Originally written 9/4/20 : “KAME Chord task : Studying the new tool… or about learning to rock on the ukulele (with all the chord shapes)”

~ mitchelljamesdavis

Following several weeks of becoming familiar with the ukulele as a new instrument, I have ‘formally’ decided to begin drilling the set of chords that we are asked to learn for the chordal instrument task. Just as a new guitarist will often spend their initial learning stage exploring the instrument and working out how to play a simple tune on their own in order to find a starting point, I needed to get acquainted with the ukulele before learning from another source.

In order to begin learning these chords more intensely, I created a table/grid with columns of C through to Bb and rows of  major, minor and dominant 7th variants for each. My experience as a guitarist gave me the knowledge that anytime I found one easy shape on the ukulele neck, I could translate it up a fret or several and have the next chord I need to learn complete. This process worked well and I can now comfortably begin drilling these shapes to memory.

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Mitchell Davis is currently a music education student at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, born in 1997 in Sydney. Following a positive experience with music education in primary and secondary school combined with a personal interest in music as an art form and pastime, the decision to become a secondary school music teacher was naturally made. Complimentary to studying music education, Mitchell also holds ongoing experience working casually in a youth centre in his home town of Liverpool, New South Wales. After studying a Certificate IV in Youth Work, It was here that he initially found his confidence and appreciation for working with young people to achieve positive outcomes, predominately running various sport and recreational youth programs both in local Liverpool school environments and at the youth centre's facilities. Mitchell's specific area of musical expertise is in contemporary popular music. He is a guitarist and songwriter who enjoys genres such as heavy metal, extreme metal, hard rock, blues and pop. He has begun to write, release and perform his original music in order to gain greater experience in the world of contemporary music and give more value to his skills in becoming a music educator.

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