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Learning Ukulele Strums - A Recipe for Success
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A strum is the execution of a rhythmic pattern - in a specific style at tempo.
Learning Strums, A Receipe for Success covers how to go about learning the various rhythmic patterns that are strums.
Strumming requires a specific set of skills. They are: 1) Memorization of chords 2) The ability to switch chords smoothly and 3) The ability to choose and execute a suitable rhythmic strum.
This series of lesson's focus is on the execution.
Six Essential Scales for Ukulele
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The six essential scale are: Blues, Major Pentatonic, Mixolydian, Dorian, Aeolian, and Ionian.
There are two scales that can be the memorized and all other essential scales referenced from these two. These two scales are the Major and Natural Minor scales. The Major and Natural Minor scales are traditional scales and common scales in all forms of contemporary music. This lesson explores the Major and Natural Minor scales and their derivations.
From these two scales the Blues, Major Pentatonic, Mixolydiand and Dorian scale can be created.
Core Chords - Creating the Big Six from F7, 1st Voicing
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Taking a movable F7 chord, you can derive each of the 'big six' essential chords. 7, maj7, m7, m7b5, dim7, and aug7.
Featured Books 
Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard - C Tuning
Beyond knowing the names of the open strings most ukulele players find it hard to learn the whole fingerboard.
If your goal is to finally learn the names of the notes on the ukulele fingerboard. Then "Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard" is your answer. "Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard - C Tuning" has a step by step approach to finally mastering the ukulele fingerboard. FREE download.
The Blues Scale
Learn to play the Blues scale on ukulele. Available in "C" Tuning. Scale diagrams in the QuickStart format and chords chart for all keys. This book is a FREE download.
Ukulele Chords
NEW This small (1/2 size) chord book is a great little book to carry with you. Ukulele Chords covers basic open position and basic movable form chords. From these two chord categories a variety of songs and styles can be played.
A Guide to Ukulele Chords
This book is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced “oo-koo-lele”) chords. Covering basic ukulele chords that ALL uke players MUST know, movable chord forms, rock uke chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and an introduction to 4-part “jazz” chords and more...
Ukulele For Guitar Players
Ukulele for Guitar Players is a guide to transferring the accumulated experience and knowledge gained as a guitar played to the ukulele.
A Guide to Blues Chord Progressions for Ukulele A to Z
Covers the key of C major and C minor, including a detailed accompanying text explaining the principles behind each progression and the chord substutitions.
Exploring "Jazz" Chords on Ukulele
Exploring "Jazz" Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, The Advanced Guide to Ukelele Chords Series is your answer. Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords. A Guide to Advanced Ukulele Chords Volume I provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
The Advanced Guide to Guitar Chords
Commonly referred to as "jazz" chords this provides detailed information on voicing 4-part chords.
Harmonic Analysis For Scale Selection And Chord Substitution
Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords. It is the process used to analyze the harmonic structure of a progression, song or composition. This analysis is then used to make scale selections for improvisation and chord substitution.
Ukulele - Reading Music Series
Reading Music in Open Position, Single Note Studies- Primer. Reading music is not as hard as one might think. It may be new and unfamiliar to you but is not hard when you have a proper plan of attack.
Featured Song/TAB
Blue Bossa
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Blue Bossa is an instrumental jazz composition by Kenny Dorham (August 30, 1924 – December 5, 1972). It was introduced on Joe Henderson's 1963 album Page One. A blend of hard bop and bossa nova, the tune was possibly influenced by Dorham's visit to the Rio de Janeiro Jazz Festival in 1961. The tune has since been recorded numerous times by different artists, making it a jazz standard.
Includes: Play-along Lead Sheet, Ukulele TAB of Melody, Melody and Chord Ukulele rrangement, example chords and scales for accompanment and improv.
Over 1800 pages of
ukulele, guitar and music content. And 146 lessons for FREE or any donations.
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I've been asked many times about writing and getting a book or books published. My reccommendation is to be your own publisher and self-publish. The profit margins are much, much higher and you can retain control of ALL aspects of getting YOUR book or books out. Unless your goals are to run a large corporation with sales in the millions, and all the headaches that come with that. If not, be your own publisher. You can still grow but on your own terms and time schedule.
In traditional publishing the author gets a small precentage of sales (after freebies and returns). They even get to buy their OWN books at an author discount.
Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack ) where first self-publishers. As a self-publisher (publisher) you take on the production costs, you are responsibile for design, marketing and sales, as well as the associated risks. But - with these risks come the rewards and profits when your are successful. All the profits are yours instead of author royalities. You are also leaving your heirs a tangible asset.
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Curt Sheller Publications can also assist you in all phases of getting your book going. From getting started all the way to marketing, sales, design, production and promotion.
The box said Windows 95 or better. So I go a Mac.
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Be sure to read this article if you are thinking of selling you books through Wal-mat and/or Amazon.
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Self Publishing
Publishing Basics: A Guide for the Small Press and Independent Self Publisher
by Robert Bowie Johnson, JR
RJ Communications
51 East 42nd Street
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New York, NY 10017
phone: 800-621-2556
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Publishing Basics takes all the mystery out of self-publishing and steers you in the right direction. Answers are provided for all the most frequently asked editorial, design, and marketing questions, and more. The Book itself is produced in five 16-page segments, or signatures, using five different kinds of paper and four different printing processes. The same photographs and artwork are printed in each of these five signatures so that the reader can compare the quality of the reproduction of the various printing methods. It also includes an invaluable list of resources.
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There are a bunch of other books on self-publishing, publishing and writing that I have. But, the above books are pretty much all you need to get started. But - with the relative small expense that a book represents you really can't go wrong learning all that you need to learn about being a publisher.
If you feel that you are not a natural writer, like I did, just do it and learn as you go. Pretty much anything that you what to learn about has been written down somewhere. In the Internet age it is a lot easier to find. The information is out there or in a book somewhere. If not write your own book.
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How To Publish and Sell Your Own How-To-Book
John T. Reed
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- Why John T. Reed does not sell his books on Amazon any more
- The Wal-Mart versus Amazon book price war by John T. Reed
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( from listing's site ) - John T. Reed is the author of 31 books and writes a monthly real estate investment newsletter. Reed was a real estate investor for 23 years. He worked as an army officer, real estate agent and as a property manager managing office, industrial, farm, and residential properties. He is the sole writer and publisher of John T. Reed's Real Estate Investor's Monthly. He is also the author of 20 real estate investment books, 9 coaching books, a book on Succeeding, and the book How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Own How-To Book. He is the author of over 5,000 articles that were published in his newsletter, at this Web site, and in publications like Changing Times, American Football Quarterly, American Baseball Coaching Digest, and other periodicals.
How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Own How-To Book is a great book. I bought this book after having self published 20+ plus books and found a lot of valuable information regarding publishing. I've bought each edition, it's that good.
Of all the self-publishing books I have bought over the years. This is by far the best. No BS. This is the book that I recommend to anyone that asks me for advice on getting into publishing.
After reading this book I realized that I am a publisher and a member of the press. Thanks John.
John's comments on why he does not sell book on Amazon.com. I agree, and have never even contemplated selling on Amazon.com, known what cut they want and the cut-throat prices they sell for.
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Home Office
Computers, Software, Postage, a Printer and Binding machine is about all you need to get started.
A web site and email marketing strategy. I really love and recommend MailChimp
I'm totally Mac based and wouldn't recommend anything else. However, you need a PC or one of the virtual software programs to run Windows for checking you web sites look in Internet Explorer.
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Started on Aldus PageMaker and a Mac II, then QuarkXpress and now I use InDesign®, Photoshop®, Illustrator®, Acrobat® software exclusively.
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Released with much fanfare in January of 1984, the Macintosh was the first affordable computer to include a Graphical User Interface. It was built around the new Motorola 68000 chip, which was significantly faster than previous processors, running at 8 MHz. The Mac came in a small beige case with a black and white monitor built in. It came with a keyboard and mouse, and had a floppy drive that took 400k 3.5" disks--the first personal computer to do so. It originally sold for $2,495.
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I use Comcast for my high speed Internet access. I also have used a cheap dial-up access service like (isp.com) in the past for those times Comcast has been down (very, very, very rare) to check orders.
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3000 Hanover Street
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Get a B&W and color laser printer for your publishing business.
I use HP Printers (period)
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