About this event In this crash course collection of workshops you will go from a complete beginner to strumming and picking a song on your ukulele. We will learn basic chords, strumming and fingerpicking patterns, and even some melody playing. If you’ve always wondered where to start your ukulele journey, or if you are looking for a refresher on the foundations, look no further. Classes are held Fridays at 7pm EST starting September 24th and running through October 29th. All classes will be recorded and sent to registrants so do not worry if you cannot attend every class live in person. *While this course, like all of our UKC Academy classes, is being offered free of charge, please consider a contribution to help support the donation of ukuleles to hospitalized children as well as the new UKC At Home program, providing ukulele resources and music therapy groups to patients once they are discharged home from the hospital. Through the donation of ukuleles and support of music therapy, we give the gift of music for life.

• Ukulele Anatomy
• How to hold and tune your ukulele
• First Chord Progression
• Down and up strumming basics

• How to strum
• Down and up motions
• Integrating the “miss”
• Example strum patterns

• How to fingerpick
• Fingerpicking techniques
• Travis Picking

• Melodic picking with the thumb
• C Major Scale
• Chord Melody

• Chord Melody cont.
• Melody Harmony Rhythm
• Musicality

• Wrap up of first 5 weeks
• Putting the techniques into play with the song
• Where to take it from here

About this event In this crash course collection of workshops you will go from a complete beginner to strumming and picking a song on your ukulele. We will learn basic chords, strumming and fingerpicking patterns, and even some melody playing. If you’ve always wondered where to start your ukulele journey, or if you are looking for a refresher on the foundations, look no further. Classes are held Fridays at 7pm EST starting September 24th and running through October 29th. All classes will be recorded and sent to registrants so do not worry if you cannot attend every class live in person. *While this course, like all of our UKC Academy classes, is being offered free of charge, please consider a contribution to help support the donation of ukuleles to hospitalized children as well as the new UKC At Home program, providing ukulele resources and music therapy groups to patients once they are discharged home from the hospital. Through the donation of ukuleles and support of music therapy, we give the gift of music for life.

• Ukulele Anatomy
• How to hold and tune your ukulele
• First Chord Progression
• Down and up strumming basics

• How to strum
• Down and up motions
• Integrating the “miss”
• Example strum patterns

• How to fingerpick
• Fingerpicking techniques
• Travis Picking

• Melodic picking with the thumb
• C Major Scale
• Chord Melody

• Chord Melody cont.
• Melody Harmony Rhythm
• Musicality

• Wrap up of first 5 weeks
• Putting the techniques into play with the song
• Where to take it from here

Stop by the UKC table to bid on a uke signed by Jake or place a bid online!

• Bidding starts: 12:00am, Friday October 1, 2021
• Bidding ends: 10:00pm, Wednesday October 13, 2021 (America/New York)

Every major artist has that one defining album or performance, but for ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro, his entire career has been filled with such magical achievements. Since he first came to the world's attention with his deeply beautiful and original take on George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in a viral video that dominated YouTube in 2005, the Hawaiian-born Shimabukuro has virtually reinvented the four-string instrument, causing many to call him "the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele." "I just wanted to play the ukulele my way, which turns out to be very different from what everybody else has done," says Shimabukuro, who started playing the instrument at the age of four and learned the basics from his mother, Carol. "Most people just strummed the ukulele, but I started playing melodies, and a new world opened up - I was singing through the ukulele." As soon as music fans got a listen to Shimabukuro's virtuosic approach to the ukulele, they were hooked. Albums such as Gently Weeps, Peace Love Ukulele and Grand Ukulele topped the Billboard World Music Charts, and as a live performer he became one of the hottest tickets around, headlining the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center and the Sydney Opera House (he even performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) while making frequent appearances on media outlets like The Today Show, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

About this event In this crash course collection of workshops you will go from a complete beginner to strumming and picking a song on your ukulele. We will learn basic chords, strumming and fingerpicking patterns, and even some melody playing. If you’ve always wondered where to start your ukulele journey, or if you are looking for a refresher on the foundations, look no further. Classes are held Fridays at 7pm EST starting September 24th and running through October 29th. All classes will be recorded and sent to registrants so do not worry if you cannot attend every class live in person. *While this course, like all of our UKC Academy classes, is being offered free of charge, please consider a contribution to help support the donation of ukuleles to hospitalized children as well as the new UKC At Home program, providing ukulele resources and music therapy groups to patients once they are discharged home from the hospital. Through the donation of ukuleles and support of music therapy, we give the gift of music for life.

• Ukulele Anatomy
• How to hold and tune your ukulele
• First Chord Progression
• Down and up strumming basics

• How to strum
• Down and up motions
• Integrating the “miss”
• Example strum patterns

• How to fingerpick
• Fingerpicking techniques
• Travis Picking

• Melodic picking with the thumb
• C Major Scale
• Chord Melody

• Chord Melody cont.
• Melody Harmony Rhythm
• Musicality

• Wrap up of first 5 weeks
• Putting the techniques into play with the song
• Where to take it from here

About this event In this crash course collection of workshops you will go from a complete beginner to strumming and picking a song on your ukulele. We will learn basic chords, strumming and fingerpicking patterns, and even some melody playing. If you’ve always wondered where to start your ukulele journey, or if you are looking for a refresher on the foundations, look no further. Classes are held Fridays at 7pm EST starting September 24th and running through October 29th. All classes will be recorded and sent to registrants so do not worry if you cannot attend every class live in person. *While this course, like all of our UKC Academy classes, is being offered free of charge, please consider a contribution to help support the donation of ukuleles to hospitalized children as well as the new UKC At Home program, providing ukulele resources and music therapy groups to patients once they are discharged home from the hospital. Through the donation of ukuleles and support of music therapy, we give the gift of music for life.

• Ukulele Anatomy
• How to hold and tune your ukulele
• First Chord Progression
• Down and up strumming basics

• How to strum
• Down and up motions
• Integrating the “miss”
• Example strum patterns

• How to fingerpick
• Fingerpicking techniques
• Travis Picking

• Melodic picking with the thumb
• C Major Scale
• Chord Melody

• Chord Melody cont.
• Melody Harmony Rhythm
• Musicality

• Wrap up of first 5 weeks
• Putting the techniques into play with the song
• Where to take it from here

About this event In this crash course collection of workshops you will go from a complete beginner to strumming and picking a song on your ukulele. We will learn basic chords, strumming and fingerpicking patterns, and even some melody playing. If you’ve always wondered where to start your ukulele journey, or if you are looking for a refresher on the foundations, look no further. Classes are held Fridays at 7pm EST starting September 24th and running through October 29th. All classes will be recorded and sent to registrants so do not worry if you cannot attend every class live in person. *While this course, like all of our UKC Academy classes, is being offered free of charge, please consider a contribution to help support the donation of ukuleles to hospitalized children as well as the new UKC At Home program, providing ukulele resources and music therapy groups to patients once they are discharged home from the hospital. Through the donation of ukuleles and support of music therapy, we give the gift of music for life.

• Ukulele Anatomy
• How to hold and tune your ukulele
• First Chord Progression
• Down and up strumming basics

• How to strum
• Down and up motions
• Integrating the “miss”
• Example strum patterns

• How to fingerpick
• Fingerpicking techniques
• Travis Picking

• Melodic picking with the thumb
• C Major Scale
• Chord Melody

• Chord Melody cont.
• Melody Harmony Rhythm
• Musicality

• Wrap up of first 5 weeks
• Putting the techniques into play with the song
• Where to take it from here

Charlotte's Charity Cabaret

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• Auction
• Appetizers
• Cash Bar

RSVP by Oct 25, 2021