Easy Songs (in-person ukulele session)

Adult Learners Week (1-8 Sep) is an international celebration of lifelong and lifewide learning. With this mind, this week’s theme is ‘Easy songs’! We will play popular songs with 4 chords or less. Please bring along a beginner friend – we’ve got 5 spare ukes they can use.
Playlist includes:
All About That Bass – Meghan Trainor
All Apologies – Nirvana
All I Want Is You – U2
Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again – The Angels
Barbara Ann – The Beach Boys
Boys (live) – The Beatles
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
Common People – Pulp
Crossroads – Cream
Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol
Desire – U2
Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac
End Of The Line – Travelling Wilburys
Fever – Peggy Lee

What to bring
Please bring your own ukulele. If you can’t find one in time, I have several spare ukuleles that you can borrow for this meetup.
You can bring snacks/food to the venue. A wide range of non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks are available for purchase at very reasonable prices.
The session is free but there is a donation box if you like our sessions and want to contribute to our operating expenses.

Meeting place
Venue will be the Flemington-Kensington RSL, 25-27 Rankins Road, Kensington, VIC 3031.

How to Get There
– Train – From the city, catch a Craigieburn Line train and get off at Newmarket Station, which is 3 stops from Southern Cross Station or 2 stops from North Melbourne. Exit the station, walk 200 metres to Racecourse Road. Head east (away from the station) along Racecourse Road for 250 metres. Then turn right into Rankins Road. The RSL is about 100 metres down Rankins Road, on your left.
– Tram – The No. 57 tram from the city to West Maribyrnong stops about 200 metres away from the RSL. Get off at stop 25 (Wellington St & Racecourse Rd). Head east along Racecourse Rd and turn right into Rankins Road.
– Driving – Park along Rankins Road or Parsons Street (around the corner). If you park along Rankins Road outside the RSL, there is a 2-hour limit. But if you park further down Rankins Road (one block further), there is no limit.

How we conduct our sessions
For the first 20 minutes we usually play very easy songs which are suitable for beginners (even complete beginners), and serve as a warm-up for more experienced players. Beginners, try to attend this part of the session, it’s the most important bit for you! The next 40 minutes is usually devoted to learning new songs, according to the theme of week. We will then have a 10-minute break. The last 50 minutes is spent playing songs that participants pick from a list.

cheers,
Fi
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