A really fun session today, I hope the kids enjoyed it. Special guest, the multi-talented and creative Kim Logue, who works at Long & McQuade and runs the ukulele club there once each month, sat in today and sang and played along with us. She thought it sounded great! If you ever need ukulele help locally, make sure to visit Kim at L&M Guelph.
Today we moved quickly through some technique and warm ups, right into some songs: Jingle Bells and a new one, Iko Iko. Link to this one is here but please note it’s not in the same key. I transposed it for our group to make the chords easy to play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
So for this week, kids can work on:
- finger picking exercise on all four strings (plucking one note at a time on each finger/fret, one string at a time)
- Clapping and playing lines 1 – 5 in the Ukulele in the Classroom book
- Jingle Bells (attached)
- Iko Iko (attached in key of F)
Starting next week, I’ll be saving a few minutes at the end of each class for anyone who wants to share a song with us, either a cover or an original. Please let your kids know they can prepare something to perform for the group, if they’d like.
Also, if your child is struggling with anything, please touch base with me and I’ll see what I can do to help
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