Jens Lekman – Your Arms Around Me (Ukulele Version)
November 14, 2007
Jens Lekman – Your Arms Around Me (Chords)
I have to admit to being a little disappointed with Jens Lekman’s latest album, Night Fall Over Kortedala. Not because of the songs but because of the low ukulele content. I admit it, I’ve got a one track mind. But there are a few uke-heavy versions of the songs floating around. You can pick up versions of Your Arms Around Me and You Are The Light on False 45th.
And it’s from that version of Your Arms Around Me that I’ve taken the chords (although they’re the same for the album version). The song is in D-tuning and the chords are straight forward. I’ve written D6 in the tab but he’s actually moving between D6 and Dmaj7 (like D6 but with the B string played at the second fret).
The little solo he plays in the middle goes (a bit like) this:
Lekman adds quite a lot of fancy doodles around these chords. If you want a basic strumming pattern, a good one to go for would be down, down, up, up, down. Here’s that pattern played slowly, then up to speed.
Requested by Ben
Since part of my split personality is Swedish, I do have a special nostalgia for all things Swedish. I do have 2 JL CD’s and I enjoy his soft voice and bizarre story lines. Perhaps we should be glad to be beginning to share recording time with the 6-string family.
I have another CD, to be named in a later comment because I am hiding it from myself. That has a real modern feel and (3-4) songs with ukulele intros or ukulele in the main song.
I have a question on your notation of Jen’s song. The dual string segments (GCEA) of (xx57), (xx35), (xx23). Do you have a name for these? I have also seen (x00x), (x21x), (x34x), (x55x) = (xx10) in some tablature. Could you dwelve into the 2-string playing sometime?
Thanks,
jnoteast
jeff
LL
The point was, the ukulele is creeping in. Do a eBay search of titles and descriptions and you find many albums with ukulele accompaniment.
I believe those dual string sequences are major thirds (four semitone intervals). And they’re definitely a nice exercise to practice. Great song by the way.
You’re right about them being thirds (almost all of them are thirds). Some of them are major thirds, some are minor thirds.
I’ll take your advice, Jeff, and do a post about it sometime.
Hey I did an interview with Jens a few weeks ago and I asked him about the whole deal with him playing the ukelele, he basically said that he’s stopped playing it. He said he only started playing it because it was easy to take with him and he didn’t have to check it on airplanes… soo…. sorry!
Darn, that’s sad to hear. Cool interview though.
And you win at blog names:)
[...] Disappointingly, there was no ukulele on Jens Lekman’s most recent album Night Falls Over Kortedala. Fortunately, this solo ukulele version cropped up on the intertubes and blew the album version out of the water. I wrote up the chords for Your Arms Around Me here. [...]
Such a lovely song. Such a pain in the arse to sing. Damn Jens and his octaves.
Al, Is this Jens L song tab in 3/4 time? Your arms around me.
Jeff: It’s in 4/4 time. It’s a bit confusing with the crochet triplets in some bars.
DuckyI: All songs are a pain in the arse for me to sing. I can’t sing at all.
Hey is anyone out there able to post the whole song or the first section of the song? Im relatively new to the ukulele and would love to know the notes or tabs to this song.
Rock on Jens!
is it ok to use standard tuning and use the same chords as guitar? they were D, Em, G, D, A. im new to ukulele and would appreciate some feedback.
kieran: Yes, a D chord is a D chord whatever tuning you’re in and whatever instrument you play it on.
huh, which chords are you using?
i thing you use
a d f# b
and your first chord is a g the 2nd is a d
am i right?and how does it continue?
joogle: Click where it says ‘Jens Lekman – Your Arms Around Me (Chords)’ in red.
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh:D
shame on me^^
joogle: Don’t worry about it. A lot of people miss them.