Key-zy Peasy: Transposing Made Simple

Struggling with tricky chords or singing in the wrong key? Learn how to transpose songs in just four simple steps! This workshop will help you change any song to the perfect key, making it easier to play and sing along. Transform your music and make every song work for you!

Level: Beginners > Intermediate

Sing with Calico

You know Calico, have you ever listened to those wonderful simple harmonies and wondered, “How do the do that”, and play the ukulele at the same time. Well, this is the workshop for you, sing, strum and celebrate with Tina, Juliana and Albert.

Level – All levels

Workshop “Spanish/Latin ukulele”

This workshop is for ukulele players who know the basic chords and strums and want to incorporate more Spanish and Latin rhythms, scales, and sounds into their playing.

We'll practice (part of) Malagueña. We'll learn various parts of the song so you can potentially include it in your ukulele group's or solo repertoire.

Level – Advanced beginners/intermediate

Absolute beginners, adults and children

A workshop for those who have never played the ukulele or have just started. We will provide ukuleles for this workshop if you do not have one. Czech and English.

Level – Absolute beginner

Campanella fretting shapes for high G ukulele

If you want to fingerpick the chord arpeggio, your fretting hand just grabs the chord shape and picking hand plays individual strings with some picking pattern. The same approach can be used for impressive fingerpicking of scale patterns in campanella style, if you know their shapes - you won't find them on the internet. This workshop is a unique opportunity to learn basic campanella shapes held by three fingers of your left hand, how to use them up-and-down the fretboard, and how to enrich them further with your left pinky.

Level – Intermediate to advanced

Chord‑and‑melody arrangement of “Falling Slowly.”

Join Brian “Doc” Policoff for a hands‑on ukulele workshop built around his simplified chord‑and‑melody arrangement of “Falling Slowly.” Doc’s clear, approachable teaching style makes this beloved song from Once—both playable and rewarding for developing ukulele players. Written and performed by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, Falling Slowly is a winner of the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song. You’ll explore how to blend melody and harmony, pick up practical fingerstyle techniques, and walk away with a beautiful, performance‑ready version of a modern classic.

Level – Advanced beginners/intermediate

“Owning” the Song: The Art and Purpose of Song Arrangement

Seven Specific Techniques to Personalize your Performance

Performance, ether with or without a group, demands creativity in putting your distinctive, and differentiating, personal stamp on each song. Like every creative discipline, there are specific steps that enable you to understand how to arrange and present songs with your own interpretative flair. We identify 7 specific considerations that will dramatically affect and improve your arrangements for your group or for your solo performances... and we'll play through examples of each technique.

Level – Advanced beginners / intermediate

Blues Scale, Riffs and Rhythm

Are you ready to start picking? Step out and take a cool solo ride in the middle of a song? We will show you a moveable blues scale, break it down into riffs, and then go to town soloing over the 12- bar blues in small groups - AND then (for the brave at heart) at the end of the class, several will showcase what they’ve learned in front of everyone! This is a very laid-back way to learn improvisation, and everyone will walk away having played a blues solo break!

Level – Beginners/intermediate

Workshop “Gypsy music on the ukulele”

This workshop will explore what characterizes Gypsy music: the scales, the rhythms, and also the freedom inherent in this music. This workshop does require a reasonable knowledge of chords and some knowledge of scales. Using one or two Gypsy songs, we'll explore and practice the typical sounds of Gypsy music.

Level – Advanced beginners/intermediate

Jaroslav Ježek and Jazz for ukulele

In the workshop we will learn to play one song by Jaroslav Ježek and one jazz standard. Both are beautiful in their melody and harmony. We will play in a chordo-melodic style. The songs are arranged for ukulele with a high G string. I am based on the book Jaroslav Ježek in arrangement for ukulele or Jazz for ukulele. For inspiration, I am sending a link to the songs that can be accessed:
https://youtu.be/UwMnP_whdZc
https://youtube.com/shorts/-ZwqhsPzSbM

Level – Advanced beginners/intermediate

Rock-ulele: Rock out with your uke

Transform your uke with rock riffs, power chords, and rockstar tricks. Whether acoustic or plugged in, you'll learn how to channel your favourite rock legends on the ukulele!

Level: Confident beginners +

The Magic Body “Ukulele as a percussive instrument”

Larissa has been developing her love for various rhythms of the world on the ukulele for several years. This workshop is intended to give you an overview of how you can rhythmically and creatively integrate the corpus to give your own ukulele playing more depth and to add small effects at the same time. In addition to various useful little strategies and skills, there is also a little sound-technical know-how afterwards on what to pay attention to on stage and which little tricks prove to be helpful. An all-round package to expand your own perspective on the endless possibilities and to explore new, magical input on the ukulele.

Level: No previous knowledge necessary (not even music theory) but a strap is helpful

Absolute beginners II (adults and children)

A follow-up workshop for beginners, we will focus more on rhythm. The workshop will also be suitable for those who have never played the ukulele or are just starting out. If you don't have a ukulele, we will provide one for you for this workshop. Czech and English.

Level – Beginner