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The Chrome extension Transpose ▲▼ works great for me. It can also transpose by semi-tone or alter the pitch by fine-tuning, and you can even set time marker boundaries around a particular section of...

Hi Perry,

Of course there's no one way to go about learning chord melody. That's part of what's so exciting about it. I appreciate that the steps you listed have been a gateway into the style...

As Aaron mentioned it’s all about the songs. Learn some standards and eventually the theory will reveal itself. It is helpful to take a lead sheet and note the chord functions with roman numerals....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQZu7izCpE

The thing I found is that anything over about seventeen inches then it gets harder to play mando style fingering. I play 20.5 inches in mando style but it does take a lot of practice and I’m more...

I love my electric octave (GDAEB). It has a sound very much like my favorite electric guitars, but
A) I don't have to deal with the nonsensical tuning of a guitar, compared to the mandos clean...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPEJQ8AbdpI

I enjoyed this.

Daniel

Spread that equine fertilizer Ralph....

For a better understanding I could refer to the first couple of paragraphs in the introduction of Jerry Coker's "Patterns For Jazz" (a book I've used over...

Simple specific exercise given to me by my teacher:
a. Create a simple 4 bar progression on a backing track. Progression could be I-IV-V-I or I-iim-V-I.
b. Choose 4 notes from the home key using...

This is not what you're asking for, but here's a brief explanation of making your own chord melodies.

Step 1: Find the lead sheet (just melody and chords) of the standard you want to play. Try...

I came across Jethro Burns' book and it was an eye opener for me to see that there were only 3 shapes you needed to play 3 voicings over every major chord.

My advice would be to learn only 3 major...

Only took 5 years!?!?!

This book comes in a Kindle version. Amazon lets you download a sample of their Kindle books before you buy. I just downloaded the free sample of the Beatles book. In addition to the table of...

Here's my version of the song for a lady who turned 50 last December, slightly simplified and sans tremolo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB8NLiQDilQ
on my tenor banjo

I have a small mandolin for travel that I built (my avatar) but I wanted something even smaller so I put those fifth-tuning strings on a 17 inch Sopranino uke. (Bought on ebay for $20 due to some...

I used soprano ukulele Lanikai and string set Aquila 30U.
Here are three examples.

http://youtu.be/diivBcQnxHc

http://youtu.be/mXk0iPoutAM

http://youtu.be/W9AU8b_mQm8

Had a go at Nowhwere Man - inspired by this new book. Rosie and Jim like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjeayuJF__Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjeayuJF__Y

I'd just like to say that this book is great. I buy many books that get opened only occasionally but I use this one on a daily basis. I've been looking for chord melody arrangements for GDAE-tuned...

I have all five of my ukes (one a tenor) tuned GDAE. The easiest way to do it is one of two ways, both starting with a standard ukulele GCEA set of strings already packaged for that size ukulele. ...

OK, well I did it. I bought that baritone ukulele from the Craigslist ad. It is a Koloa KU-650 model. I got some of those Aquila strings and tuned (and re-tuned and re-tuned and re-tuned) it to...

"I have a related question that I was thinking about asking in that other thread, but since it's closer to the OP's question here, I'll ask away.

For those of you who had success with the FFcP...

My understanding:

Play the 3rd finger FFcP exercise all the way through starting on the 5th fret of the G string (C). Then, play it again starting with your 3rd finger on the 6th fret of the G...

Ok. The "3rd FFcP C, C#, G, Ab" means that you are working on the third FFcP pattern, thus the "3rd FFcP". As you probably know the 3rd FFcP is the one that starts with the ring finger. So play the...

The favorite for acoustic instruments is François Charle, in the 1st arrondissement (central Paris, near the Louvre).

Other than that, there's a whole neighborhood of guitar shops in the Pigalle...

After my class lecture on music theory last week to my Beginning Jam class, I realized the guitars and banjos could use this guide as well. I used pretty generic chord patterns for them--real guitar...