초급, 중급, 상급 이렇게 3권으로 구성된 The Complete Ukulele Method의 합본판입니다.
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초급 - Beginning
이제 우쿨룰레를 시작하는 초급자들을 위한 교본+음원 패키지입니다.
우쿨렐레에 대한 기초 지식, 코드, 스트러밍. 피킹, 기초 음악 이론, 타브악보와 오선악보 읽는 법 등이 소개되어 있습니다.
악기 연주의 폭을 넓히기 원하는 기타리스트들이 참고하기에도 좋습니다.
락, 블루스, 하와이안, 피들, 핑거스타일 등 다양한 스타일의 연습곡들이 실려있으며 함께 제공되는 음원으로 혼자서 공부하기에도 좋습니다.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - Getting Started
Lesson 1: Know Your Uke
Lesson 2: Reading Tablature
Lesson 3: The Notes on the Fretboard

CHAPTER 2 - Strum, Strum, Strum
Lesson 1: Your First Chords
Lesson 2: Changing Chords
Lesson 3: Play Some Real Songs
Lesson 4: Spice Up Your Strumming
Lesson 5: More Chords More Chords
Lesson 6: Minor Chords
Lesson 7: Waltz Time 3/4
Lesson 8: Right-Hand Tools and Techniques

CHAPTER 3 - Reading Standard Music Notation
Lesson 1: The Notes and the Staff
Lesson 2: The Natural Notes on the 3rd and 2nd Strings
Lesson 3: Time
Lesson 4: Rests
Lesson 5: Dotted Half Notes
Lesson 6: Natural Notes on the 1st String
Lesson 7: The C Major Scale
Lesson 8: Eighth Notes (Of Course)
Lesson 9: Dotted Quarter Notes
Lesson 10: Sharps and Flats
Lesson 11: Accidentals in a Key Signature
Lesson 12: Ties
Lesson 13: Navigating a Musical Map

CHAPTER 4 - Theory Without Fear, or a Little Knowledge Can Get You Jamming
Lesson 1: The Major Scale Is Your Measuring Stick
Lesson 2: The Circle of 5ths
Lesson 3: Intervals Are Your Building Blocks
Lesson 4: Harmony and Chords

CHAPTER 5 - Old-Time Ukulele and Backing Up Fiddle Tunes
Lesson 1: Strum Patterns and a Tune in G
Lesson 2: Accenting the Backbeat, the E and E7 Chords, and Sally Ann in A
Lesson 3: Fiddle Tune Form and Soldier's Joy in D

CHAPTER 6 - Old School: The Swingin' Ukulele
Lesson 1: How to Swing
Lesson 2: Sixes and Sevens and Chords
Lesson 3: The Circle of 5ths Progression
Lesson 4: The Triple Strum
Lesson 5: The Triple Burst Strum

CHAPTER 7 - Rocking Out the Uke
Lesson 1: The Syncopated Strum
Lesson 2: Adding Percussion with Mute Strokes
Lesson 3: Moveable Chord Forms, or How I Learned to Be My Own Chord Dictionary
Lesson 4: Using Moveable Chords, Left-Hand Mute Strokes, Reggae, and Soul

CHAPTER 8 - Taking It Home: Island Style
Lesson 1: New Strums

CHAPTER 9 - Ukulele Blues
Lesson 1: The 12-Bar Blues
Lesson 2: Memorizing the 12-Bar Blues
Lesson 3: The Blues Shuffle Rhythm
Lesson 4: The Minor Pentatonic Scale
Lesson 5: Transposition
Lesson 6: Transposing the Blues and the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Lesson 7: Blues in a Minor Key

CHAPTER 10 - Introduction to Fingerstyle
Lesson 1: The Right-Hand Position
Lesson 2: Arpeggio Pattern T-i-m-a
Lesson 3: Middle and Ring Fingers Together
Lesson 4: Fingerpicking in 3/4
Lesson 5: Alternating-Thumb Pattern T-i-T-m

CHAPTER 11 - Getting Ready for the Next Level
Musical Expression

APPENDIX A - How to Practice
Low-G Tuning
How to Practice
Organizing a Practice Session
Buy a Metronome
Conclusion and Resources for Further Study


중급 - Intermediate
초급편에 이은 중급편입니다.
우쿨렐레 연주의 기본이 된 상태에서 다음 단계로 나가기 위한 내용들이 수록되어 있습니다.
이해하기 쉬운 코드 이론에서 시작해서 그루브, 블루스, 멜로디와 코드-멜로디 연주, 그리고 재즈까지 다루고 있습니다.
Amazing Grace와 Greensleeves와 같은 고전들을 멜로디와 코드로 함께 연주하는 방법을 소개하고 펜타토닉 스케일을 사용해서 잼을 하는 방법이 실려있습니다.
우쿨렐레 스트러밍, 핑거스타일이나 피킹과 같은 오른손 테크닉, 해머-온과 풀-오프와 같은 왼손 테크닉, 그리고 음악 이론과 임프로바이징, 연습방법 등이 소개되어 있으며 포크, 하와이안, 락, 블루스, 재즈 등 다양한 스타일의 연습곡들이 함께 실려있습니다.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - The World A'Chording to Uke
Lesson 1: Theory and Major Triad Inversions
Lesson 2: Minor Inversions
Lesson 3: Diminished and Augmented Triads
Lesson 4: Dominant 7th Chords
Lesson 5: Diminished 7th Chords
Lesson 6: I-IV-V Progressions Using Moveable Shapes
Louie's Wild Thing
Lesson 7: I-vi-ii-V
There Must Be Fifty Ways (to Leave the Fifties)
There Must Be Fifty Ways (to Leave the Fifties) in F
Lesson 8: i-VII-VI
All Along the Stairway
All Along the Stairway in D Minor

CHAPTER 2 - Expanding Your Groove Palette
Lesson 1: Groove Concepts
Lesson 2: Rhythms Using Triplets
Lesson 3: 3+3+2
Lesson 4: Split Strum
Lesson 5: Bo Diddley Beat, or Clave
Lesson 6: 3/4 and 6/8 Time Signatures

CHAPTER 3 - Kind of Blue
Lesson 1: 12-Bar Blues
Lesson 2: 16-Bar Blues
Lesson 3: 8-Bar Blues
Lesson 4: Turnarounds
Lesson 5: Circle of 5ths Blues Progressions
Salty Dog Blues
Lesson 6: Jazzin' the Blues
Lesson 7: 16-Bar Ragtime Blues
Alice's Red Hot Electric Rag

CHAPTER 4 - Melodic Playing
Lesson 1: Open-Position Scales
Lesson 2: Playing Melodies
Amazing Grace
Red River Valley
Lesson 3: Scales up the Neck
Lesson 4: Aura Lee
Aura Lee
Lesson 5: Oh! Susanna
Oh! Susanna

CHAPTER 5 - 3rds and 6ths
Lesson 1: 3rds
Ode to Joy (Harmonized in 3rds)
Lesson 2: 6ths
Ode to Joy (Harmonized in 6ths)

CHAPTER 6 - Fingerstyle Uke
Lesson 1: Fingerpicking Patterns
Lesson 2: Alice's Red Hot Electric Rag (Fingerstyle Version)
Alice's Red Hot Electric Rag (Fingerstyle Version)
Lesson 3: Banjo Rolls
Rolling Down That Long Lonesome Road
Lesson 4: Fingerpicking in 3/4 and 6/8 Time
Lesson 5: House of the Rising Uke
House of the Rising Uke

CHAPTER 7 - On the Other Hand: Tricks and Techniques for the Fretting Hand
Lesson 1: Hammer-Ons
Lesson 2: Pull-Offs
Lesson 3: Combining Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs
Lesson 4: Slides
Lesson 5: Bending Strings and Vibrato
Lesson 6: Ashgrove (Using Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs)
Ashgrove
Lesson 7: Sitting on Top of the World (Using Sliding)
Sitting on Top of the World

CHAPTER 8 - Chord-Melody
Lesson 1: Chord-Melody Style
Oh! Susanna (Chord-Melody)
Lesson 2: Amazing Grace (Chord-Melody)
Amazing Grace (Chord-Melody)
Lesson 3: Ashgrove (Chord-Melody)
Ashgrove (Chord-Melody)
Lesson 4: Greensleeves (Chord-Melody)
Greensleeves (Chord-Melody)

CHAPTER 9 - Getting Jazzy
Lesson 1: Everything You Wanted to Know About Jazz
Lesson 2: Has Anybody Seen My Uke? (32-Bar Progression)
Has Anybody Seen My Uke?
Lesson 3: Uke's Got Rhythm Changes
Uke's Got Rhythm
Lesson 4: Gypsy Jazz

CHAPTER 10 - Let's Jam
Lesson 1: Jamming On the Blues!
Lesson 2: Pentatonic Scales
Lesson 3: Soloing Using the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Lesson 4: Soloing Using the Major Pentatonic Scale
Lesson 5: Combining Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, and Blues Scales in a Solo


상급 - Mastering
중급편에 이은 상급편입니다.
우쿨렐레 핑거보드 전체를 사용해서 코드-멜로디 솔로를 만드는 방법을 다루고 있으며 When the Saints Go Marching In과 The Star-Spangled Banner와 같이 잘 알려진 곡들의 솔로 연주를 재미있게 하는 방법이 소개되어 있습니다.
셋잇단음표 스트러밍, 버스트, 스플릿 스트러밍, 팬 스트로크와 같은 수준 높은 테크닉과 함께 올드 스쿨, 랙타임, 하와이안, 핑거스타일, 락, 월드뮤직 리듬 등 다양한 스타일들이 실려있습니다.
락과 펑크 스타일 및 재즈 프로그레션 위에서의 임프로바이즈도 수록되어 있습니다.
숙달된 우쿨렐레 연주자들도 자신의 연주를 더 향상시킬 수 있는 내용들이 실려있습니다.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 - The World A'Chording to Uke
Lesson 1: The Harmonized Major Scale
Lesson 2: Four Types of 7th Chord Inversions
Lesson 3: Major and Minor 6th Inversions
Lesson 4: Suspended Chords
Lesson 5: What Are All Those Other Numbers, Anyway?
Lesson 6: ii-V-I Progression

CHAPTER 2 - Arranging Chord-Melody Style Up the Neck
Lesson 1: Chord Scale
Lesson 2: When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody)
When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody)
Lesson 3: The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody)
The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody)
Lesson 4: Jazzin' the Blues (Chord-Melody)

CHAPTER 3 - Yet More Strums and Techniques
Lesson 1: Reviewing Triples, Bursts, and Split Strums
Lesson 2: The Fan Stroke
Lesson 3: The Fan Stroke Continued
Lesson 4: One-Finger Tremolo
Lesson 5: Rasgueados
Big Flamenco Workout

CHAPTER 4 - Old-School Fancy: Traditional Ragtime, jazz, and Hawaiian
Lesson 1: Aloha 'Oe
Aloha 'Oe
Lesson 2: Raggin'on 12th Street
Raggin'on 12th Street
Lesson 3: A Tune in the Formby Style
George on Holiday
Lesson 4: Autumn Has Left
Autumn Has Left
Lesson 5: Has Anybody Seen My Uke?
Has Anybody Seen My Uke?
Lesson 6: A New Triple Strum from the Islands
The Breeze Through the Trees Blows with Ease

CHAPTER 5 - Scales and Arpeggios: Positions Up the Neck
Lesson 1: Major Scale Positions
Lesson 2: A La Mode
Lesson 3: Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales
Lesson 4: Arpeggios
Lesson 5: Scale and Arpeggio Practice Ideas

CHAPTER 6 - Fingerstyle
Lesson 1: House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody)
House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody)
House of the Rising Sun (Variation 1)
House of the Rising Sun (Variation 2)
Lesson 2: Cross-String Fingering
Lesson 3: Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String)
Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String)
Lesson 4: Cross-String Rag
Cross-String Rag
Lesson 5: Miss McLeod's Reel
Miss McLeod's Reel

CHAPTER 7 - Rockin’ the Uke
Lesson 1: Song for George
Song for George
Lesson 2: Body Percussion
Lesson 3: Funky Funk Strumming
Lesson 4: Building a Groove by Layers
Gloves Off

CHAPTER 8 - Jazz Improvisation
Lesson 1: Improvising over Dominant 7th Chords
Lesson 2: Improvising over Other Types of 7th Chords

CHAPTER 9 - World Rhythms and Scales
Lesson 1: Odd Time Signatures
Lesson 2: Harmonic Minor and Its Modes
Lesson 3: Balkan Up the Wrong Tree!
Balkan Up the Wrong Tree!