Maybe I’m wrong, but I believe that the greater majority of Ukulele enthusiasts probably never think in terms of chord functionality. I also believe that some of you may also be like me when I was learning - curious about why certain chords go where they do. If you’re that person, the diminished chord probably has you a bit baffled. Here’s a quick explanation on diminished functionality!
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The Christmas Song (instrumental)
Here’s a fun instrumental to get under your fingers! Kinda long lesson, but you have plenty of time to learn it by Christmas. Here’s the Nat King Cole Classic, the Christmas Song. There are a lot of versions out there, but I figured this would be a fun one for you folks!
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Pentatonic and Modal Blending
Ever wondered how to make your solos sound more organized? How about more feel based? There are a lot of contributing factors to creating a great sounding solo. Here we examine a scalular approach. Using modes and Pentatonic scales we can steer our improvised solos in any direction we want. Again...
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Major Scales 1-4-5
Here we expand on the idea that we began exploring last week. Using the I-IV-V chords, we play the major scale. This is the very beginnings of the idea of voice leading, which we will elaborate on in the future. If this lesson is hard to follow check out our lessons on theory and scales.
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