Discover The Ukulele with School of Uke
Discover a world of music at your fingertips. Get inspired at our Ukulele taster events and learn to play your first song. Ukulele Provided.
Location
The Castle
44 Aldgate London E1 1LN United KingdomGood to know
Highlights
- In person
Refund Policy
About this event
Get inspired. Meet new people. Discover the Ukulele.
Our ukulele taster sessions are for adults 18+ who are looking to meet new people and make new friends in London while introducing you to a world of music. You can learn your first song in just one hour and ukuleles are provided.
A Ukulele Taster Session for Absolute Beginners with Ukuleles Provided
Our taster event is designed for Absolute Beginners. You don't need any prior musical knowledge whatsoever. We’ll teach you everything you need to know to start playing, including how to hold the instrument and how to strum basic chords and rhythm.
Learn to play your first song in under 1 hour
By the end of the session you'll be playing your first song, and you will get a taste of our unique brand of group ukulele lessons and courses.
What kind of music can you play on the ukulele?
Absolutely anything! The ukulele is a great instrument to get started on and a stepping stone to all other stringed instruments. And it's super portable. Anything you can play on a piano or guitar, you can also play on a ukulele. Rock, Pop and R&B bangers at your fingertips!
Our Venues
Our partner venues are hand-picked for their special qualities, and located just 5-10mins walk to TFL Stations. We work with a number of amazing venues in Central, East and South London, including Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Tower Bridge, Aldgate, Bethnal Green, Stratford and Bermondsey.
Details
Session Duration: 1 hour
Ukulele Provided - No experience needed whatsoever!
20 Places Available
For Adults 18+
An Awesome Experience
Hear what our students are saying...
"Great teaching and so much fun! Everyone should learn to play an instrument!" - Edina
"Amazing fun, brilliant teaching, awesome people!" - Avital
"I couldn't play anything when I first started, now I'm playing Slash solos!" - Cat
Frequently asked questions
We absolutely welcome complete beginners, and people who have never touched a musical instrument in their lives. Come along with an open mind and we'll do the rest!
All instruments are provided at our Discover sessions so all you need to bring is your best self!
It's great if you can arrive 10-15mins early to grab a drink, meet your tutor and get settled in.
Absolutely, it's a fun and chill vibe, and a bit of dutch courage never goes amiss. Our partner pubs & venues all offer a good range of beers, wine, spirits and simple cocktails like Negroni, Aperol Spritz etc.
There are 20 places available on each of our Discover the Ukulele sessions, so usually there are about 15-20 people. It's a nice size group and small enough that everyone can meet each other and have a great time together.
Absolutely anything! Anything you can play on a piano or guitar, you can also play on a ukulele. It's just half the size and easier to play. The ukulele is a great instrument to get started on and also a stepping stone to all other stringed instruments. Rock, Pop and R&B bangers at your fingertips!
Absolutely, we want to create a community of music lovers so we encourage people to hang out for drinks after our weekday evening classes. Our lessons are about social connection and learning to play as part of a group so they are as much social events as anything else.
Learning to play music, especially socially, has many health and well-being benefits. As well as brain development, when you make music, your brain releases endorphins that induce feelings of joy and pleasure and block the nerve cells that cause us to feel stress and pain. It even boosts immunity!
These sessions are for adults 18+. They are designed to give you a taster of the ukulele, and its Hawaiian origins, and to give you a sense of the vibe at our adult group classes that we run in pubs from 7-9pm on weekday evenings.
Unless otherwise stated in the venue description, sadly our sessions are not wheelchair accessible. They usually take place in pub function rooms, which are often only accessible by staircases.
We offer a range of ukulele lessons & events for complete beginners to advanced players, both online and in-person. As well as group based lessons, we offer one-to-one ukulele lessons, our 5wk Ukulele Challenge For Beginners,10wk Evening Courses, plus package events for private & corporate clients.
School of Uke is a sister brand of Duke of Uke, London's World Famous Ukulele Store. The School of Uke name and company was formed in 2012, but we've been teaching ukulele for 18 years, since we first opened our doors back in 2006, as the UK's first ever dedicated Ukulele store.