Mastering Chord Inversions for Ukulele (Book)

With over 1,000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mastering Ukulele Chord Inversions is the most comprehensive and useful ukulele chord book ever published. It includes all the chords you will need for fingerstyle and chord melody arrangements, complex styles like jazz and bossa nova, or simply for tickling your fingers and exercising your brain. This book can help you find any chord, but will also greatly enhance your understanding of how chords work, enabling you to become a better m ...more

Product Number:
30481
Format:
Book
Skill Level:
Multiple Levels
Notation Type:
Fretboard Diagram
Pages:
60
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.75 x 11.75
ISBN:
0-7866-8590-5
ISBN13:
978-07866-8590-5
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
10/1/2014

With over 1,000 chord diagrams and 37 full-sized fingerboard charts, Mastering Ukulele Chord Inversions is the most comprehensive and useful ukulele chord book ever published. It includes all the chords you will need for fingerstyle and chord melody arrangements, complex styles like jazz and bossa nova, or simply for tickling your fingers and exercising your brain. This book can help you find any chord, but will also greatly enhance your understanding of how chords work, enabling you to become a better musician. Included are three full-sized fingerboard diagrams showing all of the practical chord intervals for major, dominant and minor chords in every key. These will help you visualize how intervals relate to each other. They will also help you play scales and arpeggios and find alternate fingerings for common chords. Rather than list all the chords of a given type in 12 keys on one page, chords are grouped together by how they are used in a particular key.

If you are looking for a G7 chord, you'll find it alongside other dominant chords like G9, G7b9 and G7#5. Chords which serve similar musical roles are grouped together. Likewise, all the various flavors of major chords (6, 6/9, M7, add 2) and minor chords appear together in one convenient place. The chord diagrams have the familiar fretboard grid, with the lowest fret clearly marked. In addition, each note in the chord is labeled to aid you in your study. Each chord appears in several forms that move up the neck. The ukulele's re-entrant tuning requires either doubling or leaving out certain chord notes to accommodate the instrument's four strings. This means chord shapes are not inversions, strictly speaking, but the word is as good as any. Practicing inversions as they move up and down the neck is essential to mastering your ukulele. Alternate fingerings for chords at the lowest position of the neck have also been added.

How This Book Works 
A Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard 
A Major Chords–Inversions 
A Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
A Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions 
Bf (As) Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard 
Bf Major Chords–Inversions 
Bf Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
Bf Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions 
B Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard 
B Major Chords–Inversions 
B Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
B Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions 
C Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard 
C Major Chords–Inversions 
C Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
C Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions 
Cs (Df) Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
Cs Major Chords–Inversions 
Cs Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
Cs Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
D Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
D Major Chords–Inversions  
D Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
D Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
Ef (Ds) Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
Ef Major Chords–Inversions 
Ef Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions 
Ef Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
E Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard 
E Major Chords–Inversions 
E Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions  
E Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
F Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
F Major Chords–Inversions  
F Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions  
F Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
Fs (Gf) Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
Fs Major Chords–Inversions  
Fs Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions  
Fs Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
G Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
G Major Chords–Inversions  
G Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions  
G Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions 
Af (Gs) Major, Dominant & Minor Chords–Full Fingerboard  
Af Major Chords–Inversions  
Af Dominant 7 Chords–Inversions  
Af Minor and Diminished 7 Chords–Inversions  
Full Fingerboard with All Notes 
A Very Brief Word About Chord Construction  
About the Author  

 
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