First time at a Uke club meeting - Stepping out of our comfort zone

Rllink said:

I don't think I can get mine to do anything like that. She has been performing as a singer all her life, and we both do some gigs and busking together, but in the past she has just sang along and I've sang and played the uke. But she learned a few chords and started playing, and as new chords show up, she just learns them and plays along now. If a song has chords that she doesn't know, or something is too much for her to keep up with, she just mutes the strings and keeps on strumming. She keeps learning new chords and it works for her. But she insists that she isn't learning to play the ukulele, that she is just playing around with it. Whatever.

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Griffis said:

Seems a pity we couldn't have met while we were in Oregon. I am also a big science fiction fan...cinema and tv more than literature, but I have read a lot of the greats as well. Big Star Trek geek...my wife is the Star Wars geek. Still trying to make her aware that Star Trek is superior.

I am a big buff for 50s-60s monster, horror and sci-fi b movies.

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Bill1 said:

Group playing is about a social experience, with the music there so you have something to do and talk and maybe giggle about. Band playing is about a technical musical experience where you care about the technical details of the music and look for gigs.
It does not matter how good or bad you are at a good group experience, it matters more how much you enjoy getting out of your house and meeting people and socialising. As long as you are close to being in tune and on time, all will be well. People who care too much about the technical details at a social session or jam should go to a band practice. So if you find a group like the one described here, you will be self conscious at first, which is natural, but don't let that stop you going.
And just because you do attend a group where the technical details are a bit lax and the music is always the same tunes everyone knows, you still have 165 hours left in a week to get into your technical stuff and to practice diligently, and you can still perform at an open mike or for a concert. You can have some social fun at a weekly group session and do some "serious" music in the same week. In the world of your ukulele you can do both, with the same ukulele, it wont break.

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