Play Ukulele Now (Udemy.com)

Learn to play ukulele, make your own music in your own way on the ukulele and have fun doing it.

( 100 Reviews )

Created by: Dan "Cool Hand Uke" Scanlan

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Explore the ukulele and learn to play it
Identify and clarify the musical options afforded by the ukulele
Provide not just the basic techniques, but challenge students to develop their own styles
Provide encouragement throughout the entire learning process
Relish the history, lore and future impact of the ukulele, the music it makes and players who perform it
Keep it fun

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Overall Score : 88 / 100

Course Description

The diminutive ukulele, born of a marriage in Hawaii in 1879, is

currently in its third wave of worldwide popularity. It's a charming, friendly

instrument and ultimately easy to play. But there are treasures hidden in its

depths. If you want to learn how to play

ukulele, in this course an aficionado of the ukulele for 50 years and teacher

of it for 20, will hold your hand as you learn

to play ukulele, learn its parts, its lore, its tuning, and show you how to

steer it into the world of harmony, melody, rhythm and song.
Written lectures are often backed up with video presentations. And the

instructor is available via email. This course is appropriate for absolute

beginners trying to learn how to play ukulele, guitar players who wish to

migrate to the ukulele, and accomplished ukulele players looking for new

challenges.

Who this course is for:
Absolute beginnersAdvanced beginnersAdvanced playersStudents of culture and music of all kindsAll ages: children to retireesAnyone who wants to learn music

Time: 3.5h

Instructor Details

Dan "Cool Hand Uke" Scanlan

4.4 Rating
100 Reviews

A ukulele performer since 1961, Scanlan returned the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island, Portugal in 1998 in the historic Father and Son Reunion, a project that reunited the ukulele with the rajo and braguinha and united Madeiran and American players in performance, including a live telecast from the Lisbon World's Fair. For the past 17 years Scanlan has been teaching a weekly ukulele class that doubles as a performance group that performs at least once a week at fairs, schools, hospitals, retirement and convalescent homes. The group, the Strum Bums, received a standing ovation at the second annual New York Ukulele Festival. They performed at the Santa Cruz CA Ukulele Festival, and twice at the Honolulu International Ukulele Festival.
Before he started the Strum Bums, Scanlan led the Vokuleles ukulele group in Chico CA, for the last seven of its 37 years. .
Scanlan's ukulele workshops and performances have been highly acclaimed at festivals at the Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum, Santa Cruz, Southern California, Tahoe Area, New York, Auburn CA, and the Liverpool, Nova Scotia, International Ukulele Ceilidh, where he serves as emcee. In 2008 he gave the initial ukulele workhop in Dublin, Ireland, to a group that became Ukuhooley, Ireland's largest ukulele group and presenter of the annual Ukuhooley Ukulele Festival.
Scanlan's ukulele has supported the efforts of Cindy Sheehan, Julia Butterfly Hill, U. Utah Phillips, Judi Bari, Daniel Ellsberg and other peace a