Eduardo Garcia Espinoza - UKELELE WORKSHOP: Strumming - A Rhythm Primer 
Sunday, September 25, 10:20 - 11:20 AM

Level: All levels welcome

Requisites: Knowledge of Basic chords 

Playing a piece of music with the correct tempo and “feel” may not come naturally to new musicians at first...or even after years of playing! In this workshop, we'll work on simple exercises to help you to master the rhythm patterns of popular styles of music. A variety of approaches and practice tips will help unlock the mystery of strumming your instrument like a pro! BRING YOUR UKE.

About Eduardo Garcia Espinoza

Eduardo is a multi-instrumentalist originally from Mexico that arrived in Vancouver in April 2017. On his journey, he studied and played music in a large variety of environments, worlds, and languages. Being both classically and traditionally trained, he soon got active in a wide diversity of music projects in Mexico, teaching, performing and writing music. Eduardo played several different traditional string instruments with ‘Amate’, a traditional mariachi based in Guadalajara, that performs regularly inside and outside of Mexico. Parallel to that, he played the cello on the ‘Victor Manuel Medeles’ chamber orchestra, of which he was also the arranger/composer of almost all of their repertoire, and the repertoire of other choirs and ensembles in Mexico. During 2017, he collaborated on the book ‘Tsenten Ajab’, a book of studies and arrangements of both traditional and modern music for the Jarana Huasteca, a traditional folk instrument from Mexico’s Huasteco region that was published in 2018.

Nowadays, he is fully committed to the Ukulele. He was the founder/director of the Academia de Ukuleles de la Ribera (Lakeside Ukulele Academy), a self-financed music school that provides instruments and free music lessons to all children in his community and that continues to this day.

In September 2017, he became a teacher at Ruby’s Ukes, based in Vancouver, B.C., and started conducting/arranging music for the Ruby’s Ukulele Orchestra in 2019. He has participated on the Vancouver Ukulele Festival in 2018 and 2019, the Ajijic Ukulele Retreat (Mexico) in 2017 and 2019, Coquitlam Ukulele mini festival (Canada) in 2019, Beyond Trad (Canada) music camp in 2018 and 2019, the Seoul International Aloha Ukulele Festival (South Korea) in 2019, and virtually on the 2020 and 2021 editions, and was featured on the International spotlight of the Ukulele Festival Hawai’i in 2021, among other online ukulele events organized in Japan, Brazil, Canada and USA.