Another Awesome Session

We had another awesome session today, practising many of the songs we have already learnt, but also learning a new song; One Man Went to Mow.  This one includes G7, so is really tricky to start with.  We know that it just takes a little bit of time for our fingers to get used to the new chord before we'll be really good at it!

Our home learning this week is to keep working on how quickly we can change our fingers between the three chords, the pattern we want to practice is:

C     C     C     C

F     F      F     F

C     C     C     C

G7   G7   G7   G7

G7 Chord

We had a fabulous session yesterday, and did so well in changing between the C and F chords that Mrs Cavanagh even taught us the G7 chord:

Our home learning is to try and get our fingers to remember where they go to make this chord!

Check out this photo we took at the end of the session - now we need a name for our Ukulele Band - I wonder if anyone can think of a name before next week?

Here is the music for our new song "The Doggie Stole a Sausage"  We love this song because it gets faster at the end and we have to really concentrate to stay in time!

Putting the chords together...

Today in the ukulele group we were learning to:
~ Start and stop together;
~ Strum in time;
~ Remember where to put our fingers for the C and F chords.

 We also practised playing songs that had both chords in them: 

"I Caught a Baby Bumble Bee" 

"The Doggie Stole a Sausage" 

When we had nearly finished for the day Mrs Cavanagh let us all have a turn on her Kanua. It has 8 strings made of fishing line, and comes all the way from the Cook Islands. Even though you play it the same as a normal Ukulele, it sounds higher because it is tuned differently:

 Our home learning this week is to train our fingers to change between the C chord and the F chord as much as we can. We will have to practice over and over again until we get really good at it.
We also have to remember to bring a clearfile so that we can bring home the words to the new songs that we learn!