Sunday Zoom Jam & Song Links are Below!
What is a Twin Cities Ukulele Club Zoom Jam?
Zoom is a web-based video conferencing tool that allows users to meet online.
1. The Twin Cities Ukulele Club Zoom jams are just that - Jams! They are not open mics. In our Zoom jams, we most often sing and play songs that everyone knows well or songs that are fun and easy to pick up. They are most often 2, 3, 4, and occasionally 5 (or more) chord songs. However, we definitely like and want "advanced" songs that challenge our jammers and help them to become better ukulele players.
1. The Twin Cities Ukulele Club Zoom jams are just that - Jams! They are not open mics. In our Zoom jams, we most often sing and play songs that everyone knows well or songs that are fun and easy to pick up. They are most often 2, 3, 4, and occasionally 5 (or more) chord songs. However, we definitely like and want "advanced" songs that challenge our jammers and help them to become better ukulele players.
Advanced songs:
- Are often more challenging with many chords or odd chord changes that are difficult for someone to learn and remember on the fly.
- Are songs written out (formatted) so they are difficult to read or follow because of no obvious breaks between verses and/or choruses.
- Are songs with no audio or video that jammers can use to learn the song melody.
- Are songs with no brackets [] around chords, which makes them far more difficult to pick out.
- Are songs where color is used for chords which often causes the chords print to dimly.
- Might be songs that include TAB sections.
What to do if you have an "advanced" song for the Sunday Zoom Jam? - Send it to Tony Anthonisen (tcuker@icloud.com) by the Tuesday evening before the jam. He will post it in an Advanced Zoom Jam Song folder on Wednesday, and it will be a Zoom Jam song the following Sunday. Click on the link immediately below to see songs that Tom Ehlinger and Tony feel are "advanced." These songs are in Sunday Zoom date order so you can both see what is coming up and what "advanced" songs were played at past Zoom jams.
2. We see each other, but only whatever you choose to show on the screen. In gallery view on Zoom it is possible to see almost everyone at once, even though it looks a bit like Hollywood Squares. Zoom can run on a computer, lap top, tablet, ipad, or smart phone.
3. We use the Twin Cities Ukulele Club Dropbox songs and also the Yellow and Blue books. (Links to the Dropbox 1A ALL SONGS and SUNDAY SONGS are below.) If you don't have any of those, not to worry; someone with the song on their computer can share their screen so everyone in the meeting can see the song.
4. What is the difference between a Zoom jam and in-person jam? - Because of the unavoidable delay in communication over the internet, we can converse with each other pretty well, but we can't all play and sing together at the same time. What that means is one person selects a song they will lead (or ask someone else to lead which is perfectly ok too). Then everyone, except the person leading the song, turns off their mics. The leader then plays and sings the song which everyone can hear. You play along however you wish, but only you can hear your own playing and singing. It's sort of like a one-way duet.
5. A VERY BIG advantage to Zoom jams - Singing and playing without anyone hearing you will seem a little strange at first. However, once you get used to it, it can be really fun because you can sing your heart out without inhibition and experiment with strums, picking, alternate ways of playing chords, etc. - And, NO ONE can hear you! A great way to try out and strut your STUFF!
6. In between songs, we chat pretty much as we did (and will do again someday) at the in-person Jams. It's a way for us all to keep in touch and get some uke playing in as well.
Questions - TomEhlinger@gmail.com.
3. We use the Twin Cities Ukulele Club Dropbox songs and also the Yellow and Blue books. (Links to the Dropbox 1A ALL SONGS and SUNDAY SONGS are below.) If you don't have any of those, not to worry; someone with the song on their computer can share their screen so everyone in the meeting can see the song.
4. What is the difference between a Zoom jam and in-person jam? - Because of the unavoidable delay in communication over the internet, we can converse with each other pretty well, but we can't all play and sing together at the same time. What that means is one person selects a song they will lead (or ask someone else to lead which is perfectly ok too). Then everyone, except the person leading the song, turns off their mics. The leader then plays and sings the song which everyone can hear. You play along however you wish, but only you can hear your own playing and singing. It's sort of like a one-way duet.
5. A VERY BIG advantage to Zoom jams - Singing and playing without anyone hearing you will seem a little strange at first. However, once you get used to it, it can be really fun because you can sing your heart out without inhibition and experiment with strums, picking, alternate ways of playing chords, etc. - And, NO ONE can hear you! A great way to try out and strut your STUFF!
6. In between songs, we chat pretty much as we did (and will do again someday) at the in-person Jams. It's a way for us all to keep in touch and get some uke playing in as well.
Questions - TomEhlinger@gmail.com.
Twin Cities Ukulele Club
Sunday Zoom Jam & Song Links!
Sunday Zoom Jam & Song Links!
These are the Sunday Zoom songs that have been sung since our Zoom jams began. They are from the Yellow or Blue books, or they were brought (sent to Tom Ehlinger) by one of the jammers. They are not all stored on Dropbox.
Last, but not least . . .
If you would like to receive event notices about Twin Cities Ukulele Club Jams, Workshops and other Events,
1. Send an email to twincitiesukeclub@icloud.com.
2. Put Let Me Know About TC Uke Club Jams & Events in the subject.
3. Include both your first and last name, and
4. include both your city and state.
1. Send an email to twincitiesukeclub@icloud.com.
2. Put Let Me Know About TC Uke Club Jams & Events in the subject.
3. Include both your first and last name, and
4. include both your city and state.