of measure six.
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A Guide to Ukulele Chords - 2nd Edition
A Guide to Ukulele Chords is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced “oo-koo-lele”) chords. Covering the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know. A Guide to Ukulele Chords covers movable chord forms, rock chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and includes an introduction to 4-part, a.k.a “jazz” chords and more...
From a few “core, basic chord shapes and a understanding of how chords are constructed. Your chord vocabulary can be dramatically increased without memorizing countless chord shapes. There are too many chord shapes to memorize.
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