Learn the inner secrets of trick and novelty ukulele playing as well as the basics of advanced jazz-type chord substitution. Add color to your solos with this goldmine of little-known techniques. If you can already pick and strum the basic melody of a song, you can use the ideas in this manual to learn how to express your creativity. How-to instructions include: "wah-wah," chime and bongo effects, vamp runs, multiple tremolos, the rhumbas strum, pencil percussion, the "bend," "two-on-one-uke," speed picking, ukulele electronics, and more. A useful bonus is a 13-page section on basic and advanced chords featuring five to seven different ways to play the same chord up the fretboard.

Matchover Strumming & Picking
Curved Bottom Ukes
Percussion Ukulele
Snare Drum Effect
Mandolin Effect
Bellows Effect
How To Do The "Trill"
How To Do The "Slide"
How To Do The "Wa-Wa" Effect
How To Play The "Chimes"
Playing Behind The Head
How To Do The "Bend"
Thumb Picking
Tremolo Techniques
"Coloring" Your Hawaiian Vamp
How To Pick Hawaiian Vamp Runs
Hawaiian Vamp Runs
How To Do The Two-Beat Pick-Up On The Hawaiian Vamp
The Rhumba Strum
How To Do The Rhumba Strum
Application Of The Rhumba Beat-Picking & Strumming
Application Of Rhumba Strumming
Tuning Your Uke Under Fire
Heeday's "Knuckle-Knock" Strum
Thumb-Knocking For Bongo Effects
Thumb Knock With Strumming
Maracas Effect
Ukulele Electronics
Two-On-One Novelty
Using Your Tape Recorder To Improvise
Adapting To Different Picking Methods
The "Finger Roll Picking (Plucking)"
How To Do The "Slur"
Picking "Hawaiian War Chant"
Hawaiian War Chant
How To Run Scales
Expanding Your Chord "Savvy"
Major Chords
Minor Chords
Dominant Seventh (7th) Chords
Dominant Seventh Chords With Lowered Fifth
Dominant Ninth (9th) Chords
Dominant Seventh Chords With Raised Fifth
Major Seventh Chords
Major Sixth Chords
Minor Seventh Chords
Minor Sixth Chords
Diminished Seventh Chords
Augmented Chords
Major Ninth Chords With 5th Omitted