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Baritone Ukulele from Scratch Spiral-bound – January 1, 2011
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Table of Contents
Introduction and A Look Ahead
The Baritone Uke and Me
Here We Go
Tuning the Bari-Uke
Holding and Strumming a G chord
Adding the C and D7 chords
The G Chord Family
Major, Minor and Seventh chords
Songs in the Key of G
Beyond the 1 - 4 - 5 chords
The C Chord Family
Songs in the Key of C
The D Chord Family
Songs in the Key of D
Patriotic Interlude (3 keys)
The A Chord Family
Songs in the Key of A
The E Chord Family
Songs in the Key of E
Quiz Time for the Chord Families
Our 5 Chord Families - Summary
The F Chord Family
Songs in the Key of F
Full Arrangements in G and C
You Are My Sunshine
Amazing Grace
Sloop John B.
Morning Has Broken
Five Foot Two
Circle of Fifths
1st Phenomenon
2nd Phenomenon
3rd Phenomenon
Yuletide Backcycling in G and C
Fingerpicking
Arpeggios in 4/4
Arpeggios in 3/4
Travis Picking
Scary Theory Part of the Book
C Major Scale
C Chord Family Up the Neck
The Five C-A-G-E-D Chord Forms
Big Uke/Small Uke: What's the Dif?
G Chord Family Up the Neck
D Chord Family Up the Neck
Our Three Overlapping Keys
A and E Chord Families Up the Neck
Minor Chords Around the Neck
Our Songs All Over the Neck
Amazing Grace (Key of C)
Amazing Grace (Key of D)
Amazing Grace (Key of G)
Morning Has Broken (Key of C)
Auld Lang Syne (Key of D)
Jingle Bells (Key of C)
You Are My Sunshine (Key of D)
Ain't She Sweet (Key of C)
Five Foot Two (Key of C)
Beyond the Major and Minor Chords
G Chord Qualities
C Chord Qualities
D Chord Qualities
A and E Chord Qualities
Diminished Chords/F Chords
Rhythm Changes in C, G and D
America the Beautiful in Three Keys
Minor Keys
Examples in Am, Em and Dm
Intro to Single String Playing
Pentatonic Minor Scale
Twelve-Bar Blues
- Print length100 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCharles Dumont & Sons
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 2011
- Dimensions11 x 9 x 0.25 inches
- ISBN-100978860926
- ISBN-13978-0978860929
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- Publisher : Charles Dumont & Sons (January 1, 2011)
- Language : English
- Spiral-bound : 100 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0978860926
- ISBN-13 : 978-0978860929
- Item Weight : 7.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 11 x 9 x 0.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #100,690 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #23 in Ukulele Songbooks
- #34 in Ukuleles (Books)
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About the author
http://www.skepticalguitarist.com
It occurs to me that you might like to know a little about the real Bruce Emery, beyond the usual glamour, media hype and pop star deification.
Some of my earliest musical memories are of singing with my mom in the car on long trips; she loved to harmonize and she'd get me to sing the melody. She also played a baritone ukulele and would accompany my grandmother's mandolin playing. (Grandma played for dances as a teenager growing up in Sweden.)
I still have that old ukulele. I can remember times when I would sit and gently strum the open strings, gaze through the soundhole at the lighthouse printed on the inside label, then close my eyes and dream of ...world domination...I mean, fluffy puppies gamboling in the grass!...no, really it was world domination. The only thing stopping me was that I wasn't big enough to cross the street by myself.
At the age of nine, I took piano and organ lessons for a while and then moved on to actually playing the stupid ukulele---old songs from the '40s and '50s that I gleaned from my mom's songbooks. The guitar came along at about the age of twelve. I guess I had a few gigs in my "early period," like playing for Christmas parties at school, performing old Smothers Brothers routines in the fourth grade and singing "A Boy Named Sue" at a square dance retreat.
At 15, I started studying classical guitar, and this really turned me on to fingerstyle guitar. But while I loved some of those Villa-Lobos Etudes and Preludes and still do, I was more attuned to popular music, both instrumental and vocal, and I gravitated to the likes of James Taylor, the Beatles, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed and Pierre Bensusan (still my favs). I played at dormitory steak dinners at the University of Maine, at a gin mill in Bly, Oregon, and even on an international television production, "Dick Stacey's Country Music Jamboree," in Bangor, Maine. Well, I say that it was international because the folks up in New Brunswick could pick it up, too.
After pursuing an education in forestry and forest genetics in Maine and North Carolina for ten long years (don't ask), I awoke one morning and decided that I should dump all that and see if I couldn't make a living with the guitar. I had already discovered that I had a flair for teaching recreational dance---swing, waltz, Scandinavian and eastern European---so it wasn't too much of a leap (as it were) to teaching guitar. So I opened the Bruce Emery Guitar Studio in 1986. Just like that.
I suppose my fifteen minutes of fame came in 1988, when I actually played a duet with Chet Atkins himself, at a workshop taught by John Knowles. (We played "Windy and Warm" together.) I currently play an Olson cutaway acoustic guitar, the very instrument, in fact, that James Taylor first tried out and convinced him to have an Olson built for himself. I also have a beautiful Kirk Sand nylon string electric guitar (just like Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed!) and a Lowden steel string (just like Pierre Bensusan!) for open and altered tunings.
I wrote the Skeptical Guitarist books between 1997 and 1999 and figured I was done writing method books. But then I began receiving requests from rank beginners for information that was more basic, something dealing with the mechanics of playing guitar, so I began writing the Scratch series in 2001. In the summer of 2005 I finally cranked out two Christmas books, one for strummers and one for solo players, that had been sitting around on the computer in rough form for nearly a decade.
Take a look at my books, and if you want to know more, find me at http://www.skepticalguitarist.com.
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Pros:
1) the book's quality is good.
2) you get a ton of information.
3) the lessons are laid out clearly and neatly, in a linear way. it's well-written and the author is obviously an expert.
4) it's a pretty fair price for what you get--in my opinion, more info than the standard Hal Leonard books.
Cons:
1) the author insists on filling the text with corny dad jokes...a LOT of them. it's kind of amusing at first...but once you get to page 20 or so, you kinda have had enough of the puns and other cheesy jokes. it's a little distracting.
2) the book doesn't include chord charts. you'll have to buy that separately...i recommend Hal Leonard's "baritone ukulele chord finder", which is cheap and comprehensive.
3) the book is VERY heavy on theory, and not so much on techniques like finger picking, strumming patterns, or other fine things. you get a little of it, but no comprehensive info. so if this book is for a 7 year old, it might get a little boring.
4) you get NO popular songs or pieces. you only get like 3-4 cheapo public domain tunes like Jingle Bells and Auld Lang Syne; as the author explains, "i can't afford to pay anyone to use real songs". now, this wouldn't be a huge problem, but bear in mind: the baritone ukulele is a bit of an obscure instrument, unlike the standard soprano or concert uke. youtube has sort of limited information about song playalongs and other things like that for baritone, so be aware--you're going to have to buy a baritone uke songbook if you want to play songs. or you can spend a bunch of time googling the tabs, which works too.
5) there's sort of limited success using this book in weekly lessons. some parts get a little repetitive and drag a bit, like the part where you're playing Jingle Bells and You Are My Sunshine over...and over....and over....for like 9 pages. if you (or your child) expect rapid progress, this probably isn't the learning aid for you...in which case, Hal Leonard's book is pretty good, because it covers aspects not in this book. again, this book isn't comprehensive. it seems mostly like an introduction to some strumming patterns and theory for baritone uke.
Overall:
I'm about 75% happy with this book. it isn't "bad"...it just doesn't have quite as much comprehensive info as i'd like. on the other hand, it isn't very expensive, and it's positive that the book is written in pretty easy-to-understand language for regular folks.
i could do without the plethora of corny jokes in EVERY paragraph, though. i guess he wanted to make the text friendly and approachable, but tbh, it does get kind of distracting and annoying after awhile.
i don't regret purchasing it, and you probably won't either. just be prepared to purchase supplemental learning materials to go along with it.
I plan rereading this book when I'm finished. I will highly recommend this book to anyone!