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Book Review By David Gedge

Ukulele For Guitar Players

Ex-Beatle George Harrison received a gift from his good friend Tom Petty shortly before his death – a ukulele. Paul McCartney also gifted Harrison a ukulele. That’s when I knew ukuleles were going mainstream. No more Don Ho jokes. No more Arthur Godfrey jokes. Ukuleles were cool. Ukulele For Guitar Players by Curt Sheller bets there’s a new wave of guitar players discovering the uke for the first time, or returning to the instrument. Modern virtuosos include Jake Shimabukuro, James Hill, and ukulele jazz legend Lyle Ritz. The book enables guitar players to make the transition to the ukulele by using basic open-position chords, movable-form chords, triads, advanced-jazz chords, and essential scales. An introduction to reading standard music notation on ukulele, Sheller highlights both the similarities and the differences between the instruments. One gets the feeling if George Harrison was still with us, he’d be getting this book as a gift. (illinoisentertainer.com, Posted on March 30th, 2006 in Monthly, Gear)

2007

• Added new solo uke arrangement of While My Guitar Gently Weeps

2006

• Added new solo uke arrangement of Super Mario Bros
• Added new solo uke arrangement of Don't Get Around Much Anymore
• Add a site map
• Added new solo uke arrangement of Walk Don't Run

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