We received a nice email from Acoustic Bridge, who recently published an article that teaches beginners how to play a variety of ukulele songs using just a few simple chords.
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Free Lesson: Compose Form AABA
Download Free Lesson Packet: Compose Form AABA
Lesson: Here’s a fun group activity combining language arts and math to compose your own 32 bar Form AABA song on ukulele!
Target Grade/Subject: 4th-12th Grade Music
Essential questions or objectives:
- Who are George and Ira Gershwin?
- How many measures are there in musical Form AABA?
- What instruments make up the Rhythm Section?
Concepts or skills that provide the purpose for this lesson:
Knowledge of multiplication, fractions, vocabulary, grammar, poetry and traditional rhyme schemes.
VA SOL – 4th GRADE (Language Arts)
4.1: The student will use effective oral communication skills in a variety of settings.
- Contribute to group discussions.
- Seek the ideas and opinions of others.
4.6: The student will read a variety of poetry.
- Describe the rhyme scheme.
- Write rhymed, unrhymed, and patterned poetry.
VA SOL – 4th GRADE (Mathematics)
4.4 = The student will:
- Estimate sums, differences, products, and quotients of whole numbers.
- Add, subtract, and multiply whole numbers.
- Divide whole numbers, finding quotients with and without remainders.
- Solve single-step and multistep addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems with whole numbers.
Video Ex 1: The Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" with Grey Garrett on vocal and Samson Trinh on ukulele.
Video Ex 2: Form AABA composed and performed by teachers at Uke 'n' Roll's workshop hosted by University of Richmond's Partners in the Arts summer program.
Download Free Lesson Packet: Compose Form AABA
How to Start a Ukulele Program #1
Here's a video of Uke 'n' Roll's residency at Rural Point Elementary School located in Hanover County, VA. Watch music teacher, Paul Bakeman from Beatin' Path Publication and Uke 'n' Roll clinicians, Samson Trinh and John Gonzalez del Solar instruct 3rd graders how to play the ukulele. Residency was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, Virginia Commission of the Arts and CultureWorks.
New Book, New Website!
After three years of hard work, Samson Trinh and John Gonzalez del Solar from Fan Guitar and Ukulele are proud to release Volume 1 of Uke 'n' Roll's THE COMPLETE UKULELE METHOD! The book is filled with lessons and songs for uke enthusiasts and music educators. Many thanks to Scruffy, Sarah Lapallo Beck (Inkwell Book Co.), Ashly Covington (Covington Imagery), Pat Wittich, Lynn Magrini Scott, Virginia Sowers, teachers and hundreds of students for geeking out on our first publication!We also revamped our website for easier access like buying books and grabbing FREE ukulele chord charts. Check our FREE RESOURCES page for new ukulele tips, blogs, videos and lessons!