Church IT – Supporting ministry with IT

The web has plenty to offer in the way of online music lessons, many of them completely free. I’ve written elsewhere about the importance of context to instruction, often lacking in the sound bits found on the web, but if you have a particular question in mind, the web is a great place to start.

Some good videos dropped into my Blogroll, hosted over at Dolphin Music.

For those wanting something more focussed on church, there is plenty to be found over at Music Academy. Some is free and some is paid for. I recommend signing up to the blog.

Personally, at the moment, I’m working on Fur Elise on (wait for it) the humble ukulele (mp3 on EZFolk.com for the unconvinced). I have to say it’s great fun.

My only snag is that having persuaded everyone that the ukuleles were really meant for the children, I felt duty bound to buy one pink and one purple. I’m still rather new to the music group and I’m not sure how they’d feel about a pink Uke. It probably wouldn’t fit onto the scale of ‘How metrosexual is your worship leader’.

However I fully intend to use one or both to keep the children entertained on the way to Spring Harvest. Ishmael on Uke? I’m enjoying parenthood greatly.