Building a Solid Jazz Chord Foundation for `Ukulele

Pick up any chord dictionary, and one thought that should go through your mind is.

There're a lot different ways to show chord shapes, diagrams and images on a fretted instrument.

Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords.

An alternate approach to determining the chord tones of any chord.

A non-traditional fingering for the G7 chord using the knowledge that the notes of a G7 chord are G B D F.

Cool Chords - These are the chords do not typically show up in chord dictionaries or song books.

A series of weekly ukulele lessons originally presented throughout 2007 on movable ukulele chords as the ** Ukulele Chord of The Week** Series.

Most players struggle with learning the names of the notes of the ukulele fingerboard.

Not all seventh chords are actually "dominant" seventh chords.

Upper Partials or extensions are the 9th, 11th, and 13ths of a chord.

Core Chords is a series of lessons for building your core, essential 4-part chords.

Naturally, for ukulele, all chords need to be voiced using only the four strings available.

Two Feel, bVImaj7 bIImaj7, Basie Ending, Single, Double and Triple Tags, Chromatic, Take 'A' Train Ending, Shave and a Hair Cut, Lawrence Welk Ending.

Introductions are a composed or improvised pieces of music that introduce - sets the stage for - a song or composition.

Alternate fingerings for F7 in C tuning.

Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords.

Wikipedia defines Jazz as a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions.

A chord substitution is when one chord replaces another chord or is used in addition to a current chord.

Transposition is the process of moving a note, chord, scale or any musical passage from one key to another key.

A highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords.

Using a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.

Finally, learn the names of the notes of the fingerboard. - C tuning