Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
1 Hour(s) 25 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Chris Pottle
Rating
Course Overview
Learn to play all your favourite songs on the ukulele
The ukulele is a wonderful instrument to play, it is great fun, portable, inexpensive to buy and not hard to learn.
This course will teach you all the basic techniques needed to play songs on the ukulele. Everything will be covered in great detail to make sure you understand all the principles of playing. You will learn what type of ukulele is best to start on, how to tune it, basic music theory such as rhythms and note values, how to read chord diagrams and how to change chords, various strumming patterns and you will learn lots of great songs that you can play along with.
All the songs taught in the course are accompanied by PDF files of the lyrics and chords which you can download to help you learn them and to aid your practice sessions.
In this course you will learn :
* 13 chords
* 13 songs
* 14 strumming patterns
After completing the course you will be able to play all the songs and many others too because you will know all of the most common ukulele chords and strumming techniques . Using this knowledge you will be able to play literally hundreds of songs in any genre, pop, folk, gospel, rock and roll or traditional.
The course will include advice also about how and when to practise the ukulele in order to ensure you improve consistently.
The main thing you will get from this course is how rewarding and how much fun playing the ukulele really can be.
Course Content
- 26 section(s)
- 87 lecture(s)
- Section 1 First things first
- Section 2 Understanding rhythm and strumming
- Section 3 How to play chords
- Section 4 The first song - Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Section 5 More strumming patterns
- Section 6 Song 2 - The Whole World in his Hands
- Section 7 Tips on changing chords
- Section 8 More Major and 7th Chords
- Section 9 Song 3 - Oh Susannah
- Section 10 Minor chords
- Section 11 Song 4 - What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor
- Section 12 3/4 time signature and strumming patterns
- Section 13 Song 5 - Happy Birthday ( 3/4 time )
- Section 14 Song 6: On Top of Old Smokey ( 3/4 time )
- Section 15 Song 7: Cockles and Mussels ( 3/4 time )
- Section 16 Song 8 : Home on the Range ( 3/4 time )
- Section 17 Song 9: When the Saints Go Marching In
- Section 18 More advanced strumming
- Section 19 Song 10 - The Battle of Jericho
- Section 20 Calypso strum pattern 14
- Section 21 Song 11- Everybody Loves Saturday Night
- Section 22 Song 12 - The Sloop John B
- Section 23 Song - 13 Michael Row the Boat Ashore
- Section 24 Practicing tips
- Section 25 Conclusion.
- Section 26 Bonus video
What You’ll Learn
- How to play songs on the ukulele., After completing the course you will know how to play chords., You will be able to play many different strumming patterns., You will know about tuning on the ukulele.
Reviews
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KKelly-Jane Erkin
Great course, Chris is very personable and explains things very well, again feeling like a 1:1 class. I do think lyrics & chords should be on Play Along videos too to help the learner.
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SStephen Kinnaird
Easy to understand
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AAllan Mason
A very good, and concise course that covers basic chords and a variety of strumming patterns. The videos are short, presumably because the instructor trusts you to develop your own practice routine, which works for me, but if you need longer videos to practice with, you'll probably have to watch the examples several times.
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MMuthu Barathi
The course is soo exciting to learn, the concepts are introduced in right pace and its just lovely. Never touched an instrument before I think there couldn't be a better way of learning than from a very experienced and passionate musician.
