Thursday 19th September 2024 is National Dance Day. Of course, we celebrate with songs that make you feel like dancing or are intended to accompany dances. Dance music can be instrumental, such as those in the Baroque period. Put on your dancing shoes and let’s begin!
As usual, we begin promptly at 3 PM EDT with a warm-up exercise (which will not be livestreamed but will be recorded for review for paid subscribers). This exercise focusses on rhythm.
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One of the songs at the Nutmeg Ukulele Jam was “Blame It On the Bossa Nova.” Tom of Kinetic Ukulele kindly shared their song sheet in C for our jam session. Watch the following video to get a sense of the song, including the instrumental introduction. Bring your percussive instruments or use your ukulele to mimic.
We will do the following:
- learn the three chord song
- play the three chord song by ear
- figure out the key to each of the videos below
- try different accompaniment possibilities (Calypso, etc)
- play, sing, and dance at the same time
- modulate (change keys in the same song)
It’s a three chord song with C, F and G7 in C major. Can you figure out what the chords are and play along to it? Dance along to the following videos in C Major or C# Major. One of the modulates up.
Types of Dances
There are SO MANY types of dances, and along with that, music to go with them. Here is an incomplete list.
- Ballroom: foxtrot, jive, quickstep, rumba, swing, tango, waltz
- Latin: lambada, merengue, rumba, salsa, samba, bossa nova
- Baroque: allemande, bourrée, canarie, chaconne, courante, gigue, minuet, sarabande
- Disco: Boogie Nights, Cha Cha Slide, Disco Inferno, Le Freak, Stayin’ Alive
- Irish: hornpipe, jig, reel, slip jig
- Others: ballet, belly dancing, folk, hiphop, jitterbug, tap dancing, square dancing, west coast swing, ……
What time do we meet?
- 21:00 CEST (Venice, Italy)
- 20:00 BST (UK)
- 3:00 PM EDT (East Coast USA)
- Noon PDT (West Coast USA)
- 9:00 AM HST (Hawaii)
There are many three chord songs but 3 Chord Thursday is not limited to 3 chords!! We always start with a warm up at 3 pm EDT followed by two poses for a group photo with our sunglasses and ukuleles. Then we announce our line-up. If there’s no request beforehand, we take impromptu requests and line them up. We aim to end an hour later at 4 pm EST.
Don’t forget your sunglasses!
- Register in Zoom for the Zoom link.
- Subscribe to 3 Chord Thursday (if you don’t already have a day, season, or annual pass)
- Request a song to perform in advance to get in the line-up.
- Sign up for the FREE Ukulele Enthusiast e-Blast.
- Join our 3,700 member Facebook Group.
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