Q) Resources

Ukulele Unit

 Learning Goal:

I will perform a song with ukulele and vocals by myself or in a group.

 Success Criteria:

I can:

  • make all the chords correctly 
  • change chords at the correct time
  • correctly play the strumming pattern on my instrument
  • sing all of the lyrics to the song

Your Ukulele Unit Mark:

One Half of Your Mark: perform a song, including vocals, by myself or with others, on the ukulele. 

One Quarter of Your Mark: I can play the chord progression C,  Am,  F,  Dm,  G,  Em,  B ь   and D with correct fingering and smooth transitions. (one quarter of your mark)

 One Quarter of Your Mark: Written Test (See the video about the test on this blog)

 I can identify on a ukulele the:

  1.  frets
  2.  keys
  3.  names of the strings.
  4. Parts of the body on a ukulele
  5.  I can identify: C, Am,  F,  Dm,  G,  Em,  B ь   D  chords based on chord diagrams.
  6.  transpose a song from one key to another (See the video on this blog, for gr. 6, 7, 8) 
  7.  I can successfully tune a ukulele in the standard tuning of G,C,E,A   (for gr. 6, 7, 8)

Extra Credit: In order to go beyond the expectations and earn a level 4, and A or a percentage from 80% to %100 you will need to go beyond the expectations listed above. This could include: writing your own song, performing another song, helping another group with their performance, creating a music video for your performance, etc.