Ukulele Lessons

Yes, that’s correct, today we attended Ukulele Lessons that were put on by the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center.

Now, I thought, how many people could possibly want to attend Ukulele lessons while on vacation in Hawaii. I’m thinking 8 to 10 people maybe 12 tops; so need to rush to get to the 10:00 a.m. lesson. Well thankfully Brenda was a little more realistic and we did arrive about a 1/2 hr  early……. well it was a good thing.

75 people signed in for today’s Ukulele Lesson. Most brought their own Ukulele which was a good thing because the instructor only has 24 Ukulele’s to loan out. In fact it would have been more attendees but they had to turn way about 10 people because they ran out of Ukulele’s.

As your name was called you went and picked up a Ukulele and a song/chord book.

The instructor was very good and the first part of the lesson was all about the 6 basic chords for the Ukulele and we practiced those for about a 1/2. Then we practiced different strumming of the chords.

Finally we put it all together and the entire 75 Ukulele players played a song about Diamondhead that they had been practicing for a while. Oh and the song was sung in Hawaiian so we went over the correct pronunciation of the words for the song as well. There were also 4 dancers that performed as the everyone played; they are also Ukulele players and attend a lot of the sessions……… it was a pretty neat experience.

The final song we learned and sang was Happy Birthday in English and Hawaiian 🙂 as there were a couple people celebrating their birthday’s today.

We definitely need more Ukulele practice but we had fun 😉