Choreographer needed urgently!
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The Sage Ukulele Classes – now on Wednesdays!
Great news – The Sage has moved the adult ukulele classes from Thursday to Wednesday, in order that people can attend both The Sage classes and Ukes4Fun!
Dates and times for the Sage classes starting in September are in the clips below, with links to further details. (The “Absolute Beginners Uke” classes on 25 and 26 Sept are sold out already, I am afraid.)
I could not find a page with details of the “Silver Ukuleles” dates and times but it says on The Sage website:
“Silver Ukuleles – there are different groups and workshops available for the varying standards of Ukulele players. Any enquiries or questions please phone (0191) 443 5034 or contact silver@thesagegateshead.org”
The “Silver Programme” classes and events are for the “over-50’s” and the adult classes are for all ages.
Sally Kat, Head of Learning and Participation Business Development at The Sage Gateshead, has just taken over managing our Adult learning programme. She has been in touch to say that she’d, “love to find a way of us working together, so that people can play the uke in as many different ways and places as possible. With regard to the focus of our classes, they are very much geared towards “teaching” the uke i.e learning chords (with the proper names) and technique as well as building confidence and repertoire. I think this might be quite different in feel to the sessions you offer and hopefully would complement your sessions rather than competing – which is what I am trying to achieve!”
Sally and Ian McKone, Ukulele Tutor, hope to be able to come along to one of our sessions soon, to meet us and have some uketastic-fun!
Some of you might also know Ian in his capacity as wizard-fiddler and ace-acoustic-guitarist and all-round good chap. Though he has nicked my Uke-Chords Crib-Card, so I think he might find that he owes me a pint of Rapper.
Amplify’d from www.thesagegateshead.org
Beginner Ukulele
Wednesday 22 September 6:30 pm
Venue: Music Education Centre
Uke Troupe
Wednesday 22 September 7:30 pm
Venue: Music Education Centre
Absolute Beginners: Ukelele
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Saturday 25 September 11:00 am
Venue: The Barbour Room, The Sage Gateshead
Absolute Beginners: Ukelele
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Saturday 25 September 2:00 pm
Venue: The Barbour Room, The Sage Gateshead
Absolute Beginners: Ukelele
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Sunday 26 September 11:00 am
Venue: The Barbour Room, The Sage Gateshead
Silver Ukuleles – there are different groups and workshops available for the varying standards of Ukulele players
Any enquiries or questions please phone (0191) 443 5034 or contact silver@thesagegateshead.orgRead more at www.thesagegateshead.org
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/b8Bl4y
Ukes4Fun FaceBook Page
I have felt rather guilty flooding the FaceBook Newsfeed with updates about the Ukes4Fun sessions.
So, for anyone who want to receive these, there is now a FB page and a FB RSS/Blog feed you can subscribe to if you want to get updates via FB:
Ukes4Fun Flier – A5 x 2
Please feel free to download and hand these out.
Teeny Uke-Ninja – wowwwsum performance!!!
How old is this amazingly talented, cute child? Three? Puts us grown-ups to shame!
NEXT UKES SESSION AT BISCUIT FACTORY – SUNDAY SEPT 5th – 1:30/2:00ish to 4:00/4:30ish
NEXT UKES SESSION AT BISCUIT FACTORY – SUNDAY SEPT 5th – 1:30/2:00ish to 4:00/4:30ish
Just started to Uke? Good resources for beginners at “Live ‘Ukulele”
Very comprehensive , well organised site with resources and lessons for all levels – including “new starters”.
Hawaiin-music oriented but don’t let that stop you checking it out if that is not your thing.
Run by couple of young enthusiasts who write well and really know the score!
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NO UKES SESSION AT BISCUIT FACTORY TODAY OR NEXT SUNDAY
NO SESSION AT BISCUIT FACTORY TODAY OR NEXT SUNDAY
Apologies for late notice if you did not know already – have just found out.Will send another message when I know whether the next one is Sept 5th or 12th.
Best wishes,
Lizzie
Ukes4Blues!
Chordie Hijack – Part 2 – How to “publish” your own songs using a Chordie Public Songbook
1. First, make your songsheets and upload them to the internet – see relevant section of “Chordie Hijack” described here:
chordie-hijack-how-to-use-the-chordie-renderer-to-format-and-print-your-songs
2. Next, register with Chordie if you have not already done – “It’s free and gives you a personal songbook”:
http://www.chordie.com/register.php
The “personal songbook” is the key part here. You can create as many “personal songbooks” as you like. You can make a songbook “public” in order to “publish” your songs with chord names and chord diagrams.
3. Log in to your Chordie account.
4. Go to “My Songbook” (blue navigation tab just under the Chordie logo).
5. Select “add book” at the top of the left-hand menu, next to “Songbooks”
6. Give your songbook a name. ***Do NOT leave this blank or you will not be able to edit or manage your songbook***
5. Use the “Chordie Hijack” to submit a song to the Chordie Renderer:
chordie-hijack-how-to-use-the-chordie-renderer-to-format-and-print-your-songs
6. Look down the menu on the right for “Songbook: ADD”. Change to the correct songbook if necessary, then select “ADD”.
7. Do this for at least two more songs as you need to have at least three songs in your songbook before you can “publish” it.
8. When you have finished, go back to “My Songbook”, select the songbook you want to publish and customise the settings. These settings will apply to the whole songbook. For example, specify the sort order and instrument. (If you change the instrument you need to select “Change” after you have specified the instrument).
9. Select the “publish” button next to, “Make songbook available to everybody”
10. Use the dialogue box that you see next in order to:
- rename your songbook, if you want to rename it;
- specify the “collection” for listing in “Public Songbooks”, eg. “Blues”, “Uke collections”;
- write some notes to be displayed about your songbook.
If you are able to host the song online (there are multiple services, including a Google service, that will do this for free), you can use the Chordie Chordpro Renderer for formatting/printing. Try this syntax:
…just replace the my_server/directory/file with the correct address.
http://www.chordie.com/chord.pere/my_server.com/my_directory/my_file.chopro
NOTE: Your file name does not need the extension “.chopro” – it could be “.pro” or “.txt” or “.CRD” – but it must be a “plain text” file using “Chordpro” formatting.
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