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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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- Contents -

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