Feb Bass - Funky February - I want you back

Thursdays 5pm Pacific Time

Feb 9, 16 & 23

Description: It’s Funky February! Join us as we continue down the motown path with another classic soul number: “I want you back” by the Jackson 5. This song is joyful, educational and super fun to play. And, it’s paired with the modern uke class, so you’ll get a cool piece of orchestration to share with your partner or group!

Areas of Focus: Motown-style and bass, ghost, syncopation and the elements of finger-style funk.

Prerequisites: Reading tab is helpful, but can easily be learned in class. Having some understanding of major and minor intervals would also be helpful, but these concepts will be explained as well. All levels are truly welcome :)

 Single/Couple Full Academy One-Month Pass  With your Full Academy One-month Pass purchase (single or couple) you will receive:   * Access to every class we teach (Finger style, Roots, Modern, Beginner, Bass)  * Downloads of each class recording and material for class, including PDF’s, audio tracks and Guitar Pro files.  * Access to the Celebrity Guest Workshop of the month    * A $10 “Loyalty Layaway” credit toward the purchase of a new ukulele/bass  from our Reverb store * Access to the 2020, 2021 & 2022 class archives; a treasure trove of over 100 videos/PDFs/ audio tracks/ Guitar pro files    * An invitation to join Starlight Open Mic (usually 4th Wednesday of every month)

 Single/Couple Full Academy One-Month Pass  With your Full Academy One-month Pass purchase (single or couple) you will receive:   * Access to every class we teach (Finger style, Roots, Contemporary, Beginner, Bass)  * Downloads of each class recording and material for class, including PDF’s, audio tracks and Guitar Pro files.  * Access to the Celebrity Guest Workshop of the month    * A $10 “Loyalty Layaway” credit toward the purchase of a new ukulele/bass  from our Reverb store * Access to the 2020, 2021 & 2022 class archives; a treasure trove of over 100 videos/PDFs/ audio tracks/ Guitar pro files    * An invitation to join Starlight Open Mic (usually 4th Wednesday of every month)

Feb Finger-style Uke: Love Song (Adele/The Cure)

Mondays 11 AM & 5 PM Pacific Time

Feb 6, 13, & 20. No class Feb 27.

Description: “Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am free again!” Adele did a GORGEOUS rendition of this Cure song on her 21 album and the world re-fell-in-love with the beautiful lyrics and soothing chord voicings. Learn the simple picking pattern, chord structure and lyrics of this song during the month of love in Dani Joy’s relaxing class.

Skills acquired:

Latin rhythm knowledge

Right hand dexterity

Memorization techniques

Meditative practice

Prerequisites:

Able to read TAB.

Basic chords on left hand: C, G, Am, F, E7

Desire to explore things you don’t know yet :)

Feb Roots Uke - Blues Boot Camp

Tuesdays 11 AM & 5 PM Pacific Time

Feb 7, 14 & 21.

Description: This month is all about vocabulary.  We’re going to hunker down and learn as many

blues licks as possible. These licks will help us build a foundation that we can use to create improvisations

In the weeks to come. And we’ll have a lot of fun doing it.

Areas of Focus:

We are focusing on melodic, harmonic and rhythmic vocabulary.  We will look at the pentatonic, blues and gospel scales, but not what notes they contain, but how to build and play licks out of them. Too much time is spent running up and down scales in direct sequence. We’re going to learn how to really get the most out of scales in practice and in play.

Prerequisites: There are no hard requirements, but we strongly recommend basic TAB reading and interest in exploring blues rhythm.