BEGINNERS & IMPROVERS
For the first forty-five minutes of the Wednesday weekly session (19:00–19:45) the Romsey Ukulele Group Beginners & Improvers will meet in a side room away from the main group.
Total Beginners
If you are a total beginner then this is where you will start. One of our lovely members will tell you a little about the ukulele, but most importantly put one in your hands and get you learning your first chords. You can play a song knowing just one chord, you know! We usually have spare ukuleles, but if you have your own please bring that along. You will stay in this group until you feel comfortable moving between four chords or so.
Improvers
For those of you who are a little more competent on the ukulele there is the Improvers group. In this group you will be introduced to various chord sequences that are heard in many tunes, new chords on a weekly basis, as well as different strumming patterns and methods, and we will play songs from a range of styles of music.
Towards the end of the session we will play through a song as a group, beginners and improvers together. Who knows, we may even get up on stage and perform it for the rest of the club, but don’t worry, we won’t force anyone to do that.
At about 19:45 we will all go out into the main hall and join in with the group sets – our set leaders rotate weekly according to availability/nerve. In Roy’s words “I stand on stage and make a fool of myself singing old songs, and not so old songs, with different timings, strum patterns and a few new chords. If you can master 3 or 4 chords and SING no matter how badly, come along, this spot will promise nothing but a smile and some lovely people”.
And don’t forget the 3 S’s:
SING STRUM SMILE
And the 3 P’s:
PRACTISE PRACTISE PRACTISE
