Mastering the Ukulele Book & DVD Edited by Daniel Ho

Learn about arranging chord-melody solos using the entire ukulele fretboard, and have fun playing solos of well-known songs like “When the Saints Go Marching In” and “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Techniques like triplet strums, bursts, split strums, and fan strokes are introduced. Explore musical styles such as old school, ragtime, Hawaiian, fingerstyle, and rock—and learn rhythms from around the world.

Have fun rocking, getting funky, and improvising over jazz progressions. Any ukulele player, no matter how advanced, will improve their playing with this book and DVD featuring ukulele star Daniel Ho.

Recipient of “Best in Show” Award at NAMM 2014.

About the Authors

Aloha ‘Oe

Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String)

Autumn Has Left

Balkan up the Wrong Tree!

Big Flamenco Workout

Chapter 1—The World A’Chording to Uke

Chapter 2—Arranging Chord-Melody Style up the Neck

Chapter 3—Yet More Strums and Techniques

Chapter 4—Old-School Fancy: Traditional Ragtime, Jazz, and Hawaiian

Chapter 5—Scales and Arpeggios: Positions up the Neck

Chapter 6—Fingerstyle

Chapter 7—Rockin’ the Uke

Chapter 8—Jazz Improvisation

Chapter 9—World Rhythms and Scales

Cross-String Rag

George on Holiday

Gloves Off

Has Anybody Seen My Uke?

House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody)

House of the Rising Sun (Variation 1)

House of the Rising Sun (Variation 2)

Introduction

Lesson 1: Aloha ‘Oe

Lesson 1: Chord Scale

Lesson 1: House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody)

Lesson 1: Improvising over Dominant 7th Chords

Lesson 1: Major Scale Positions

Lesson 1: Odd Time Signatures

Lesson 1: Reviewing Triples, Bursts, and Split Strums

Lesson 1: Song for George

Lesson 1: The Harmonized Major Scale

Lesson 2: + La Mode

Lesson 2: Body Percussion

Lesson 2: Cross-String Fingering

Lesson 2: Four Types of 7th Chord Inversions

Lesson 2: Harmonic Minor and Its Modes

Lesson 2: Improvising over Other Types of 7th Chords

Lesson 2: Raggin’ on 12th Street

Lesson 2: The Fan Stroke

Lesson 2: When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody)

Lesson 3: A Tune in the Formby Style

Lesson 3: Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String)

Lesson 3: Balkan up the Wrong Tree!

Lesson 3: Funky Funk Strumming

Lesson 3: Major and Minor 6th Inversions

Lesson 3: Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales

Lesson 3: The Fan Stroke Continued

Lesson 3: The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody)

Lesson 4: Arpeggios

Lesson 4: Autumn Has Left

Lesson 4: Building a Groove by Layers

Lesson 4: Cross-String Rag

Lesson 4: Jazzin’ the Blues (Chord-Melody)

Lesson 4: One-Finger Tremolo

Lesson 4: Suspended Chords

Lesson 5: Has Anybody Seen My Uke?

Lesson 5: Miss Mcleod’s Reel

Lesson 5: Rasgueados

Lesson 5: Scale and Arpeggio Practice Ideas

Lesson 5: What Are All Those Other Numbers, Anyway?

Lesson 6: A New Triple Strum from the Islands

Lesson 6: ii-V-I Progression

Miss Mcleod’s Reel

Raggin’ on 12th Street

Song for George

The Breeze Through the Trees Blows with Ease

The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody)

When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody)