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Ukelear Power is a fun ukulele group based in Preston (Melbourne)
Ukelear Power is a weekly session of ukulele playing and singing. There is more than one group, so all skill levels are catered for, from absolute beginner to the more experienced. The focus is on having fun, but Bruce sneakily teaches as well!
Ukelear Power is based in Preston, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Sessions run for one hour, but everyone is welcome to stay a while for coffee, biscuits and a chat.
Sessions are facilitated by Bruce Watson. For more about Bruce as a ukulele teacher, see below
If you are interested in being part of Ukelear Power contact Bruce
To see or download the flyer, click on the picture, or here.
To view Ukelear Power's performance at the 2025 Melbourne Ukulele Festival, click on the picture, or here.
Bruce Wason: Ukulele teacher and workshop leader
Bruce is an experienced and inspiring ukulele group leader/teacher, and leader of one-off workshops.
Click on the following links for more information
Bruce Watson: Ukulele workshop & group leader/teacher
And you can watch this short video about Bruce as a workshop leader
If you want to know more about Bruce's music and songwriting, go to his website: www.brucewatsonmusic.com
Ukulele Resources & Tunes
The basics: some helpful bits and pieces
Here are a few resources to help get you started on ukulele, or improve your playing.
Most have been prepared by Bruce Watson, but some are YouTube videos amd other websites.
There are heaps of web pages and YouTube videos showing you how to play the ukulele. All you need to do is try a bit of googling to find out anything you want!
- Ukelear Power Introductory Resource
- Tuning the ukulele (video)
- Strumming basics
- More advanced Strumming, and a bit about Picking
- All about chords - Basics
- 11 basic chords (Video)
- Chord chart
- Movable chords, open string chords and chord inversions
- Web based chord generator
- How to get tunes in a key and speed that you can play along to
- Scales (Major & Pentatonic)
- The Circle of Fifths
- Finger Picking
Oh, and you can listen to Bruce's song How To Tune the Ukulele! (Track 13 on the CD "Balance")
Tunes
The tunes below are graded by ease, basically according to the chords that are in them, but also other factors such as rhythm or speed.
The easy ones have C, Am, F, G, G7, and sometimes another simple chord, such as C7, Dm, Am7.
Within each category they arranged alphabetically.
As you go down the categories progressively more chords - and more difficult ones - are introduced.
If you don't know the song, just type the title into Google or YouTube and you'll find the original, and quite possibly a ukulele cover version.
Good luck and happy playing!
Please support Bruce making these available
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