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eMedia Music Ukulele Method - Ukulele

User Manual for eMedia Music Ukulele Method - Ukulele Learning Software

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Step-by-Step Ukulele Lessons
• • Over 160 step-by-step ukulele lessons arranged in ten detailed chapters
  • Great for all ages, from kids to adults
  • Lessons include a variety of exercises and songs
  • Lessons cover the basics such as holding, stringing, and tuning the ukulele
  • Learn how to play ukulele chords (including barre chords), use ukulele-specific strumming patterns, muting techniques, movable chord shapes, reading tablature and standard music notation, pluck strum, chord melody style, and more
  • All lessons are fully scalable

Featured Songs
• • Includes multitrack audio playback of hit songs popularized by well-known artists
  • John Lennon's Imagine
  • Simon and Garfunkle's Scarborough Fair
  • The Animals' House of the Rising Sun
  • Bob Dylan's Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
  • Los Lobos' La Bamba
  • Creedence Clearwater Revival's Midnight Special
  • Traditional songs include: Aloha Oe, Old Hawaii, Greensleeves, In the Good Old Summertime, Listen to the Mockingbird, Hawaii Aloha, and more

Song Looping
• • Song looping lets you highlight and repeat any section of music you wish to practice

Instant Feedback on Your Playing
• • Instant Feedback shows you when you play the correct notes on your ukulele as you progress through an exercise
  • With a microphone connected to your computer and a ukulele in your hands, play the notes in the exercise (or song) and the computer will highlight the notes for you in green

Performance Evaluation and Progress Tracking
• • Performance Evaluation gives you feedback on melodies to help you improve your playing
  • Earn up to a 5-star rating or view your score as a percentage
  • Progress Tracking lets you review your best scores and track your progress through the course

Note and Finger Tracker
• • The Note Tracker and Finger Tracker tools let you see the note you are playing by displaying the note as music notation and on the software's Animated Fretboard
  • Correct your playing quickly and learn to read music fast

Interactive Flash Card Quizzes
• • After you’ve been prepped with exercises designed to teach you to read tablature and notation, use the interactive flash card quizzes to reinforce what you have learned
  • Flash card quizzes utilize proprietary Pitch Tracking technology to detect notes played on your ukulele

Over 70 High-Definition Videos
• • On-screen, professional ukulele instructor Tim Carey (Cornish College of the Arts) guides you in over 70 high-definition videos with clear and friendly demonstrations of techniques
  • Videos are viewable at full-screen size

Music Tracking
• • Highlighting of the music and lyrics as they’re heard makes it easy to follow along on the ukulele

Jam Tracks and Multitrack Audio
• • Jam Tracks with dozen of professionally arranged audio accompaniments give you the fun option to play along with a full band
  • Multitrack audio lets you remove the vocals from the song playback and focus on the ukulele part

Variable-Speed MIDI Tracks
• • MIDI versions of songs and lessons allow you to slow down or speed up the music
  • Use in combination with the looping feature and learn at the pace best suited to you

Animated Fretboard
• • Displays fingering positions as the music plays
  • Allows you to see exactly how to play the song on a ukulele fretboard as you hear the music
  • Music tracking highlights the notes being played on the screen, making it simple to follow along
  • Double-click on any note or chord for fingering
  • Includes option for both right- and left-handed views
  • Four fretboard skins let you personalize the software to match your ukulele

Automatic Tuner
• • Tune your soprano, concert, or tenor ukulele quickly and easily
  • Play into your computer microphone and tune interactively with an accurate ukulele tuner
  • A precision gauge allows you to immediately get feedback to see if you’re too high or too low
  • Reference tones for standard G-C-E-A tuning are also included

Chord Dictionary
• • Includes fingering charts and audio playback for over 130 ukulele chords in standard soprano G-C-E-A tuning

Digital Metronome
• • Set your own tempo and work on your picking speed, rhythm, and timing
  • Provides both visual cue and/or audio tick
  • Full range of tempi, from largo to presto

Digital Recorder
• • Record yourself and play back your performance
  • Compare your recordings with the instructor’s version, fine-tune your skills and store musical ideas

Content

Introduction
• • Overview of learning method

I. About the Ukulele
• • The Soprano Ukulele and its Parts; Stringing; Tuning; Holding; Strumming; Beats and Timing Exercises; Counting Beats; Measures, Bar Lines and Repeat Signs; Reading Chord Charts; The C Chord

II. Simple Chords and Strumming
• • The F Chord; Progressive Beats Method; Keeping Time While Changing Chords; The G Chord; Pick Up Notes; Am Chord; The Magic Progression; Practice Songs; Chord Quizzes

III. Chord Progressions and Strumming Techniques
• • Dm, Em, and E7 Progressions; The Up Strum / 8th Notes; Downward Thumb; The Double Strum; Barre Chords; Practice Songs; Chord Quizzes

IV. Syncopation and Muting
• • Syncopated Strum Patterns; La Bamba; The Miss; 12-Bar Blues; The People's Strum; The Pinky Mute; Combined Miss and Pinky Mute; The Strum Mute; Practice Songs; Chord Quizzes, Imagine

V. Strumming Pattern Variations
• • Strumming Pattern Variations 1-4 in 4/4 and 3/4 Time; Practice Songs; G Diminished Chord

VI. Movable Chord Shapes and Progressions
• • Accidentals; Movable Chord Shapes 1-6 with Variations; Practice Chord Progressions; Practice Songs; The Augmented Chord

VII. The Squeeze and Sixteenth Note Patterns
• • The Squeeze Technique; Sixteenth Notes; The Squeeze Rhythm Variations and Exercises

VIII. Introduction to Reading Tablature
• • Tablature; Rhythmic Notation; Melodies—Folk, Classic, and Hawaiian; Flash Card Quizzes

IX. The Pluck Strum and Chord Melody
• • The Pluck Strum; Picking and Strumming; Folk Strum Variation; Adding the Squeeze; Carter-Style Chord Melody; Four-Finger Technique; Arpeggios; Practice Songs

X. Reading Standard Music Notation
• • How to Read Music String by String; Rhythm; Time Signatures; Accidentals; Key Signatures; Practice Songs; Flash Card Quizzes

Appendix
• • Button Symbols; Commands and Shortcuts; Song Looping; Tools (Animated Fretboard, Recorder, etc); Other Types of Ukuleles; Ukulele Set-up; Instant Feedback; Performance Evaluation

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