Over the last few years, Rose has taught ukulele in numerous Australian ukulele clubs including in Victoria (Barwon Heads, Wangaratta, Wodonga, Euroa/Violet Town, Dandenongs, Bendigo), NSW (The Channon, Byron, Bellingen, Blue Mountains, Milton), SA (Adelaide) as well as for the Dunedin Uke Club in NZ.

She has also taught at festivals including the Cygnet Folk Festival, Yackandandah Folk Festival, at Turrumurra Music Camp where she taught an original composition to a class of ninety five people and at the Natimuk Frinj Festival, where she trained a group of locals for NUMB - the Natimuk Ukulele Marching Band. (pictured above)

Rose also ran an 8 week course in Hobart through the city council’s 50s & Better Centre, where twenty-five mature aged participants, none of whom had ever played a musical instrument before, gained confidence through music and had an excellent time with the ukulele.

Rose teaches both beginners and advanced ukulele workshops.


For beginners, she teaches a few chords and different strumming and picking patterns.


For more advanced players, Rose shows more difficult right hand strumming and picking including the classic ukulele triplet as well as variations on a ‘clawhammer’ banjo inspired technique.


Rose likes to emphasise the importance of listening to the whole sound when people are playing in a ukulele ensemble.  She also plays around with the dynamics that are possible and introduces the idea of arrangements.  Rather than the whole group ‘chunkachunking’ away at full volume for an entire song, Rose teaches how to break a song up into parts, which encourages listening and more ‘thoughtful’ playing within a group.
Rose’s workshops are mostly one offs (usually a two hour session), mainly because she doesn’t stay anywhere long enough to run a course!


Rose gives detailed photocopied notes for all her workshops so people can later go over everything in their own time.
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