Students will be taught all the basics of ukelele including: parts of the instrument, identifying strings, frets and fingers in chord charts, how to interpret chord charts, 4 to 5 different chords, common chord progressions, basic strumming patterns and of course a few songs to sing along to as we play.
My class is structured around demonstration and I work in an "I do, we do, you do" model where i instruct and demonstrate then we play together followed by more individualized playing and feedback. The class will have ample opportunity to ask questions and listen to each other play as well as play as a collective group. We will also play some games designed to help the learning and remembering if these new skills.
While we will learn the proper tuning fir each string on the ukelele we will not have time to tune every instrument in each lesson so stydents need to try to have their ukes tuned before we start each day.