Over the past week, I have decided for my free inquiry project to be about learning how to play the ukulele. I am a beginner at learning the instrument, and haven’t played one in 10-15 years! Therefor, I have dedicated my time this week to relearn the basics. I have used my music professor and other classmates as a resource, as learning on my own isn’t natural for me. As I have worked with this with my classmates, I feel like I have a strong understanding of the basics, and think that this method of learning has been successful.
The photo above shows the notes I have taken to refresh my memory of music terminology. As you can see, I have been trying my best at learning musical notes, the lengths of their beats/rest, and what the different notes mean. I find taking a photo of the notes and uploading it works best, but as I learn how to actually play the ukulele, I plan to record my progress to share!
Although the video above is intended for kids, I found it to be extremly helpful at breaking musical notation down for me. This video brought me back to the basics, and now I feel confident and prepared for next weeks learning. Along with this, finding helpful videos like this now will be beneficial for my future self, because I can set them aside for when I am teaching music to my students.
This link above is also a very useful website for me to refresh on. It has similar information to the youtube video, but is just another way of explaining it.