Monday Evening Ukestra
4 Dec 2023
5:30-7.30pm at Carrington BC and on Zoom!
Hello uke players this is an intermediate class; for those people that want to do more than strum.
We have picking patterns, riffs for various songs and a bit of easy stuff to give you a break in concentration! The music can be found here (just click on the links below and print out or download music before class).
HANDOUTS (roughly in order) PLEASE PRINT
- You’re so vain
- Booster Seat – Spacey Jane Booster Seat Riffs
- Tower of song
- Giving in the name NEW a parody of “Killing in the Name” from Rage Against the Machine
- Ticket to ride here is Stu from Uke Mullum’s tutorial Ticket-to-Ride-riffs-.pdf NEW RIFFS!
- Lady Madonna
- Can’t take my eyes off you
- Pompeii by Bastille
- Strong Enough – Sheryl Crow and Strong-Enough-riffs.pdf
- Exile – Taylor Swift
- Sway Quien sera (sway) SWAY (melody In Em)
- Gold on the Ceiling Gold on the Ceiling riffs
- Perfect Day – Lou Reed
- Just what I needed – The Cars
- Sweet Dreams – Dm Sweet Dreams riff Mash up with Seven Nation Army NEW
- Take It To The Limit Take It to the limit – riff
- Sentimental Journey
- Ballad of John and Yoko and riff
- Buzzcut Season – Lorde and riffs
- Chandelier – Sia and Chandelier Riffs
- For Emma – Bon Iver
- Picking Patterns For Ukulele
- C scale (easy) and C scale in thirds (much harder) and Purcell Canon with tab
- C and D scale (inc blues scales)
Extra Handouts
This link is to the Who’s Who and What’s What in Zookestra
- Ukulele major scales and chords
- Major & Minor Scales (Low G)
- Circle of fifths
- C and D scale
- Chords Up the Neck CAGFD
- Uke chords forms
- Uke Scales C & Low G string
Register for Zoom here
You will be required to register for zoom again (Name, email etc).
Then it will ask to open zoom.us and finally give you a link to the meeting.
If you get stuck the meeting ID is 838 8833 1393
Passcode is 092825
VIDEOS
Ticket to Ride
Stu’s tutorial
Giving in the Name (parody of Killing in the Name)
Killing in the Name (the orginal)
Strong Enough
I’m on Fire
Pompeii
Sweet Dreams
Just What I Needed
BuzzCut Season
For Emma
Payment
Most Zookestrans and Ukestrans pay through the very affordable ‘Uketen’. Details on that (for Australians) are here.
If you are Australian but don’t yet want to commit to a uketen, you can pay a casual fee of $20 via Direct Deposit.
International Zookestrans are asked to go to this page to organise payment (through Stripe).
Register for Zoom here
You will be required to register for zoom again (Name, email etc).
Then it will ask to open zoom.us and finally give you a link to the meeting.
If you get stuck the meeting ID is 838 8833 1393
Passcode is 092825