Just want to give a quick feedback to those books.
I live in Germany and bought Level 1 and Level 2 books from this website: http://www.pekelosbooks.com/
The books arrived well packaged in perfect condition after 14 days. Each of the books holds a CD with all the excercises to play along. Contact to the publisher was excellent. He answered all mails on the same day.
I was looking for some teaching material with dedicated excercises to train fingerpicking and fingercoordination for some time. And i found exactly what i was looking for in these books. They are easy to understand and to follow through. Playing the excercises is fun, even if i have to repeat them a lot until they are fluent. And that is due to the CD coming with each book. To most of the excercises there are two tracks on the CD, one in really slow tempo and one close to the original tempo of the tune often with a second Ukulele or Bass in the background. A click track is present, so it is easy to get and keep the timing right. It is just so enjoyable to practise to a play-along instead of a pure metronome or counting for yourself.
And furthermore there are some really beautiful hawaiian arrangements in these books, i have never heard before.
To make a long story short: very good value for the money and some of the best teaching material for beginning fingerpickers i found so far. Would i buy them again?: I surely would.
Edit: the excercises are supposed to be played on a Low-G Ukulele, but i think it is also possible to do it on high-g, except it sounds different.
*as English is not my native language please be gentle with comments to my vocabulary ;-) *
I live in Germany and bought Level 1 and Level 2 books from this website: http://www.pekelosbooks.com/
The books arrived well packaged in perfect condition after 14 days. Each of the books holds a CD with all the excercises to play along. Contact to the publisher was excellent. He answered all mails on the same day.
I was looking for some teaching material with dedicated excercises to train fingerpicking and fingercoordination for some time. And i found exactly what i was looking for in these books. They are easy to understand and to follow through. Playing the excercises is fun, even if i have to repeat them a lot until they are fluent. And that is due to the CD coming with each book. To most of the excercises there are two tracks on the CD, one in really slow tempo and one close to the original tempo of the tune often with a second Ukulele or Bass in the background. A click track is present, so it is easy to get and keep the timing right. It is just so enjoyable to practise to a play-along instead of a pure metronome or counting for yourself.
And furthermore there are some really beautiful hawaiian arrangements in these books, i have never heard before.
To make a long story short: very good value for the money and some of the best teaching material for beginning fingerpickers i found so far. Would i buy them again?: I surely would.
Edit: the excercises are supposed to be played on a Low-G Ukulele, but i think it is also possible to do it on high-g, except it sounds different.
*as English is not my native language please be gentle with comments to my vocabulary ;-) *
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