Ukulele Video Workshop

With my workshop anyone can learn a lot of low budget tricks and tips to make their ukulele videos (particularly the YouTube ones) more beautiful and enjoyable! We'll talk about how to concept a video in base of the style, the song, the player, the location, the weather, the time. We'll also see how to storyboard, what and how to shoot, lights, cameras, green screen and video editing in a 2 hours full immersion in the language and grammar of ukulele musical videos!

Time: Saturday 2nd June, 9.30-11.30am

Price: £15.00

Sweet Georgia Brown – A study in simplicity

Playing this classic jazz piece with its original seven chords is too much work! Music should be fun and easy. In this workshop Gerald Ross will teach you to play this tune using three simple chord shapes that will sound jazzier and more hip than the original seven. No music theory is required or taught. And, once you’ve mastered “Sweet Georgia Brown,” you will be able to apply these three shapes to other jazz, swing, and popular songs…..a technique that will boost your skill immeasurably, across the board. You'll be swinging in no time!

Intermediate

Time: Saturday 2nd June, 9.30-11.00am

Price: £15.00

Unlocking the Fingerboard

Stuck playing chords in the first three frets? Don't know where to start with soloing? Use the knowledge you already have to unlock the secrets of playing 'up the dusty end', allowing you to liven up arrangements, play chord/melody style and take solos with confidence.'

Intermediates

Time: Saturday 2nd June, 11.30am-1.00pm

Price: £15.00

Manitoba Hal Workshop

You can't play blues on a ukulele! Who ever heard of using this diminutive guitar for anything other than novelty music or Hawaiian music? Well Manitoba Hal says you can and he wants to show you how. “There are many blues performers like Edgar Winter and Otis Taylor who began on the ukulele before migrating to guitar and I believe the instrument certainly can carry the weight of the blues. People often think of the ukulele as a happy instrument and they're not wrong, but it is also capable of delivering the mojo that makes the blues so interesting” says Hal. 

This workshop covers topics such as the twelve bar blues and sixteen bar blues, shuffle strumming, solo playing and performance skills. Participants will be led through a basic blues song from simply playing the song to “pimping it out” with licks and other tricks of the blues. Arranged for C6 tuned ukulele (G C E A).

Intermediate

Time: Saturday 2nd June, 2.15-3.45pm

Price: £15.00

This workshop will use Exam material plus arrangements from Colin’s Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/colinrtribe -266 videos and 912 subscribers at the time of writing) to demonstrate,  as Chuck Berry put it in his song “Rock’n’Roll Music”   The beauty of the melody and, if you sign up for the workshop, feel free to e-mail Colin at colinrtribe@btinternet.com to ask about a particular piece from the channel you would like included in the workshop. They range from “Nellie the Elephant” to “Ukulele Lady”, “Take Five” to “Zadok the Priest” - something for everyone.

Intermediate

Time: Saturday 2nd June, 4.00-5.00pm

Price: £10.00

In this 90 minute workshop Ken will examine several different ways of playing bluegrass music on a ukulele. This will include finger-style, strumming and flat-picking (without a pick). Many of the main techniques used in bluegrass playing like hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and slides will be carefully demonstrated and you will all be using them in no time.

Ken will also be looking at the similarities between the skills needed for performing bluegrass and Celtic music e.g. playing using campanella voicing. You will get the chance to develop new skills through playing actual pieces of music that Ken has specially arranged for this workshop. If time permits, there may be opportunity to perform a four-part piece together as a group. For this class, participants will need to have an understanding of how to read either tab or conventional notation. Please bring along a ukulele (soprano, concert, or tenor) with standard re-entrant (high G) tuning. It will be fun, but challenging.

Intermediate / Advanced

Time: Saturday 2nd June, 4.00-5.30pm

Price: £15.00

Krabbers is a very talented young man,with original songs which he writes himself.

This is a beginners 3 chord workshop explaining the 1, 4 and 5 in a progression and how they can be used in loads of songs.

Beginners

Time: Sunday 3rd June, 2.00-3.00pm

Price: £10.00

Ukulelezaza's version of Roy Smeck's illustrous Magic Ukulele Waltz is one of his most popular YouTube videos.

At the Ukulele Festival of Great Britain you will get the chance to learn this wonderful tune yourself.

Zaza will demonstrate the melody and fingering in an hour long workshop. Not to worry - you will receive the tablature to practise at home afterwards. Suitable for intermediate players as well as beginners this workshop is a great opportunity to learn one of the classic ukulele tunes of all times.

Beginner / Intermediate

Time: Sunday 3rd June, 3.00-4.00pm

Price: £15.00