My computer flips the image (I swear I'm holding it correctly) but here is the first picture of my ukulele and me!

Time to start!

Yesterday I bought my first ukulele from tigard music! nothing fancy, but it should do the job of leaning how to play!
Today I tuned my ukulele for the first time, it was really really out of tune and now actually sounds pretty. It was a fun challenge for my ears! Some fun things I learned about tuning a ukulele:

1) tune the E string to a tuner

2) Press the E string on the 5th fret, this will produce an A 

3) Press E string to the 3rd fret, this will produce an E

4) Press E string to the 4th fret, this will produce a C

 After that first task, I started looking at a few basic chords. Now I can finger G, F, and G7 chords! Thats all the information I could take in today. For now I am just practicing changing back and forth between chords so my fingers get used to the new placement.
Its so much fun to play!

Allegra can finally post!

I finally figured out how to become an admin of the blog so now I am ready to post! I am so excited to learn to play the ukulele (this will be my fifth instrument including flute, piano, guitar, and bass guitar). I am looking forward to doing this with a friend, too. Hopefully I will actually learn to master this instrument!

First Google Project Day!

Today was the first inclass google project day! Allegra and I established the fact that we both really want to learn the ukulele, for fun entertainment purposes and a challenge musically. This is only the third instrument I will have learned, but Allegra is far more experienced.
Allegra and I will learn basic chords and will be playing duets together once we figure it out! It should be a very fun project to work on!

-Julia