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What is Ukulele Adventures ~ ukulele lessons for kids?
Ukulele Adventures video ukulele lessons for kids is a new course featuring instructors Kurt Heinecke, VeggieTales Music Director, and his daughter Gretchen Demonbreun, an elementary music teacher.
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Why the Ukulele?
Your child now has the opportunity to learn one of the most kid-accessible instruments, the ukulele, with two incredibly talented instructors! Together, Kurt and Gretchen make a dynamic duo in this quirky, crazy, fun course for beginning ukulele.
The ukulele is perfect for small hands and arms without having to purchase a smaller-sized instrument, as you might need to with the guitar or violin.
Ukulele Adventures is a one-month course. But, when you purchase it, you'll get access for three months so your child can continue coming back to the material again and again.
In the Introduction Video, you and your child will learn:
What's needed to begin
The parts of the Ukulele
How to tune it
How to hold it
The string letters and numbers
In the lessons and bonus lessons, your child will learn over 10 songs!
Here's the song list:
Lesson 1:
Are You Sleeping
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Bonus Lesson 1: Row Row Row Your Boat in a minor key
Lesson 2:
Lunch Song (Kurt & Gretchen Original!)
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Bonus Lesson 2: Sea Chanty – John Kanaka
Lesson 3:
Skip to My Lou
Day-Oh (Banana Boat Song)
Bonus Lesson 3: A backstage tour of Kurt Heinecke's Nashville studio
Lesson 4:
Camptown Races
Tingalayo – a super fun Caribbean song!
Bonus Lesson 4: Happy Birthday – Serenade your friends and family at every birthday celebration!
You'll also enjoy learning more originals from Kurt and Gretchen! Their greeting songs are so catchy. In the course, they teach students how to play these songs as well.
And, if that's not enough, this course comes with a Ukulele Adventures Practice Book! In it, you'll find chord charts, lyrics to all the songs, and fun activity pages to solidify what you've learned in the course.
Plus, there's a reward badge at the end that you can proudly display once you finish the course. You can download this book immediately after purchasing the course.
My Review of Ukulele Adventures Ukulele Lessons for Kids
My daughter and I just started Ukulele Adventures a couple of days ago. So far, we are loving it!
Kurt and Gretchen are very engaging. He's very funny and has so many interesting instruments that he shares with us!
The first lesson explained — and showed — the different types of ukuleles and which would be best for you and your student to start with.
We learned the names of the four strings and how to remember what they're called, how to tune the ukulele, and how to strum wit the thumb (not a pick).
In Lesson 2 we learned how to play the C chord, two songs that use only the C chord (Row Your Boat and Are You Sleeping), how to play and sing a song in a round, and how to play and sing a partner song (2 different songs sung at the same time).
The lessons are short (less than 20 minutes each), but even so we haven't always gone straight through one in a setting. I love the flexibility here.
This course is awesome — I'm learning, too!
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Where to Get a Ukulele?
Ask your friends to see if they have one you can borrow for a few months.
Hi Raquel,
The Ukulele Adventures course is sold by Musik at Home, which is a different company from mine: Music in Our Homeschool.
We don’t have a ukulele course at Music in Our Homeschool yet, but we do have singing and recorder!
Blessings,
Gena
Yay! I love this! I’m so glad you and your daughter are enjoying it. My kids are going crazy for the Lunch Song in lesson 2. It’s so much fun!
Can’t wait to get to that one!
I specifically purchased MIOHS for ukelele lessons. I’m new to this, but is it even included in this membership?
Hi Raquel,
The Ukulele Adventures course is sold by Musik at Home, which is a different company from mine: Music in Our Homeschool.
We don’t have a ukulele course at Music in Our Homeschool yet, but we do have singing and recorder!
Blessings,
Gena
Thank you, we do love the course.
I guess I was a little confused because there was a free sample week of ukelele lessons.
Thank you,
Raquel
What age range do you think this is best for?
I did it with my elementary kids, and it was perfect. Probably best for ages 8-12. 🙂 But, I enjoyed learning as an adult, too!