Five hours of immersion in ukulele ensemble playing
Minimum pre-requisite: You will need to be confident with easy TAB reading, but the day will also provide a challenge for the skilled player.
This day is not suitable for beginner ukulele players.
You will need both a High G and Low G ukulele for these workshops.
All music supplied for you to keep.
Start your ukulele ensemble experience with newly arranged
Campanella ensemble pieces by Sally Carter for High G ukuleles
When playing in campanella style notes are fingered in such a way that playing consecutive notes on a string is avoided or minimised, allowing the notes to ring over each other. Open string notes are frequently used when playing campanella melodies. You will play traditional Scottish and Irish tunes with both melody and harmony parts arranged in the campanella style, and accompanied by chords. Plucking and fretting hand-fingering techniques will be discussed.
Complete your ukulele ensemble experience with a trio of quirky, contemporary ukulele ensemble pieces from Cathy Welsford’s Valla Beach Weather Suite. These three short ensemble pieces, Rain, Wind and Blue, incorporate some easy but quirky techniques including picking the strings on the headstock, creating howling wind noises using slides up and down the fretboard, and detuning your ukulele to create lush chords.
Both High and Low G ukuleles are used.
Friday Insitute is not included with Pineapple Pass
Tickets can be booked at https://theatrenorth.com.au/ukulele-friday-institute-25
Launceston Ukulele Jamboree
We acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal Community as the traditional and continuing custodians of Lutruwita. We honour Elders, past and present, and pay our respects to
all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Together we live, work, play and learn on what always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.