Learn to Play Freight Train with Lil' Rev ONLINE!

This one hour class is dedicated to an American folk and blues standard, Freight Train, originally done by Elizabeth Cotton. Lil’ Rev's arrangement uses simple 1st position chords, when strummed in sequence, sounds out the melody. This class will also show the student how to create variations on a theme using strum hand techniques like tremolo, roll strokes, and triple strums. Handouts provided. 

Join us each Thursday and Monday throughout May for live-streamed ukulele classes brought to you by Lil' Rev and Mead Library. Classes will meet from 6:15-7:15pm and can be found on the Mead Facebook page by clicking HERE. Check out the entire list of classes below! Note: No class on Memorial Day.

May 4th: The Vaudeville Uke Flip & Shake
May 7th: Intros, Endings, Turnarounds & Vamps
May 11th: Lil Rev's 2 Chord Jamboree
May 14th: Tremolo Made Easy
May 18th: Learn to Play Freight Train
May 21st: The Simplified Fan Stroke
May 28th: The Doo-Wop Strum & Chord Sequence

Lil' Rev was born and bred in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with dual passions for music and education.   After college he taught music to grade schoolers at the Milwaukee Jewish Day School and served as an adjunct music historian and lecturer at The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  After many years of performing in the Midwest, Lil' Rev left his teaching jobs behind to pursue his musical dreams full-time.  Since then, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles, visited every state in the Union (except Alaska and Hawaii), wrote almost a dozen instructional books, recorded over a dozen albums and taught thousands of students ukulele and harmonica.