CHAPTER 1 - Getting Started Lesson 1: Know Your Uke Lesson 2: Reading Tablature Lesson 3: The Notes on the Fretboard
CHAPTER 2 - Strum, Strum, Strum Lesson 1: Your First Chords Lesson 2: Changing Chords Lesson 3: Play Some Real Songs Lesson 4: Spice Up Your Strumming Lesson 5: More Chords More Chords Lesson 6: Minor Chords Lesson 7: Waltz Time 3/4 Lesson 8: Right-Hand Tools and Techniques
CHAPTER 3 - Reading Standard Music Notation Lesson 1: The Notes and the Staff Lesson 2: The Natural Notes on the 3rd and 2nd Strings Lesson 3: Time Lesson 4: Rests Lesson 5: Dotted Half Notes Lesson 6: Natural Notes on the 1st String Lesson 7: The C Major Scale Lesson 8: Eighth Notes (Of Course) Lesson 9: Dotted Quarter Notes Lesson 10: Sharps and Flats Lesson 11: Accidentals in a Key Signature Lesson 12: Ties Lesson 13: Navigating a Musical Map
CHAPTER 4 - Theory Without Fear, or a Little Knowledge Can Get You Jamming Lesson 1: The Major Scale Is Your Measuring Stick Lesson 2: The Circle of 5ths Lesson 3: Intervals Are Your Building Blocks Lesson 4: Harmony and Chords
CHAPTER 5 - Old-Time Ukulele and Backing Up Fiddle Tunes Lesson 1: Strum Patterns and a Tune in G Lesson 2: Accenting the Backbeat, the E and E7 Chords, and Sally Ann in A Lesson 3: Fiddle Tune Form and Soldier's Joy in D
CHAPTER 6 - Old School: The Swingin' Ukulele Lesson 1: How to Swing Lesson 2: Sixes and Sevens and Chords Lesson 3: The Circle of 5ths Progression Lesson 4: The Triple Strum Lesson 5: The Triple Burst Strum
CHAPTER 7 - Rocking Out the Uke Lesson 1: The Syncopated Strum Lesson 2: Adding Percussion with Mute Strokes Lesson 3: Moveable Chord Forms, or How I Learned to Be My Own Chord Dictionary Lesson 4: Using Moveable Chords, Left-Hand Mute Strokes, Reggae, and Soul
CHAPTER 8 - Taking It Home: Island Style Lesson 1: New Strums
CHAPTER 9 - Ukulele Blues Lesson 1: The 12-Bar Blues Lesson 2: Memorizing the 12-Bar Blues Lesson 3: The Blues Shuffle Rhythm Lesson 4: The Minor Pentatonic Scale Lesson 5: Transposition Lesson 6: Transposing the Blues and the Minor Pentatonic Scale Lesson 7: Blues in a Minor Key
CHAPTER 10 - Introduction to Fingerstyle Lesson 1: The Right-Hand Position Lesson 2: Arpeggio Pattern T-i-m-a Lesson 3: Middle and Ring Fingers Together Lesson 4: Fingerpicking in 3/4 Lesson 5: Alternating-Thumb Pattern T-i-T-m
CHAPTER 11 - Getting Ready for the Next Level Musical Expression
APPENDIX A - How to Practice Low-G Tuning How to Practice Organizing a Practice Session Buy a Metronome Conclusion and Resources for Further Study
CHAPTER 1 - The World A'Chording to Uke Lesson 1: Theory and Major Triad Inversions Lesson 2: Minor Inversions Lesson 3: Diminished and Augmented Triads Lesson 4: Dominant 7th Chords Lesson 5: Diminished 7th Chords Lesson 6: I-IV-V Progressions Using Moveable Shapes Louie's Wild Thing Lesson 7: I-vi-ii-V There Must Be Fifty Ways (to Leave the Fifties) There Must Be Fifty Ways (to Leave the Fifties) in F Lesson 8: i-VII-VI All Along the Stairway All Along the Stairway in D Minor
CHAPTER 2 - Expanding Your Groove Palette Lesson 1: Groove Concepts Lesson 2: Rhythms Using Triplets Lesson 3: 3+3+2 Lesson 4: Split Strum Lesson 5: Bo Diddley Beat, or Clave Lesson 6: 3/4 and 6/8 Time Signatures
CHAPTER 3 - Kind of Blue Lesson 1: 12-Bar Blues Lesson 2: 16-Bar Blues Lesson 3: 8-Bar Blues Lesson 4: Turnarounds Lesson 5: Circle of 5ths Blues Progressions Salty Dog Blues Lesson 6: Jazzin' the Blues Lesson 7: 16-Bar Ragtime Blues Alice's Red Hot Electric Rag
CHAPTER 4 - Melodic Playing Lesson 1: Open-Position Scales Lesson 2: Playing Melodies Amazing Grace Red River Valley Lesson 3: Scales up the Neck Lesson 4: Aura Lee Aura Lee Lesson 5: Oh! Susanna Oh! Susanna
CHAPTER 5 - 3rds and 6ths Lesson 1: 3rds Ode to Joy (Harmonized in 3rds) Lesson 2: 6ths Ode to Joy (Harmonized in 6ths)
CHAPTER 6 - Fingerstyle Uke Lesson 1: Fingerpicking Patterns Lesson 2: Alice's Red Hot Electric Rag (Fingerstyle Version) Alice's Red Hot Electric Rag (Fingerstyle Version) Lesson 3: Banjo Rolls Rolling Down That Long Lonesome Road Lesson 4: Fingerpicking in 3/4 and 6/8 Time Lesson 5: House of the Rising Uke House of the Rising Uke
CHAPTER 7 - On the Other Hand: Tricks and Techniques for the Fretting Hand Lesson 1: Hammer-Ons Lesson 2: Pull-Offs Lesson 3: Combining Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs Lesson 4: Slides Lesson 5: Bending Strings and Vibrato Lesson 6: Ashgrove (Using Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs) Ashgrove Lesson 7: Sitting on Top of the World (Using Sliding) Sitting on Top of the World
CHAPTER 9 - Getting Jazzy Lesson 1: Everything You Wanted to Know About Jazz Lesson 2: Has Anybody Seen My Uke? (32-Bar Progression) Has Anybody Seen My Uke? Lesson 3: Uke's Got Rhythm Changes Uke's Got Rhythm Lesson 4: Gypsy Jazz
CHAPTER 10 - Let's Jam Lesson 1: Jamming On the Blues! Lesson 2: Pentatonic Scales Lesson 3: Soloing Using the Minor Pentatonic Scale Lesson 4: Soloing Using the Major Pentatonic Scale Lesson 5: Combining Major Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, and Blues Scales in a Solo
CHAPTER 1 - The World A'Chording to Uke Lesson 1: The Harmonized Major Scale Lesson 2: Four Types of 7th Chord Inversions Lesson 3: Major and Minor 6th Inversions Lesson 4: Suspended Chords Lesson 5: What Are All Those Other Numbers, Anyway? Lesson 6: ii-V-I Progression
CHAPTER 2 - Arranging Chord-Melody Style Up the Neck Lesson 1: Chord Scale Lesson 2: When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody) When the Saints Go Marching In (Chord-Melody) Lesson 3: The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody) The Star-Spangled Banner (Chord-Melody) Lesson 4: Jazzin' the Blues (Chord-Melody)
CHAPTER 3 - Yet More Strums and Techniques Lesson 1: Reviewing Triples, Bursts, and Split Strums Lesson 2: The Fan Stroke Lesson 3: The Fan Stroke Continued Lesson 4: One-Finger Tremolo Lesson 5: Rasgueados Big Flamenco Workout
CHAPTER 4 - Old-School Fancy: Traditional Ragtime, jazz, and Hawaiian Lesson 1: Aloha 'Oe Aloha 'Oe Lesson 2: Raggin'on 12th Street Raggin'on 12th Street Lesson 3: A Tune in the Formby Style George on Holiday Lesson 4: Autumn Has Left Autumn Has Left Lesson 5: Has Anybody Seen My Uke? Has Anybody Seen My Uke? Lesson 6: A New Triple Strum from the Islands The Breeze Through the Trees Blows with Ease
CHAPTER 5 - Scales and Arpeggios: Positions Up the Neck Lesson 1: Major Scale Positions Lesson 2: A La Mode Lesson 3: Major and Minor Pentatonic Scales Lesson 4: Arpeggios Lesson 5: Scale and Arpeggio Practice Ideas
CHAPTER 6 - Fingerstyle Lesson 1: House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody) House of the Rising Sun (Chord-Melody) House of the Rising Sun (Variation 1) House of the Rising Sun (Variation 2) Lesson 2: Cross-String Fingering Lesson 3: Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String) Arpeggi-Uke (Cross-String) Lesson 4: Cross-String Rag Cross-String Rag Lesson 5: Miss McLeod's Reel Miss McLeod's Reel
CHAPTER 7 - Rockin¡¯ the Uke Lesson 1: Song for George Song for George Lesson 2: Body Percussion Lesson 3: Funky Funk Strumming Lesson 4: Building a Groove by Layers Gloves Off
CHAPTER 8 - Jazz Improvisation Lesson 1: Improvising over Dominant 7th Chords Lesson 2: Improvising over Other Types of 7th Chords
CHAPTER 9 - World Rhythms and Scales Lesson 1: Odd Time Signatures Lesson 2: Harmonic Minor and Its Modes Lesson 3: Balkan Up the Wrong Tree! Balkan Up the Wrong Tree!