UKULELE COURSE : Strum & Pluck - More than just jamming

ALOHA😃

Good news to all, to accommodate quite number of enquiries about strumming class, we'll have it soon. For your schedule sake it's gonna be not only 1 class, but 2 classes...so you can choose according to your schedule. (minimum class size : 7 pax to go).

"UKULELE : STRUMMING & PLUCKING" (Under Intermediate Ukulele Class)

This class will focus on "Ukulele as Accompaniment Instrument". It trains students to be groovy, sharpens their hearing and their musical instinct in harmony, rhythm, groove, playing confidence & creativity. For you who already play strumming on ukulele, you can join this class as the instructor will be sharing practical things to add on your strumming patterns and add on some plucking patterns to your playing.

Ability to accompany singing or any other melody playing is very important and yet fun skill to develop for a ukulele player to have. You could just go anywhere with your uke and play along with other musicians, singers, or jam with any kind of music.

In the more advance level, the "groovy" instinct and accompaniment ability will enhance your solo chord-melody playing too.

Here's some spontaneous video we made at Non Entrée Desserts. We had yummy tasting & interesting looking desserts there, as well as we had fun playing music together with their pipe music and taking some experimental pictures :

They're going to close down their business this 20th October 2019. You could hurry to go there and try their amazing dessert concepts.

Back to our upcoming classes, here are details and registration links.

Mondays 3-4.30pm :
https://www.onepa.sg/class/details/c026753161

Thursdays 1-2.30pm :
https://www.onepa.sg/class/details/c026753164

Spread the info around and let's have fun in our inspiring classroom to "chang chang chang chang..." and sing together :D


MAHALO

PS : Music theories (scales, building chords, the reason behind chord progressions, melody playing technique & ensemble playing are taught & trained in our usual elementary & intermediate classes.
 
Aloha :D

Today is the first meeting of a new batch for "Strum & Pluck" class. I've been missing my students for a year, literally, lol.

Some Reggae groove that I taught in my class today, it's got a good message not to worry, and in fact...just be happy. Hey, we are learning a happy instrument :D

For those who stay in SG, the registration's still open, you will miss only 1 meeting. Check out this link :
https://www.onepa.sg/class/details/C026765221

Here I did the solo chord-melody version of it. You can follow the chord as I wrote it in the video too (if you don't play Reggie you can just strum on the 1st beat).

Hope you enjoy this youtube video & if you do please like, share. And mahalo for your subscription
 
In conjunction of Global Beatles Day 25th June 2023 I share Beatles songs to my current batch of Strum & Pluck online ukulele course, the last song before we start the next batch is this George Harrison's song, "When My Guitar Gently Weeps" which I started teaching the class last night. The more I listened to it the more I love the song, it's got sweet "haunting" melody & wonderful progression.

Jake Shimabukuro's version is so beautiful and I can't do what he did, I just spontaneously played & recorded it. Please pardon some hiccups that made my ukulele gently wept, I hope you still enjoy what I share here :
And happy belated "Global Beatles Day" to all Beatles fans out there.

Upcoming Elementary & Intermediate Ukulele Courses at Bishan CC :
https://www.onepa.gov.sg/courses/ukulele-adult-elementary-c027021124
https://www.onepa.gov.sg/courses/ukulele-adult-intermediate-c027021125

Strum & Pluck Online Course (NDP & Elvis' Edition) :
https://www.facebook.com/events/602132545396429/?ref=newsfeed
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Snippet from the previous batch Strum & Pluck :

See you in our fun, rewarding & inspiring class :)
Don't give up your process, you are a work in progress
 
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