Ukulele Artifact Speech
Cultural Artifact Speech Outline: Ukulele
I. Introduction
A. Attention Getter: Did you know that learning to play an instrument provides you with many benefits? It can increase your memory capacity, enhance your coordination, and it’s simply fun!
B. Revealed Object: Today I will be telling you all about the Ukulele. I play this along with guitar, piano, and singing but the ukulele holds a special place in my heart.
C. Thesis Statement: Playing the ukulele is relatively easy to learn and can be a whole lot of fun.
D. Preview of Main Points: First, I will explain exactly how a ukulele works and how to play a few chords. Secondly, I will tell you why I identify with the culture.
II. Body
A. Main Point 1: As you can see, the Ukulele is a four-stringed instrumented that is made similar to a guitar, yet it seems to be quite a bit easier to play than a guitar.
1. How it Works: Like the guitar and other string instruments, the ukulele is shaped out of certain woods or plastics in, generally, a figure-eight body shape in all different sizes and with a sound hole in order to amplify the sound. The nylon strings, that most ukuleles have, are tightened to create the pitch needed for each string. The neck of the ukulele has frets so when you push your fingers down on the strings in the frets you get a different note. This allows you to create chords.
2. Explanation of Chords: The first chord that I, and probably everyone who plays, first learned is the C chord. The chords on the ukulele are a lot easier than playing chords on the guitar do to how small the neck is and the fact that there are only four strings. If you learn even four of the easiest chords you can play a number of songs, probably every Taylor Swift song… So now I’m going to show you that with these four easy chords (C, G, Am, and F) you can play several songs. (Demonstration) As you can see, the ukulele really is quite easy and even you can learn how to play it!
B. Main Point 2: Now that I’ve showed
I. Introduction
A. Attention Getter: Did you know that learning to play an instrument provides you with many benefits? It can increase your memory capacity, enhance your coordination, and it’s simply fun!
B. Revealed Object: Today I will be telling you all about the Ukulele. I play this along with guitar, piano, and singing but the ukulele holds a special place in my heart.
C. Thesis Statement: Playing the ukulele is relatively easy to learn and can be a whole lot of fun.
D. Preview of Main Points: First, I will explain exactly how a ukulele works and how to play a few chords. Secondly, I will tell you why I identify with the culture.
II. Body
A. Main Point 1: As you can see, the Ukulele is a four-stringed instrumented that is made similar to a guitar, yet it seems to be quite a bit easier to play than a guitar.
1. How it Works: Like the guitar and other string instruments, the ukulele is shaped out of certain woods or plastics in, generally, a figure-eight body shape in all different sizes and with a sound hole in order to amplify the sound. The nylon strings, that most ukuleles have, are tightened to create the pitch needed for each string. The neck of the ukulele has frets so when you push your fingers down on the strings in the frets you get a different note. This allows you to create chords.
2. Explanation of Chords: The first chord that I, and probably everyone who plays, first learned is the C chord. The chords on the ukulele are a lot easier than playing chords on the guitar do to how small the neck is and the fact that there are only four strings. If you learn even four of the easiest chords you can play a number of songs, probably every Taylor Swift song… So now I’m going to show you that with these four easy chords (C, G, Am, and F) you can play several songs. (Demonstration) As you can see, the ukulele really is quite easy and even you can learn how to play it!
B. Main Point 2: Now that I’ve showed