Also gonna be learning about the ukulele Sir.
What's your name and who are you with my
name is Justin Pohaku Murphy and I play
ukulele for the San Diego Pool Academy and
I teach classes there as well. OK, so yeah,
so we're with the hula Academy here.
Kristen tell us a little bit about
the dancers, the ukulele and why.
It's also important to the the magic
of Maui, sure
sure. So we have.
We have classes that we teach hula,
Tahitian and of course ukulele.
We're lucky to have Uncle Pohaku.
So with our dancers they're gonna
be performing on fillet today.
OK, great. Uncle Pahlka is
gonna be performing live OK.
We thought it might be a a fun thing to
also give a little lesson here today.
Yes, please do. Hi Dana, go ahead.
So you know, I've dabbled in it,
but I'm really. I've dabbled in it.
OK, let's see like a couple of cords
so you'll have to still teach
me the novices need to know they
need to know C chord.
OK, we start with that.
So that's our ring finger on our
bottom string and the third fret.
OK OK, I'm gonna hold it a shot.
Your thumb on the back and we're
gonna do our thumb down like this.
That is not right.
OK, that's better.
OK, here we go.
She's seeing progress perfect.
Ohh not gonna take your middle
finger on the very top string
on the second fret right there.
OK, like that like this,
just your middle finger bihh
just the middle finger.
OK, that's much easier
way way up here way up right here.
Top front. Ohh top front.
OK Eric, maybe you should be doing this?
No it's up to see from the other side.
Yep and then move your
finger up just a little bit.
There you go there it is
and there's a minor chords.
Oh my God and an A minor. Piece
of cake. See how easy it is Oh my gosh
well drive strong yes all the seachord. OK
dude down up down up there
we go just your finger.
You wanna try a Hawaiian strong?
Yes, so that's down, down, up,
up, down, up, down, up, down,
up down down I'm coming here wow.
She's bringing Hawaii to our
backlog here and I love it.
I love it very good. It is so simple.
That's the best thing about
the ukulele is that it's easy to pick up.
It is easy to pick up, but the few lessons.
Learn a few chords you can play so
many songs with three or four chords.
How does this this instrument
is the sound of of
of Hawaii? I mean, right?
I mean, how is that and and
how is it so synonymous?
The ukulele, all all the
songs are written in Hawaii.
Majority are played with guitar with ukulele.
And so when I teach ukulele,
I teach the Hawaiian.
La La, which is the language?
Yeah, so they learn how to play songs
in Hawaiian and sing in Hawaiian
while they're playing the songs.
That's so iconic and everything
goes together so well.
And when you hear the ukulele
and you hear Hawaiian singing,
you think Hawaii.
You think Maui
telling you when you hear this
the music you see the ukulele
and you see the dancers Kristen?
You remind us people can get lessons right?
If they wanna learn the hula
dance for sure. The ukulele. We
do. Basic technique we teach
the the language as well and
then certainly choreography.
Awesome, we're gonna
should we get out of the way?
I'm gonna show you a
little choreography today.
We'll leave it to the pros.
We'll have a heel. OK,
talks about the love of seaweed.
OK, awesome, let's see it.
Hello.
KKR.
Aloha Kayla
Haley Powell
the.
That was so much fun, Kristen.
I mean, this is just got to make you smile.
Earlier I saw you over here going.
Yes, they're so good.
It's hard not to dance along.
I know, I know.
We were dancing along just so incredible.
The moves and everything.
There's a lot of work on it.
I mean you guys are awesome and
I'm sure it takes a lot of time to
go through that practice to get
the ukulele to kind of match up
with the dance moves and all that.
And I think the coolest part that
I learned last time you guys came
was that this isn't just you know,
singular hula lessons.
You're learning about the culture right
about the music that's I feel like
getting incorporates every aspect.
That's right, that's right.
So our dancers have we have
dancers that are brand new.
We have other dancers that have
dancer 20 years or more, right?
But what's nice is they they
certainly can dance together.
We tried to break down the choreography
so at any level that they can still
jump in and then they have just
more in their repertoire. Well,
she said, jump in. I think Dana
Marie said she wanted Jamie.
I thought I heard you say that
over here I wanted to to
jump in and you give us one.
Can you give us one move?
There we go to our basic cohodas.
OK so the arms are straight
across and you just don't
wanna cross your midline.
We're gonna pull our arm
back so you're not crossing your
midline we're gonna bend your
knees or knees have to be bent.
So we're in humility we're in IHOP position
now we're going to be doing 4 steps.
OK so we're going to step 30
seconds left together apart
together and stick together good.
Before we go remarkably where
they are, here we go.
We are San Diego Hula Academy,
SD hula.com.
I don't get it. How are we kinda?
Get out of the way. I'm going to the
pros so we're gonna leave you with this.
Together