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marzullo
`Olu`olu
USA
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 Posted - 04/20/2007 : 02:30:06 AM
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 come to aloha music camp, and sit next to the beach with mark. he can reveal the magic of chord structure to you. i'll come along to hold your beer when you try it out on your uke 
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sandman
Lokahi
USA
181 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 04:37:28 AM
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For what it's worth, Curt Sheller has some interesting stuff on his web site regarding jazz and blues on the GCEA uke. Much more than that, too. Try www.curtsheller.com
Take care,
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Leap into the boundless and make it your home.
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Trev
Lokahi
United Kingdom
265 Posts |
Posted - 04/20/2007 : 06:23:47 AM
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Absolute, when Marzullo said you were trying too hard he wasn't being offensive. I believe he was trying to get across the fact that it's not as complicated as you might think. I'm no great shakes on theory, but so far as I understand it, A C6 contains the notes C E G and A in any order. It's the notes 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the scale of C. Now there will be several ways you can play this with different shapes, becuase the notes recur - (I think there's five basic ones). They're all called C6 because they've all got those notes in. If there's a C6 in the music, whichever one you play will fit (i.e. not be dissonant). If you know five ways to play C6 then you can choose which one you think fits the best - it might be that you want your highest note to carry the melody, so you might choose to play one where for instance your C noteis on the top string. Two people playing together might play their C6 in a different position, but it will still sound OK.
I don't know of any elegant nomenclature for the different inversions. I sometimes call them things like 'third fret C' or '8th fret C' dependant on where you play it.
The best advice I can give you is to learn the shapes for the music you want to play. The more shapes you know, the more options you give yourself for how you can choose to play.
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hikabe
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 06:35:37 AM
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| Right on Trev.. except that is a 1-3-5 not 1-4-5. The music dictates where you play the chord. You guys need to write a book to explain which and what chord to use. Rimsky Korsakov wrote a good treatise on the subject in his Book of Orchestration. But you need an intermediate level of understanding to benefit by his efforts. Read up... |
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Trev
Lokahi
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 07:28:17 AM
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Nice one Hikabe! I told you I wasn't any great shakes at theory. Or counting. Or typing. (They put the 4 way too close to the 3 on this typewriter gadget).
Marzullo is right - Mark can explain it to you, he knows his stuff all right. In fact he might have covered this sort of ground in his Ukulele book. It's worth checking out. http://www.mark-o.com/ (sorry I don't know how to make it into a link).
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Absolute
Lokahi
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Posted - 04/20/2007 : 11:32:58 AM
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| Sounds like Mark had better get started on a text book! |
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