You bought a ukulele! Now what?

This can be confusing ...
so pay attention!

To be successful in the orchestra, you need to be able to read tablature. It literally takes 15 minutes to learn how to do this, but it takes awhile to get comfortable with reading it fast enough to play with the orchestra. The easiest way to get fast, is (not surprisingly) to play with the orchestra. In other words, you'll be pretty bad in the beginning and pretty good at the end.

If you have worked with other ukulele instructors or groups, you probably were given the "chords-first" education and you might be pretty good at moving from chord to chord while singing. This skill is wonderfully important, but not so much in our orchestra. You'll mostly be playing one note at a time lickety-split while the person next to you might be playing something totally different. It's super fun.

You can just show up and work to figure it out as you go, but we do recommend you at least go through the completely free Book 1 on our former conductor's website so you'll learn the skills needed by all instrumentalists and ensemble musicians. Go HERE to check out that book. This is the fastest track to learning the techniques we use in the orchestra.

You should know: We've taught a lot of people with zero background in music and the most successful do two things: Practice a teeny bit on your own and keep showing up to group rehearsals. We've been doing this a long time and have a system that works. 

Rocky Mountain Ukulele Orchestra is part of a comprehensive music development educational system and we're a bit irreverent in our approach to reaching the highest levels of musicianship. We have a daring plan to dominate the known universe.

Don't be confused. This program is world class and you can definitely find more expensive ways to hang out with "famous" ukulele players, but only here will you find the support to learn to plays, develop your solo and ensemble playing, learn arranging, learn composing, learn to lead other musicians, learn to teach, and hell, we'll even let you try conducting if you want. (You don't want.) If you live in the Denver-metro you have face-to-face access to the most advanced community ukulele program on Earth. Even if you need to participate virtually from elsewhere on the planet, we're set up to help you. We're not messing around with this! You'll find prettier teachers on YouTube, more famous ukulele-ists at a local festival, cool bro's teaching the song you like just about everywhere, but you won't find a program as expansive and comprehensive as this one. You are in the right place if you'll keep showing up and if you'll practice a little bit.

We will teach you to survive a large orchestra, encourage you to play with smaller groups, and even become a legendary soloist if you wanna put in the work. We don't believe in life-long lessons, we believe in life-long making music in solo and ensemble settings.

Workshops at YOUR Location

• We offer ukulele team-building workshops and ukulele camps for kids and adults all over Colorado and New Mexico. If you've fallen in love with the ukulele, you can bet there are others at your workplace or in your community that would love to join you in the fun.
• Times, locations, and fees are all negotiable, so drop us an email and let us know what your big idea sounds like and we can help you turn it into ukulele magic. Email: info@ukuleleorchestra.org

Private Lessons

• We know the best teachers in town. Some teach different styles or methods. Send us an email to get more details at info@ukuleleorchestra.org