Many of the reviews here are focused on how valuable this book is to a completely new student of the ukuleke. I guess this is a cheap, beginner's guide, and you get what you pay for, but I am personally on the lookout for a much more comprehensive chord guide. I'd rather they made the chords a quarter the size, and included twice the number of chords, alternative fingerings and such, and I think it could easily fit into a smaller size for a uke case. I do have good eyes, but I find the type and diagrams in this book excessively large, which thus necessitates a large book with less detail in it. Yes, it has "moveable chords," equivalent to barre chords, but this is one thing I can figure out myself pretty easily. This book has the standard major and minor seventh and sixth chords that all my books contain (and they fit it all onto one page), but what do I do when I come across songs with 4s or 5s, or slash chords? I saw a guitar chord book once that showed lots of alternative fingerings, was the same size as this one, and it explained how to build any chord, with any augmented or diminished interval in it and I was hoping this book would similarly go into these details. I have chord charts in most of my uke song books (like the Jumpin' Jim's books), but I ocasionally come across strange chords in other music I find online or elsewhere. And why include several pages on standard music-reading notation (lines: e-g-b-d-f spaces: f-a-c-e depictions of whole notes, half-notes, quarter-notes, etc.) when the stated purpose of the booklet is chords, and the guide includes no standard sheet music? Nor anything about tablature. For those higher-octave variations, I much prefer using the excellent "Ukulele Fretboard" app on my phone, though I'd rather have a booklet showing the same thing.Īlso, there's too much extraneous info for a "Ukulele Chord Dictionary." A whole page on "how to hold the ukulele," and another uselessly showing all the names of the ukulele parts. Too bad there are no handy charts to show the most-used chords in higher octaves, e.g., different places/ways on the fretboard to play F major (other than the standard, top-of-the-neck configuration, and other than deciphering the movable-chord charts). Even in daylight, the # and b marks are just too small/compressed to be entirely legible. 46-47 ("Magic Chord Accompaniment Guide") is rather small to be read easily by indirect lamp light. OK product, I guess, but some of the concepts are explained insufficiently or are confusing, for example, some "movable chord" diagrams call for bar on frets yet show a four-finger configuration in which none of the frets would be barred (e.g., pg.
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