Did you know that Yankee Doodle went to London just to ride a pony while playing his ukulele? Armed with the basic chords from Uke 101, in this one hour course we will learn the history and unusual facts about several traditional American songs while learning to play them!! Copies of PowerPoint slides, our class […]
This class, adapted from Bogart and Peters’ 21 Songs in 6 Days: Learn Ukulele the Easy Way, will take novice students through the history and anatomy of the ukulele and includes how to buy a uke, holding, strumming, tuning, singing along, and chords C, Am, F, G7, C7. You will have all the tools to […]
Like playing the uke, but would rather play the melody than sing it? In this class, you’ll use skills from Uke 101 and Uke 102 to play beautiful, full arrangements of songs including both the chords and melody at the same time. Students will learn to read tab for both melody and chords and use […]
Armed with skills from UKE 102-Barrels of Carols, you can take your playing up a notch or two! Course topics include more chord shapes, advanced strumming, fingerpicking patterns and introduction to chord melody, and simple transposing. Of course, you’ll learn lots of new songs. This is a 2.5 hour course meets on one Sunday afternoon. […]
There was an old uke from T-town. Who never could nail that new strum down. She took off her frown and went for all downs. Now she plays for big crowds in a ball gown. Come get your Irish on and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! In this one-hour class, we’ll learn some great Celtic tunes. […]
This 2.5 hour course offered over on Sunday afternoon picks up where UKE 101-From zero to hero leaves off and is based on Bogart and Peters’ 21 Easy Songs for Christmas. Students will learn additional chords, strumming patterns, and percussive techniques. You will learn loads of new songs, literally, barrels of Christmas carols. Not many […]