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Impromptu Jam - January 30, 2008, Joy Spring. Curt Sheller and Pat Lenz on Dale Unger's American Archtop 7 and 6 string guitars. This was performed at Dale Unger's Nazareth Guitar Institute.

Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords. There are just too many chords shapes too memorize. Learning the principles of how chords are constructed and the ukulele fingerboard are the way to go. Then you can create more advanced chords like 9#11, 7#5-9, 13b5, 7+9 on the fly as needed.

Using a C Blues progressions learn C7, F7 and G7 chord forms.

Using a F Blues progressions learn F7, Bb7 and C7 chord forms.

Using a G Blues progressions learn G7, C7 and D7 chord forms.

Using a G Blues progressions learn G7, C7 and D7 chord forms.

As the name implies this strumming pattern is one quarter note per beat. For songs in common 4/4 time where there are four beats per measure or bar. This is one down stroke per beat.

Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Open Strings. At a minimum you need to know the open strings to tune the ukulele. In C tuning they are G C E A.

The open strings and frets (5) and (7), with only natural notes in C tuning are somewhat easy to memorize. These can be considered Key frets.

Donec ullamcorper nulla non metus auctor fringilla.

A Curt Sheller Trio performance at the Berks Jazz Fest. "Milestones" is a jazz composition written by Miles Davis. It appears on the album of the same name in 1958. It has since become a jazz standard. "Milestones" is the first example of Miles composing in a modal style and experimentation in this piece led to the writing of "So What" from the 1959 album Kind of Blue..

Movable Ukulele Chords - Is a series of lessons presents additional information not in my Ukulele Chords, "C" Tuning book.

Tackling two pesky chords ukulele players struggle with. Open position D and E.

A Curt Sheller Trio performance at the Berks Jazz Fest. My Favorite Things is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music.

Video example for the Ukulele Lesson on the Major Scale.

Example from Learning Ukulele Strums, A Recipe for Success of the Quarter Note Strum. Complete lessons at: LearninUkulele.com.

A Curt Sheller Trio performance at the Berks Jazz Fest. Rain Shine by Chuck Anderson.

A Curt Sheller Trio performance at the Berks Jazz Fest. "Summers Dawn", an original by Curt Sheller.

The seven scale modes on ukulele in open postions with TAB and scale diagrams.

A triplet, as the “tri” in the name implies, means three. It’s the subdivision of the beat into three even parts. Notice that I had used the word three for the number 3 in my writing. So, if I’m counting any beat which can be sub divided by three, it’s 1 2 3. No need to use words such as trip-o-let or one triplet, two triplet, etc to count.