If you are in Grade 4 or 5 and have learned (or are learning) ukulele with Mr. Poynter, you can definitely continue it at home... but you will need your own instrument! There is no expectation for you to go out and buy one, but if you would like to, keep reading:
At school, we use baritone ukuleles, which are larger (and tuned differently) than the soprano-size that most people think of when they hear the word "ukulele." If you would like to purchase one to use at home, the model I would recommend is the CL900M, which you can purchase at Tom Lee Music in Langford or Empire Music in Vancouver (super easy to order online) for $98 + tax. Long & McQuade is also an excellent local music store, and would be able to get you a student model baritone. They are closer to downtown.
If you decide to purchase a ukulele, I would strongly recommend also picking up a small tuner such as the ET-660 Clip-On Tuner. If your ukulele is not in-tune when you play it, you won't be able to tell if you're playing the right notes!
Note: If you have a soprano ukulele at home, you can definitely practice the stuff we've been learning but you need to be aware that if you do the fingering for a G chord (for example) that it will sound higher on the soprano ukulele.
At some point in the future I am hoping to change all our ukuleles for soprano or concert-sized instruments.
At school, we use baritone ukuleles, which are larger (and tuned differently) than the soprano-size that most people think of when they hear the word "ukulele." If you would like to purchase one to use at home, the model I would recommend is the CL900M, which you can purchase at Tom Lee Music in Langford or Empire Music in Vancouver (super easy to order online) for $98 + tax. Long & McQuade is also an excellent local music store, and would be able to get you a student model baritone. They are closer to downtown.
If you decide to purchase a ukulele, I would strongly recommend also picking up a small tuner such as the ET-660 Clip-On Tuner. If your ukulele is not in-tune when you play it, you won't be able to tell if you're playing the right notes!
Note: If you have a soprano ukulele at home, you can definitely practice the stuff we've been learning but you need to be aware that if you do the fingering for a G chord (for example) that it will sound higher on the soprano ukulele.
At some point in the future I am hoping to change all our ukuleles for soprano or concert-sized instruments.