Instructional Material
All Fred's books have tablature unless otherwise noted. Most have music notation too.
Methods
Fretboard Roadmaps for Mandolin
by Fred Sokolow & Bob Applebaum, a thorough method for mandolin. Learn chords, scales & soloing techniques for all keys & all styles: bluegrass, folk, rock, jazz, blues. Lots of sample tunes & exercises.
- Book/CD$12.95
Fretboard Roadmaps for Ukulele
Fred collaborated with uke expert Jim Beloff to make this complete method book. It teaches you how to strum backup chords in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales, chord-based licks, and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. If you can play guitar, you can play uke (the chord positions are almost exactly the same!). For beginners or folks who already play uke.
- CD & Book$14.95
Fretboard Roadmaps for Bass Guitar
Learn to play bass lines (all kinds of grooves) anywhere on the fretboard, in any key. Learn major, minor, and pentatonic scale patterns, chord-based lines, and much more. Very usefulf or beginning, intermediate, and advanced players. The CD includes 64 demonstration and play-along tracks.
- w/Tab Book & CD$14.95
Fretboard Roadmaps for Dobro Guitar
Learn G, D, A and E tunings, lots of sample tunes & licks that work for bluegrass, blues, country, rock or swing...tab, music & CD.
- Book & CD$12.95
Arrangements
Bluegrass Ukulele
21 of the most popular bluegrass songs & fiddle tunes, arranged for uke. Learn to strum the chords & sing the tunes, plus play them as instrumentals, including 3-finger, banjo-style picking. Songs include: Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms, Wabash Cannonball, Old Joe Clark, Little Maggie, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Banks of the Ohio, Soldier's Joy & more.
- Book & CD. $24.95
Blues Ukulele
16 blues standards. Each song has two arrangements: One with lyrics, melody and uke chord grids to strum while singing, and one with a chord/melody tab arrangement, so you can play the song instrumentally, with lots of blues licks thrown in. All songs are played & sung on the CD. Includes: Beale Street Blues, C. C. Rider, Limehouse Blues, Midnight Special, St. James Infirmary, St. Louis Blues, Tain’t Nobody’s Biz-ness, If I Do & 9 others. Guitar players: if you play guitar, you can play ukulele! You use the same chord shapes, they just have different names.
- Book & CD$24.95