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NO MEETING 1ST DECEMBER
THE Spa Strummers Ukulele LEARNERS GROUP
Sessions for UKULELE BEGINNERS / IMPROVERS.
Next meeting Wednesday 8th December the beginners are in the main bar area in the Cubbington Club. 7pm for 7.15pm . After about 60 mins of tuition, you can come downstairs into the Function Room and join the main Spa Strummers group for the rest of the night.
We will play 1 or 2 songs which you have just practised.
Anyone can come, bring a ukulele, or just listen and/or sing along. However, important that you phone Dave 07545 863136 to book you in first time.
All beginners and those of you who would like to revisit the basics, or get back up to speed, or just socialise, are very welcome.
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Previous Wed 3rd November
Achy Breaky Heart (G & barre D7) and King of the Road (G, C, and D7).
Then we will run through Jambalaya (C & G7) using the Island Strum and then look at
If time, we’ll start on
Da doo Ron Ron (C, F and G7) and practise 500 miles (C, F & G).
Please practise the chord changes and the Island Strum (on the King of the Road song sheet). Have a little go every day!
Try practising with YouTube, don’t forget to slow it down if you need to:
From previous week Wednesday 27th October session
We will run through chord basics and finger placements for main ukulele chords for gCEA tuning.
This week we are going to work on two songs -
Please practise them before you come along if you can.
To help, you can practise Achy Breaky Heart with the ukulele play along on YouTube https://youtu.be/hjyf0hUYjQ0. This song only has two chords
If you don’t know King of the Road, then listen to it on YouTube, Randy Travis sings it in the right key https://youtu.be/AQIiTRFQCxE but beware he changes key halfway through and we don’t! This song has three chords, a strumming pattern and some stops and starts to get used to.
You can change the speed of the playback on YouTube when you have a song ready to play by clicking on the 3 little dots at the top of the page and then clicking on Playback speed.
Try and practise a bit everyday using some of the songs we have worked on before
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NOTES FOR RAW BEGINNERS to practise at home to help get to BASIC level.
If you have a brand new ukulele then you need to tune it up as often as you can before the meeting.
New ukes tend to come with slack strings and because they are nylon, will stretch and stretch until they settle down.
Print out and practice the following sheets.
Previous 10th November format
This week we'll look at some/all of these
plus we'll run through what we've done already.
Practise the chords and the chords changes, we'll be adding F and Am in these songs
One or two of the above songs will be played along with main group later.
Last week 24th November
W’ll continue to work on the C, Am, F, G7 progression with
listen here But not in the right key!
We’ll also revise:-
and work our way through 9 to 5 (Dolly Parton). I’ll bring paper copies for this week but listen to it here.
Once again, practise little and often and build up your flexibility and memory of chord shapes.
