This 4-week course is only offered to continuing students from Ukulele Basics Level 1 and is designed to reinforce the chords and strumming patterns learnt in that course. Ukulele Basics Level 2 will also introduce you to the next most useful chords: C7,D,Dm,Em and B-flat. During the course, you will also revise strumming patterns and learn the Island Strum. If you have completed a Ukulele Basics Course/ the 4-week Come and Try Course prior to 2025, enrol in this course before committing to the 6-wk "Chord Twins and More" course. BYO Ukulele.

Your Tutor is Dr Chris Waite

Dr Chris Waite BMBS (Flinders), BCA (USQ Music) has been teaching at WEA since 2022. 

From Adelaide, Chris studied Music Performance at Norwood High School and in 1985 he won the SA Young Composers Award with a work written for piano and four voices. After graduating from Flinders Medical School in 1994 he spent several years working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Central Australia. In 2007 he moved to Beachport, where he continued working as a GP until 2012. 

He completed a Certificate 4 in Audio Engineering in 2002 and a Bachelor of Creative Arts (USQ) in 2018, majoring in music composition. In 2015 he joined the Beachport Ukulele Group (BUGS), learnt to play ukulele and completed Level 3 Teacher Training with the James Hill Ukulele Initiative. 

Now living back in Adelaide, he teaches group and private ukulele lessons and workshops, and is the musical director for UkestraSA, a community ukulele orchestra.