Friday, February 28, 2014

Uke Club, Fri. Feb 28, 2014

The GREAT news is, the club has an accidental/new secretary!  An angel visited today to create an index of songs in the uke club binder. We have a few 2 chord songs, we have lots of 3 chord songs, and she listed a category of 4 chord songs as well.

The same aforesaid angel also refiled the loaner hand outs back in to the book after we played them, so I won't publish a song list this week...  isn't that cool?  In future though, we will also keep a list.

I remember we did the Lion Sleeps Tonite as both the almost-opener and closer.  Also that we had agreed to start with my request, the Danny Michel tune, What Colour Are You, as some complete beginners showed up, creating conflicting priorities, and that we then proceeded as planned - the newbies did like it, and mostly could keep up, but only a few folks sang tho.  We also did a new song from at least 2 members, really stretched out the paperwork for Will The Circle Be UnBroken by adding the real words, enjoyed Five Foot Two at a very perky pace and added Dreams back to the set.

I know I rang in Practice Room Rental Contributions at $32 less tea expense.  I think we resolved to keep music stands to a maximum of 5 and gather around that minimized maximum of photocopies.  We do 2 sided copies as 2 pages one sided and, also talked about an upcoming workshop with Eve Goldberg, a virtual ensemble project we are interested in being a part of, and the two uke-centric events this weekend being hosted by Cynthia Kinnunen.  We also created a mailing list to be maintained by a second accidental/volunteer secretary, ha.  And, it was good that I formally announced the Shopping Break, because there were transactions that needed to get done, well before the registers were closed down, ha.


Monday, February 24, 2014

Uke Club, Fri. Feb 21, 2014

Under The Boardwalk
Hey Good Lookin
Freight Train
My Girl
Da Do Ron Ron
Iko Iko
The Lion Sleeps Tonite
Love Call
Into The Mystic

Moody River

Practice Room Rental $32.75

It was more a uke row this week, instead of a uke song circle...

Friday, February 14, 2014

Uke Club, Fri. Feb 14, 2014



Today at uke club, you can tell I didn't remember the group shot until the very last minute!

At one point, brought the u-bass over for show and tell... but I put it back after half a song because
i.) i forgot for a second that it wasn't UKE club members i needed permission to bring a BASS into uke club from, but my co-workers i.e. as in use in the practice rooms in the lesson centre of instruments off the floor.  aren't we supposed to be doing paperwork about it?
ii.) i haven't looked at a bass chord chart in a while, and hadn't tuned it, and could only find G
iii.) p.s. unamplified (and played by me) it doesn't get to do itself justice.

I also showed a Kyser Capo, which someone asked about, and that we happen to have in stock.  I wished I'd also brought a Shubb mandolin option over for consideration.  A second-timer bought the student copy of Ukulele in the Classroom book I'd ordered in to show, and 2 others committed to buying it, including me.  The Teacher's version is still in the uke book bin - but more on that later.

Talk about your open door policy.  We set chairs right into the lesson studio doorways, to let the waiting area have more of a hallway while we gathered.  I wish more people showed up with their own music stands, and tea cups, and I need to learn more about...

Goals that we talked about this week include having Cynthia at least once a month to instruct us, and to invite some other special guests, including Ian Reid and Danny Michel.

Turn, Turn, Turn
Ruby Tuesday
Song For A Winter's Night
Brown Eyed Girl
Iko Iko
I Will Remember You
Lace And Pretty Flowers
What Colour Are You
Under The Boardwalk
The Lion Sleeps Tonite

Practice Room Rental $18

Friday, February 07, 2014

Uke Club, Fri. Feb 7, 2014

Today at uke club I put up my hand and said that I'd been practicing, if you can believe it, and felt the need for a variety on the D parts in "What Colour Are You"... since we go A to Asus4 in the other part for the variety, would D to Dsus4 work in those parts?  And, if so, how do you do it again?

We decided D6 (hooray, good question!) but in a different fingering than the bar chord we use in our rock 'n roll chord part each verse ha.




This Old Man
Hey Good Looking
I Will Remember You
What Colour Are You
Wagon Wheel
To Make You Feel My Love
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Hey Soul Sister
Tonite You Belong To Me
Five Foot Two
Learning the Game
Miss Ohio
The Lion Sleeps Tonite



Practice Room Rental $23

Monday, February 03, 2014

Uke Club Fri Jan 31, 2014

Love Is A Rose
You Ain't Going Nowhere
It's Alright Cheer Up You're Okay, Gayle Ackroyd All My Loving
I Still Miss Someone
Werewolves of London
Will The Circle Be UnBroken
PUG Riff
Iko Iko
I Will Remember You
What Colour Are You
Hey Soul Sister
The Lion Sleeps Tonite

 $6.50 Practice Room Rental