The YinYanBand is fun & friendly collective spreading joy & positivity through music & creativity! We started in 2018 by giving away some ukuleles & running 1 hour crash courses which has lead to multiple bands that perform at gigs, festivals & events and hundreds of people have amazed themselves at our sessions – maybe thousands, we never count as we’re enjoying ourselves too much!
Learning a new skill and making music is a powerful way of reducing stress while boosting your brain power, wellbeing, community & creativity. Within 60 minutes of picking up a ukulele total beginners are playing songs they love, leaving any stress or worries far behind.
Of all the sessions YinYan run (yoga, pilates, dance, arts & crafts, meditation, mindfulness, qigong, and more) our ukulele sessions have the MOST positive impact on how people are feeling – on average people go from feeling 5.1 out of 10 before a music session, to feeling 9.2 out of 10 afterwards…an 80% improvement!
Private sessions are available for your team/business/event (for info contact us) and Public YinYan Band sessions are listed on our Eventbrite page – at these you will get all the skills you need to start strumming. You don’t need any musical experience, talent, ability or even a ukulele as we have ones you can borrow.
Songbooks we use/have used (if you’re coming to a session we’ve always got some printed beginner books you can borrow):
- The YinYan Band beginner songbook (info & song sheets – all you need to get started) this is where you get started with 4 beginner chords, opening the door to LOADS of songs!
- The YinYan Band sing-a-long songbook (Dec 2023)
- YinYan Christmas songs (Dec 2023)
- The YinYan Band Songbook (more than just beginner stuff!)
- YinYan Band retreat song book (all bangers!)
- YinYan Band Christmas songbook (2019)
- The D’ukes of Hazzard Busking Book v3 (who helped inspire the YinYan Band) have an open jam every Thursday from 8pm in Ma Egertons in Liverpool – it’s mega!
- Ukulele Wednesday have two open jam sessions every week in London and a cracking song book!
- The legendary Jim’s song book…so many songs!!!
- Discover the many benefits of being in a band!
