| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: | |
| When: | On Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-3:00 pm 1st & 3rd Mondays of the month (see link below for dates) |
| Venue: | Pinefields Community Room |
| Cost: | Occasional contributions for room hire and printing costs |
Meeting Date Calendar for 2026
What is Melodic Uke?
The ukulele is an excellent instrument to accompany singing, but it can also be used to play tunes. When there are several ukes playing different musical lines, it can sound surprisingly good.
We aim to play and learn a variety of pieces which broadly fall into these categories:
- Single melody line with simple chord accompaniment
- Single melody line with arpeggio accompaniment
- Multi-part melody/harmony lines with various types of accompaniments
- Canon
- Solo (melody and harmony played together)
To give you a better idea of what we do, here is a link to a YouTube video of us playing Samba CA
Joining
We do have limited capacity for more members. It would be helpful, but not essential, if you have either completed our Melodic Ukulele Course, or you can already read TAB and play a simple melody line. If not, we can help you get started.
If you are interested in joining, or want further information, please contact the leader shown above.
Group Resources
For creative composing, here is a blank sheet that contains an A4 blank staff and TAB page that can be printed.
This group was set up following two six session courses which taught members the fundamentals of melodic uke, including reading TAB and understanding the basics of standard notation. The course materials are available, but note this is not a self-teaching course.
We are building a library of the tunes we play. Each piece will have a PDF file of the sheet music in TAB format. To assist study, some supporting sound files are available where they would be helpful.