Ukulele Workouts: An Exercise Program for Every Skill Level, from Novice to Expert

Keith_NC: Exercises are good, I bought the hardcopy and could not read the print (esp the fingering) for the exercises. I then bought the online version, and it is worth it since the audio files are embedded. But when you double-click on the exercise, the audio button is gone, so you cannot view the enlarged text with the audio. Maybe a bit of coding needed, but it would be a big difference in usability.

United States on Jul 31, 2023

MME Boireau Michele: bon entraînement , livraison rapide

France on Jul 29, 2023

Kitty44: I’d seen the contents of this book prior to buying so knew what to expect.

United Kingdom on Jul 22, 2023

George P. Watt Jr.: Great practice for my Uke. Designed for tenor or soprano Ukes.

United States on Jul 11, 2023

Victoria: I just received this today. My first impression is like warm.
While there is a daily pan for each day of the week, there is no actual exercise or lesson.
So, Mondays, learn some new cords…he lists the cords you should learn. That’s it. No exercises. No suggestions for songs that use those cords. Nothing.

I’ve learned several instruments over the decades. Every single book I ever used had exercises, scales, arpeggios, songs, or whatever, that you followed to increase your skills.

With that said, I’m keeping this book for now. I think I can use the suggestions to increase my skills. Not sure how well a non-musical beginner would fair with this book.

I’ll update after I’ve actually done a week’s lessons.

United States on Jun 06, 2023

Murphy: Mir hat das Buch ein Ukulele Lehrer und Freund empfohlen. Vor dem Kauf sind wir durch die Seiten gegangen und besprochen wie man damit übt... und was daran so gut ist.
Wer beim Uke Spiele sich systematisch verbessern und dabei Freude haben mag, ist das Buch und die Übungen darin eine sehr gute Hilfe. Und, anstatt CD zu den Übungen, kann man über einen Link (erste Seite im Buch) die Spiel-Beispiele runterladen. Das ist sehr praktisch! Alle in allem, eine gute Investition in täglichem Uke Leben.

Germany on Mar 19, 2023

Richard: I teach the ukulele to folks, on an amateur basis, purely for fun. I would highly recommend this book after first going through one of the very basic ukulele books; not as a student's first book. I would also suggest a good basic song book, such as the the Daily Ukulele. As I went through the book, I found myself learning and re-learning quite a lot. And, I have been playing string instruments a long time- about 50 years. Due to arthritis in my very small hands, the guitars, and other instruments, have long been retired.

Pros- This book is really terrific for skills building. It has a unique incremental skills-based approach and one progresses through daily tasks and practice. It's set up into 40 weeks, with a short lesson for each day of each week. It is well organized, thoughtful, and quite frankly an amazing amount of fun. Some daily tasks will take less than the suggested 20 minutes of daily practice, while others will take longer to master. If you do the exercises, and are disciplined and diligent, it will improve your playing skills and musical knowledge tremendously. This is true for players who are quite experienced, as well as those that are relatively new to the...

United States on Jan 23, 2019

Dizzy Dogs: I’m really happy I bought this book. I’m a beginner ukulele player and started taking classes at the beginning of the summer. I played the clarinet in middle school so I have a basic knowledge of music, but not a real big grasp of music theory. This book has a nice mix of weekly chords, strumming skills, scales, fingerstyle skills and licks & riffs to work on for a suggested 20 minutes a day over a course of 40 weeks.

Even though I’ve been taking lessons all summer, the single most helpful “trick” I learned from this book was how to play the scale in Week 1’s lessons. I’ve learned where various notes can be played on the finger board, but have been struggling. My teacher wanted to know what happened that I suddenly “got it.” Putting the notes in ORDER on a scale was my “ah-ha” moment. I’m afraid my uke teacher is getting dumped—at least for a while—this book seems to think more like I do, and I like the mix of skills each week rather than focusing solely on a set of new chords.

There was no CD included with the book I bought (purchased in July 2016), but there is audio access through the Hal Leonoard website. You can download the...

United States on Aug 26, 2016

Pierfrancesco: PREMESSA: è un libro davvero ben strutturato, ma come dicevo nel titolo, assolutamente inadatto per i principianti. richiede già in partenza nozioni e conoscenze di teoria ed armonia (si può fare a meno del solfeggio essendoci le tablature ed il CD), ed introduce già dalla seconda e terza "settimana" (poi spiegherò) accordi con posizioni abbastanza intricate, pattern in fingerstyle complessi e ritmiche non proprio elementari.

quindi per chi non ha mai suonato nulla, è assolutamente inadatto. è fuorviante quel "for all levels" in copertina.

per chi conosce poco la musica, suonicchia la chitarra e vuole iniziare a fare un po' di strumming per accompagnarsi alla voce, non è adattissimo. meglio un po' di lavoro prima con libri più basilari o le classiche griglie di accordi.

a chi può servire? a chi già conosce la musica, sa suonare, ma ha bisogno di approcciarsi ad uno strumento particolare come l'ukulele con metodo e rigore, perchè per quanto simile ad una chitarra, tra accordatura "rientrante" (con la quarta corda più acuta, anzichè più grave) e le posizioni intricate per gli accordi (nonchè il poco spazio), andare oltre quattro accordi in prima...

Italy on Jan 29, 2016

A.Sturgess: I deliberately used the words 'serious student' in my review caption because that's the impression I get from this brilliant book. This is most definitely NOT a book to dip into nor look at now and then, nor is it a book if you just want something that will quickly give you a few basics and a few songs to sing along with as you strum. But, if you are serious about wanting to learn to play the ukulele then you will already know that just as with any musical instrument, you will need to invest time, energy, effort, thought and lots of practise into the process of learning. That is the basis upon which this book is built. If that doesn't frighten you off, then this book is probably one for you - either as your main teaching aid or as a major strand in your journey towards mastering this surprisingly versatile little instrument. (Not that baritone ukeleles are tiny - but that's another story and is not relevant here as this book is for GCEA tuned ukes).

The subtitle of the book lays it on the line ..... "... A 40 week, one- lick-per-day workout program for developing, improving and maintaining ukulele technique...". Whether or not you actually do work on a day-to-day timetable...

United Kingdom on Sep 08, 2014