Ukulele for Beginners

• Wed 23 Oct
  Eight Wednesdays, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland. Presenters: Eda Tang
  

  • $115.00 incl. GST
  Session information

  Sessions

  Session 1

  Wed 23 Oct 18:00 - Wed 23 Oct 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 2

  Wed 30 Oct 18:00 - Wed 30 Oct 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 3

  Wed 06 Nov 18:00 - Wed 06 Nov 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 4

  Wed 13 Nov 18:00 - Wed 13 Nov 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 5

  Wed 20 Nov 18:00 - Wed 20 Nov 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 6

  Wed 27 Nov 18:00 - Wed 27 Nov 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 7

  Wed 04 Dec 18:00 - Wed 04 Dec 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.

  Session 8

  Wed 11 Dec 18:00 - Wed 11 Dec 19:30

  At Selwyn College, Auckland.
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Description

Be the life of the party and learn the ukulele! Learn basic chords, strumming patterns and tab reading by playing along with new songs each week. BYO ukulele and singing. No musical experience required. 

Taught for adults, we also welcome students 16 years and over on this course.

About your tutor, Eda

Eda Tang taught music at Mid Bays Music School for six years and was also the Assistant Director of the school for three years. She passed Trinity's Grade 8 Flute exam with distinction and plays various instruments. Eda has a love for learning and teaching waiata Māori and sharing her lifelong love for music with others.

About buying a ukulele (if you don't already have one)

Suggestions from previous tutors: When buying a ukulele, I would advise a Makala or a Kohala as the cheapest to consider. Anything cheaper and it's buyer beware - they can be difficult to tune and don't produce such a nice sound. Kala is also good but a little more expensive. As regards size, I'd recommend a concert or tenor size to produce a good sound. I would also recommend buying an electronic ukulele tuner.

Note about left-handed ukulele from our previous tutor, Sonia: "My suggestion would be to buy a normal (right-handed) ukulele. This just means your fretting hand (the left hand) will be more agile than the average right-handed player (whose fretting hand would be their weaker one, the left). I think the ukulele is a wonderful instrument for helping us all to develop ambidexterity".

 

Testimonials

May I take this opportunity to say how much I am enjoying the ukulele lessons with Sonia! Sonia is such a fantastic teacher... she’s really patient with everyone, is able to adapt the material to suit everyone at the level they are at, gives such great tips and techniques for ways to improve and not beat ourselves up if it’s difficult or frustrating, always brings such a great selection of music to the class for us to learn, with just the right amount of challenge in each new song and opportunity to progress in each class. I am totally addicted! I love the whole process - learning a new instrument, being part of a community of like-minded friendly people, singing (attempting to!), challenging myself and most importantly, having fun! The ukulele is my new, uplifting passion! Thank you once again for offering such a breadth of inspiring and awesome community education classes at Selwyn Community Education. There really is something for everyone! Keri September 2020

Thank you for forwarding this on. We love having Sonia as our teacher, she is just perfect for the job. Can’t imagine having anyone better. Regards Therese. October 2019