Workshops

4WD UKE is an opportunity to learn something quite different with your Ukulele.
Its a pathway using a simple pattern that leads you into playing /jamming melody……anywhere up your fretboard! It involves thoroughly learning a very simple pattern, suitable for any skill level.(I teach it to my 7 year old students) Once we grasp 'The Pattern' we turn it into major, minor & blues scales and modes, and learn to jam anywhere on the fretboard to some kool backing tracks that you get to take home to play along with.

With an emphasis on learning to listen, singing the notes and intervals, you can learn to play what you hear on the radio and in call and response. Its about finding melody and sweet riffs as well as the basic I, Iv, V7 in each key. With practice, 4WD UKE can open up your ability to jam and improvise in any key from an organic understanding evolving from your own experiential discoveries.

This is an introductory 5 week course to get you started and provides scaffolding of a jamming group and backing tracks so you can hang out with it, both in class and at home. The more you play with it, the more it delivers! It’s free of intellectual theory but it's there to discover when you are ready to know. This simple pattern is a Master Key that allows you to play in any scale, up the fretboard, developing your ear for melody and improvisational skills along with a realised understanding of keys, scales, chords, melody and I, IV, V7 progression. It’s a revelation - at your own pace!!

This is a 5 week course that is offered free to anyone who did it last round to brush up their skills and $15 per class or $60 for the 5 week block. Please send me an email through the contact form to confirm your booking.