Description
BEGINNERS 2 UKULELE CRASH COURSE | 4 WEEKS | 2 HOURS PER WEEK | £89.99
Please scroll to the bottom for location, dates and times.
After you’ve mastered the basic chords (including the lovely E chord and Bb chord) and a range of strumming patterns in your 4 week absolute beginners course (or equivalent learning elsewhere), you’ll be ready for more! The Beginners 2 course is designed accelerate you with a leap up towards the Intermediate course material. If you want to explore your position 1 chords, add lots more strums, basic picking and add a bit of sophistication to some really popular songs before moving onto even more extra rhythms and barre chords in the Intermediate Course, then this is the course for you!
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW:
With a maximum of 14 people in a class, this intimate teaching environment will enable you to play more songs, more chords, new strumming patterns, how to read tab notation and play basic finger picking patterns, along with some handy tricks to make you sound like you’re playing more complicated things than you actually are. A bit like the absolute beginners course, you’ll learn 3 new songs, with new strumming or finger picking patterns each week, and we provide online resources to help you with your practice at home. If you put some time in, in between the classes, you’ll get a lot out of the 4 weeks. This course is a great way to improve your skill, meet new people and have fun. We have a few different venues and times, please see below for the upcoming courses:
UPCOMING COURSES:
| Start Date | Day of the week | Time | Venue | Address | Post Code | Nearest Tube | Status | Tutor |
| November | ||||||||
| 06/11/2017 | Monday | 6-8pm | The Bell | Bush Lane | EC4R | Cannon Street | [in stock] | Lorraine |
Julie –
A lovely little pub, a Monday night, 15 nice people, a large glass of Red wine my Ukulele and Lorraine. Brilliant.
Not only did i learn to play the uke better but i laughed every week too. Lorraine is funny, engaging and a brilliant teacher. I learnt so much in these 4 weeks, this course catapults you from ‘beginner that struggles’ to ‘beginner thats quite good actually’!, as soon as i knew i could carry on i booked for the next course.
Philip –
Beginners 2 - Incredible, such fun
Ok, so it’s pretty cool being a caterpillar and completing Absolute Beginners but the metamorphosis you experience with Beginners 2 is incredible. And the progression doesn’t require you to buy a new fancy uke; Lorraine taught on us using the same 20 quid uke I use.
Lorraine is such a talented teacher and amazing uke player (so times I found my self just watching and listening rather than taking in the instruction).
Lorraine’s skill is managing the class, each student overcoming their own issues, at their own pace, and being able to inspire confidence to bring it all together. And then when you think you have mastered it, Lorraine is able to show you there are so many more cool tricks and techniques waiting.
It is so hard to explain the thrill of playing a passable rendition of Eye of the Tiger, the addictive pleasure of playing Erasure - A Little Respect, or picking through Radiohead - Creep. Or being able to turn up at a Ukulule Wednesday, playing along without being daunted by the tunes.
The pace is much faster than Absolute Beginners and you really need to practice each week. Despite sticking to the 3 songs per night format, different chords, strums, rhythms, and syncopation make things challenging. And such a good feeling when you nail it!
zingdoozer –
With a past history of failed attempts at learning multiple instruments, I’ve never seen myself as musically inclined. But a fun serious instrument, the online reviews, the guiness world record for the easiest instrument to learn and I thought lets give this a shot. I haven’t regretted it since.
Lorraine is an absolute star, patiently guiding over a dozen people who sometimes want to do different things, encouraging us with our practice, and helping us become ever more confident at attacking ever more complicated strums, picks and melodies.
Finishing Beginner’s 2 (Beginners 1 at a push) allowed me to attend Ukulele Wednesdays, which are a group of uke’rs happily strumming away to songs on the Ukulele Wednesday’s songbook every week, and it’s a regular highlight of my week.
For someone who’s never seen themselves as musically inclined to be able to sing and strum away with a bunch of shiny, happy uke’rs is a gift I never thought I’d have access to, but am very grateful for.
Thanks a bunch Lorraine for bringing this wonderful instrument to the masses.
May your tribe increase!!