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Bruce Wason: Ukulele teacher & workshop leader
Bruce is an experienced and inspiring ukulele group leader/teacher, and leader of one-off workshops.
Click on the following links for more information:
Bruce Watson: Ukulele workshop & group leader/teacher
Bruce conducts workshops on a number topics and themes. Check out his menu of ukulele workshops
And you can watch this short video about Bruce as a workshop leader
To learn more about Bruce's music and songwriting, go to his website
Ukelear Power
Ukelear Power is a fun ukulele group based in Preston (Melbourne)
Ukelear Power is a weekly session of ukulele playing and singing. There are three groups,
and all skill levels are catered for from beginners to more experienced players.
The focus is on having fun, but Bruce sneakily teaches as well!
Ukelear Power is based in Preston, in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Sessions run for one hour, but everyone is welcome to stay a while for coffee, biscuits and a chat.
Sessions are facilitated by Bruce Watson. For more about Bruce as a ukulele teacher, see above
If you are interested in being part of Ukelear Power contact Bruce
To see or download the flyer, click on the picture, or here.
- It's been wonderful! I came for some fun in company & came away with a new way of feeling things. What an accepting group Bruce developed. (Cath)
- The combined joy, challenges and wonderful compositions keep me coming back, not to mention the lovely community of happy strummers. (Rachel)
- Joining Ukelear power has been my best decision this year: Bruce puts so much skill, thought and love into crafting our music and the background materials. As a newbie, I was a bit anxious about my lack of skill, but Bruce's guidance and the warmth and good humour in the group meant I always felt comfortable. (Jo)
- Being a part of the Ukulele Power family has been a fun way to learn and play a repertoire of songs on my ukulele. Bruce's knowledge of music and his enthusiastic approach to teaching it has been wonderful. (Lawrence)
To view Ukelear Power's performance at the 2025 Melbourne Ukulele Festival, click on the picture, or here.
Congratulations to the wonderful members of Ukelear Power, who won the Golden Ukulele Award at the Whittlesea Music Muster for their fabulous performance of
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie and Fields of Gold.
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Ukulele Resources
The basics: some helpful bits and pieces
Here are a few resources to help get you started on ukulele, or improve your playing.
Most have been prepared by Bruce Watson, but some are YouTube videos amd other websites.
There are heaps of web pages and YouTube videos showing you how to play the ukulele. All you need to do is try a bit of googling to find out anything you want!
- Buying Your First Ukulele
- Ukelear Power Introductory Resource
- Tuning the ukulele (video)
- Strumming basics
- More advanced Strumming, and a bit about Picking
- Finger Picking
- All about chords - Basics
- 11 basic chords (Video)
- Chord chart
- Movable chords, open string chords and chord inversions
- Web based chord finder & generator
- How to get tunes in a key and speed that you can play along to
- Scales (Major & Pentatonic)
- The Circle of Fifths
Oh, and you can listen to Bruce's song How To Tune the Ukulele! (Track 13 on the CD "Balance")
Tunes
The tunes below are graded by ease, basically according to the chords that are in them, but also other factors such as rhythm or speed.
The easy ones have C, Am, F, G, G7, and sometimes another simple chord, such as C7, Dm, Am7.
Within each category they arranged alphabetically.
As you go down the categories progressively more chords - and more difficult ones - are introduced.
If you don't know the song, just type the title into Google or YouTube and you'll find the original, and quite possibly a ukulele cover version.
Good luck and happy playing!
Please support Bruce making these available
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If you want more . . .
Here are some useful websites with tips on how to play, and lots of songs.
Jim's Ukulele and Guitar Songbook
Dr Uke
Ukulele Hunt
Got a Ukulele
Uketricks (YouTube channel)
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