The 3rd Midwest Uke & Harmonica Camp (MUC) has entered the history books.  And it was as epic as the previous two years and getting larger! So let me start with the general and move to the specific items to share with you.  I’ll share my workshop and instructor info in a separate post. Attendance has grown, there were 100 more people than there were at the first camp, getting close to 200!  Which means more people to jam with, more folks to share with and more opportunities to learn! Olivet College is simply beautiful this time of year!  The campus is green and lush and there are well kept beds full of flowers and perennials.  The classrooms and most areas are air conditioned to help with comfort. Workshops are diverse and full of choices!  This year featured six ukulele tracks, Beginner, Confident Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Intermediate were joined…

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An Introduction to ‘Eine Kleine’ Musical Theory for Ukulele Players I know!  Your eyes glazed over just thinking about it and you are thinking “I just want to play the ukulele and have fun, I don’t need to understand any of that theory stuff.” Trust me!  This will be pretty painless and will provide some basic tools that will help keep you from going crazy in the future!  I’m not going into all the whys and therefores and deep depth dives, this is sort of a top layer ‘here’s enough to make you dangerous’ stuff. How many notes can you play on the ukulele?  It is a pretty simple question.  Most people readily understand that there are seven notes, A through G in music.  Many of us learned the FACE and Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge and the notes found on the basic music scale.  That covers all the white…

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