Musivate

Ukulele workshops for companies

This is the holding page for Musivate - the new name for our company ukulele workshop brand, because we musically motivate people!

We’ll have more information up for you soon, but for now, here’s a taster!

You can see how it works here… (Press play if YouTube is enabled at work!)

BBC Radio 2 Drive Time (Simon Mayo/Rebecca Pike) interview

Want to know a little more?

Want to get your colleagues together in an inclusive way? Our company ukulele workshops can include everyone, they’ll make you work together to play a song or 3 that sound great, and, best of all you’ll have a really good laugh along the way!

You can use these workshops at conferences, as ice-breakers, for team building, or, just to get your colleagues to play a song at the staff party! Whatever happens, you’ll have fun and play at least one song in the hour long workshop.

Please read our FAQ’s if you want any more…

What happens at a team building workshop or power hour?

We come along with 30-100 ukuleles, and have you and your colleagues or friends play a song or 3 within an hour.

What do we need?

All we need is a enough chairs to seat everyone, and a projector.

How does it work?

We’ll have you playing at least one song within an hour, promptly. You can use this as a lunchtime, Monday morning or Friday afternoon ice breaker. When you know how to play, we incorporate musical games to make you work as a team, or prepare yourselves for a video - we can film or give a live performance to other people within your company, if you like.

We want more than an hour, do you do half or full day workshops?

Yes, in half a day you will learn to play, then play games, including team competitions, or you can choose to practice for longer to make a video or to perform to others outside of your team. Many stick with the inter-team challenges if you want to use it for a team building exercise to bond smaller teams within an organisation. In a full day, you can learn lots of songs, and hone your skills, and include all of the elements available, rather than just one or two.

We normally go on an away day or we do a sports activity. Why should we consider using ukuleles as a team building exercise?

You have to listen to each other and work together to make music. As the ukulele is much easier than many instruments to play, it means you can make music in an hour. We encourage you to sing together too. (Don’t worry, we can’t sing either!) The whole effect will leave your staff smiling, laughing and singing or at the very least humming. Literally everyone can get involved!

We’d like to use it as part of the office party, get our team playing, and perform to the rest of the company.

This is definitely possible! Please let us know if there’s a question or point that we’ve not covered. We’ll put it up here.Find out more about our team building workshops!

Check out our press page, then contact us to find out more, or book your place.

Strum with you soon!

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Student Feedback

"I hope my friends don't find out about the absolute beginners ukulele course - otherwise they will realise how easy it can be to play a few popular songs on the uke!" — - Kerry Norman, London, February 2011
"We were able to learn lots of songs even from the first lesson. It was a social class, with a relaxed venue and teacher who made it fun for us." — - Leigh Brady, London, April 2011
"Relaxed, no pressure and fun, so perfect!" — - Kate Perman, London, February 2011
"The Adult Beginners course was relaxed and non-intimidating from the start. Most of us had no prior experience with stringed instruments, but we were very quickly playing real songs that we knew and loved. It was a great introduction to the ukulele that gave us the basic skills to take away and build upon in our own time - I’d definitely recommend it, and am considering doing a further course with Learn To Uke & Uke’s Cool in the future." — - Jo Stimpson, London, June 2010
"Very relaxed jovial atmosphere in class, enjoyed the whole course very much, thanks!" — - Gary Powell, London, February 2011
"Lorraine really knows how to challenge her students and give them difficult tasks to improve themselves in a way that it is still a lot of fun - in a very playful way! She is very friendly and happy and knows how to motivate her students! I think that the skype lessons worked very well and I enjoyed them a lot." — - Suzanne Legerer, London, October 2010
"I liked the speed of the course. I learnt 3 songs in the first lesson. The variety of songs was good, different styles kept it interesting. The class size was small so we all got to know each other." — - Ranall Leckie, London, April 2011
"Group environment, fun to learn. It was nice to have a beer whilst learning!" — - Mike Lindridge, London, April 2011
"I tried to teach myself and found it was much harder than I thought it would be. Within a couple of weeks with Learn to Uke I had improved loads and was really excited about learning more! I really enjoyed it so went on to do the Advanced beginners Course, which was just as good, and easier to deal with the more difficult content in a smaller group setting." — - Chris Poole, London, June 2010
"I can now play ukulele and I love it!! Thank you!!" — - Steve Edwards, Crouch End, February 2011
"Fun environment but pushed to learn. Great combination!" — - Lucy Rodgers, London, February 2011
"It was good to learn in a group, it was very friendly and inclusive so it was a good way to learn." — - Simon Bold, Woolwich, April 2011
"This [absolute beginners ukulele course] was great fun, no pressure but good guidance. Learned the technique after faffing on my own for months. Also good foundation to look up songs I like [outside of the course] and learn them. Want to do the advanced beginners course." — - Kelley Swain, London, February 2011
"Lorraine made it fun and I felt like I could play interesting and popular songs after one class. I feel encouraged enough to continue playing and I will definitely take the next course after I practice what I learned so far. Excellent course!!!!! (five exclamation points)" — - Steve Mitchell, London, February 2011
"It was an encouraging environment, as it was social and we covered a lot of ground." — - Liz Larvin, London, April 2011
"Lorraine makes everything seem easy and possible. The absolute beginners course was fun, light hearted and a great variety of songs. It has got me started, which is exactly what I wanted!" — - Claire Beegan, London, April 2011
"Had such a good time. Lorraine is brilliant. Very patient, a really good laugh. So surprised at how much I've learned. I would definitely recommend this class. (Personal opinion is I would have paid much more)" — - Breda Murphy, London, February 2011
"Great fun and then you realise at the end you can play lots of songs. Great!" — - Claudio Scola, London, February 2011
"Thanks for the (advanced beginners/intermediate) ukulele course Lorraine. I found that it was just the right level. Actually you worked us harder than expected which was no bad thing. I got much from the course and would thoroughly recommend it." — - Mike Davids, Tunbridge Wells, April 2011
"The only instrument I've willingly practised." — - Mari Borghesi, London, Fbruary 2011
"Fantastic teaching. I feel like I have really achieved something." — - Libby Morrissey, London, February 2011