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Truckelele Club
MONdays 5:45-6:30/6:45
10390 manchester drive $12/drop-in

5.23.17

5/24/2017

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Another fun evening of telling sharing, strum patterns with C, Am, F, G7 chord progressions, songs (You Are My Sunshine, Wagon Wheel, and Cups), music theory, and C ascending scale! You ladies are killing it! Remember practice a little a lot!

A word about re-entrant tuning on the ukulele

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Generally, stringed instruments are tuned from low to high - meaning that the strings on guitars, violins, cellos, basses, etc all have a thicker string tuned with the lowest pitch, a slightly thinner string with the next higher pitch, a thinner with the next higher, all the way to the last thinnest, highest pitched string. This is the general nature of stringed instruments, including the piano. The piano is tuned from bass to treble, from low to high, left to right. The notes go from low to high. Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do, and on and on.

​Well ukuleles have an unusual departure from this normal tuning. It is called re-entrant tuning. The top string (#4) is a high g, and the next string (#3) is the lowest pitch on the uke - a C. The next string (#2) is an E, and the bottom string (#1) is the high A. So the ukulele is tuned gCEA - with that little 'my dog has fleas' to guide you with the pitches if you were tuning your uke to itself.  

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Truckelele Blog - a little a lot, not a lot a little

5/22/2017

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​We started this session with our weekly telling sharing. It is fun to learn a little bit about each other each week. It's just like practicing an instrument - you want to practice a little a lot, not a lot a little. Do you see the difference? To strengthen your fingers and transitions, practice a little bit each day rather than damaging your poor fingertips with too much earnest practice in one long session. Similar to gaining proficiency on the monkey bars while avoiding palm blisters when you were in first grade... 
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​C, Am, F, G7 CHORD
​PROGRESSIONS /
STRUM PATTERNS

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Our first class! We met at Mane Attraction on Tuesday from 6:00 - 6:45. $12 weekly drop-in.

5/21/2017

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Fun group of women learning and improving their ukulele skills!
I have returned the expensive groovy projector so all the following lessons/jam sessions will be with natural light from the windows - no more black out shades and technical difficulties!

Parts of the Ukulele


We started off learning a little about ukulele anatomy. It's good to have a shared, basic vocabulary.
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Fingers and Strings

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Generally speaking,
use finger 1 on the first fret, finger 2 on the second fret, and finger 3 on the third fret.

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Fingers on correct frets - with thumb squeezing from the other side of the neck
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String numbers - 1 is closest to floor, 4 is on top
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Where the notes of the open strings are on the instrument, the G clef, and the keyboard
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    Mary Berelson

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