Ukulele Practice And Technique Bootcamp: Uke Like The Pros - Paperback

by Terry Carter (Author)

Do you struggle with your technique on your ukulele? Do you wish you had more speed, strength, dexterity, and confidence in your playing? The Uke Like The Pros Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootcamp book will not only help you develop killer technique, speed, dexterity and strength, but will give you some amazing warm-up exercises you can do every time you pick up your ukulele.

This book will guide you step-by-step through 20 exercises that will build up your technique in both your right and left hands. Each lesson will progressively get more difficult, building upon the techniques you learned in the previous lesson. This Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootcamp has helped thousands of students, many of them just like you, gain better control and skills on their ukulele.

Are you a beginner? No problem, this technique bootcamp will start for the beginning and help you gradually increase your skills and ability. Don't worry if you have been playing a while because with the play-along backing tracks you can practice each exercise at the appropriate tempo that fits your skill level.

With this book you get free access to the all the backing tracks for each lesson. You will get the slow, medium, and fast tracks, as well as the extended long backing tracks, so you can work these exercises up and down the fretboard at your own speed. There is an accompanying video instructional course (sold separately) that compliments this book available at the Uke Like The Pros site.

The warm-ups you learn in this book can be used over and over again as you continue to develop more speed and accuracy in your playing. You will also notice these techniques will help all aspects of your ukulele playing, such as your strumming, fingerpicking, soloing, and chord melodies.

Plus, while you are learning and practicing these exercises, your eye-hand coordination will improve and you will develop a stronger ear. Since many of these patterns are repetitive and move to different strings and frets, your ear will tell you when you get off. Need help learning the ukulele fretboard? Since all the techniques you will learn in the Ukulele Practice and Technique Challenge Bootcamp will work up and down the neck, you will gain an improved knowledge and ability to play both horizontally and vertically up the ukulele neck.

You will develop speed and technique in both your left and right hands. You will see massive improvement in your 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fingers, through exercises that work on chromatic notes, leaps, jumps, scales, sequences, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and spider exercises. This will be the greatest book you can find for your ukulele playing that will build your technique so you can become the ukulele player that you know you can be. Sound too good to be true? It's not. The Ukulele Practice and Technique Bootcamp is the most amazing book to build your strength and technique on the ukulele.

Each lesson was been hand-crafted for you by ukulele master, Terry Carter. Terry is the founder of ukelikethepros.com and has taken the techniques that helped him become a leading online ukulele instructor and put them into one comprehensive book. Terry spent over 20 years as a Los Angeles studio musician, producer, and writer, working with greats such as Weezer and Josh Groban.

He has written and produced tracks for commercials (Discount Tire and Puma) and TV shows, including Scorpion (CBS), Pit Bulls & Parolees (Animal Planet), Trippin', Wildboyz, and The Real World (MTV), has self-published 10 books for Uke Like The Pros and Rock Like The Pros, filmed over 30 ukulele and guitar online courses, and has millions of views on his Uke Like The Pros and Rock Like The Pros social media channels. Terry received a Master of Music in Studio/Jazz Guitar Performance from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Music from San Diego State University in Music Education.