The key element for any band, orchestra or choir is team-work. Without team-work no musical group can sound good. Listening to each other and playing in sync with your fellow band-mates is integral to musical success and so playing ukulele together will help your team learn and improve the skills needed to listen and work together effectively.
Many people perceive playing a musical instrument to be extremely difficult, something they will never be able to do. The ukulele helps them overcome this barrier and realise their potential. The sense of achievement having learned a small amount of ukulele to perform a whole song is huge. After our workshops participants often say how they 'never believed they could do it!' - the confidence playing ukulele instills is amazing.
The ukulele is incredibly fun and easy to play. It's unlike other instruments that require very complicated technique and practice before one is able to perform. In one hour it is absolutely possible to play a whole song using multiple chords confidently. Playing music is a joyful past-time and the ukulele quickly lets your team experience this fun and joy.
Jake is one of the UK's leading Ukulele teachers and pedogogists, having presented the popular Ukulele show Music Plus Digital. He is also a Trumpet player and music producer.
Judith is an experienced Opera singer and an accomplished workshop leader, in both voice and ukulele. She runs the much loved B&B Musikschule in Berlin.
