Timothy Flitcroft

This class is aimed at people who have been playing for six months or more and who can read uke tablature or music notation and want to develop their playing

The class will start where the Beginners2 ends but will move on to including more advanced solo ukulele pieces, inprovisation, learning songs by ear, changing the key etc
It still aims to introduce contemporary pop such as Lily Allen, Radiohead, Eddie Vader etc adding in extra bits of accompaniment riffs, 'bass'lines, chord voicings etc

Teaching a workshop with more advanced players is more difficult as people are at different stages and are more interested in pursuing their own musical tastes. To deal with this the first session will include a discussion of what people want eg how much learning from notation amd how much by ear, how much by rote (being told where to put your fingers) and how much by working things out for yourself.

Ideas for songs or pieces you are particularly interested in can be put forward at this stage and if you are interested in particular techniques and strums. On this basis a curriculum will be agreed and given to participiants

All music theory is kept to a minimum and is only given to solve practical problems like being able to change key in a song or to improvise. Generally I would say the theory is far less than what you need to pass a driving test for example. However without gaining a bit of musical knowledge and developing your ear you will be stuck at a fairly rudimentary level.

This is a continuation of the Complete Beginners course but is also for those who can play the basic chords already

Use of riffs and fills to make more complex accompaniments.
About 20 songs and pieces are learned in the course. More difficult pieces being learned over a number of weeks. THere are old favourites such as Teenage Kicks and I Can See Clearly Now and contemporary pop from Lily Allen to Radio head but also some Hawaiian and Folk/ World music songs that may be less well known.
Explanation of movable chord shapes and Barre chords in Major, Minor and Seventh shapes
Use of Voicings to increase variety in song accompaniments
More complex strums and fingerpicks including Three Strum roll and Rasgaudo
Various ways of playing solo pieces to play melodies and chords at the same time

More details at www.uketeacher.co.uk

FREE trial session for first workshop.This is a course for people who may never have touched a musical instrument before in their lives and starts right from the beginning.
You will be playing song accompaniments right from the start in the first workshop. By the end you will know all the basic chords have quite a few different strums under your belt and be able to play tunes from ukulele tablature.
Songs are chosen from a wide variety of sources from contemporary pop (eg Lily Allen - Paolo Nutini - Eddie Vader etc)to Folk, Blues, Country and Hawaiian.
It is a small friendly group of 10-15 and you can go on to other levels at the end of the course.
Full details of all the courses are at
www.uketeacher.co.uk