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Andy F., Producer |
CHORDcamp expand your chordal awareness This is a fast-paced series of 5 two hour workshops that begins with a focus on how to read a melody line in the treble clef and culminates in an uke-centric understanding of chords. There is a clear progressive sense to the order in which these sessions occur: one leads logically into the next. You will be lost by attending a later session without a clear understanding of the material preceding it. Class size is limited to 20 people. This series is aimed at understanding the construct of chords and developing your chordal awareness. IMPORTANT: While it will greatly enhance your sense of WHAT you are playing, this series is NOT about learning to play the ukulele (NOT about playing chords, strumming or honing your playing skills), nor is it a broad intro to the rudiments of music theory. We won’t be looking at bass (or other) clefs, and we won’t be spending a lot of time on scales, Italian terms, song structure, phrasing, note articulation. YOU WILL NEED
Participants will receive a hard copy diagram of the ukulele fretboard with notes and basic enharmonic equivalents named. This will be referred to often. Each session, participants receive an online link to the PowerPoint presentation for that evening. A text book is not required for this series. C O N T E N T UCC-101: Chord Camp: About Time 2h To read a melody line in the treble (or any) clef, you need to understand how time is notated. This is a uke-centric, 2 hour crash course on how time and meter is notated. Hour 1: note and rest lengths and how they are written (whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighths, sixteenths etc. and the concept of triplets) Hour 2: introduction to time signature, meter and tempo (we will not have time to look at phrasing and note articulation) UCC-102: Chord Camp: Melody 2h To look at intervals and then chords, you need to know how to read music. This is a uke-centric, 2 hour crash course in reading treble clef using the ukulele as a contextual reference. Hour 1: understanding the notes on a staff and how they translate to your ukulele fret board Hour 2: introduction to key signatures and how they correspond to major and relative minor keys (we will not be getting into the various types of minor scales) UCC-103: Chord Camp: Intervals 2h To understand chords, one must begin with a clear understanding of intervals (the tonal distance between 2 notes) This is a uke-centric, 2 hour crash course in understanding and naming intervals above and below a given note. Our primary aim is to set the scene for the next Chord Camp session on Chords Hour 1: intervals themselves (whole tones, semi-tones, major, minor, perfect, augmented, diminished) Hour 2: the four most forward musical scales and the intervals between each of their degrees (major, harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic) UCC-104: Chord Camp: Chords I (Triads) 2h This is a uke-centric, 2 hour crash course on basic triads and how they are constructed: Hour 1: how triads are fundamentally constructed and their natural state when built upon the degrees of any major scale Hour 2: 4 basic triads: major, minor, augmented, diminished UCC-105: Chord Camp: Chords II (Complex) 2h This is a uke-centric, 2 hour crash course on more complex chords: Hour 1: 2 and 4 suspensions, 6th’s, dominant 7ths, major 7ths Hour 2: maj9, dom9, 13 and variations like “flat 5”, x/y EXCEPTIONAL VALUE UKE-201 $154 in advance for 5 x 2h sessions
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