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Kate Nash - Foundations

February 21, 2008 · Print This Article

Kate Nash - Foundations (Chords)

There’s no doubt about the highlight of last night’s Brit Awards; “You remember Kenzie? His little face beaming?” The Brit School love-in was getting a bit much. And it’s great to see one band willing to goad the powers that be into cutting their speech short.

Having said that, I don’t have anything against the Brit School. There are a few killer songs that have come out of it, which makes it worth putting up with The Feeling in my book. Foundations is one of the songs that makes it worth putting up with them (and maybe even The Kooks as well).

The chords are dead simple. The tricky part is working out how the hell the lyrics fit around them and adopting an unconvincing cockerney accent.

For the strumming at the start, you can just play each chord once. When it gets going, I like to use down, down, up, up, down. Which sounds like this slow:

And this up to speed:

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11 Responses to “Kate Nash - Foundations”

  1. newbie on February 21st, 2008 7:40 pm

    arfffff that accent!

  2. zym on February 21st, 2008 8:13 pm

    its like listening to female Mike Skinner!

    The Artic Monkeys thing however was VERY funny

  3. Woodshed on February 22nd, 2008 2:45 pm

    I don’t care what anyone says, I love this song.

  4. Heather on February 22nd, 2008 4:15 pm

    What’s Brit School?

  5. zym on February 22nd, 2008 4:57 pm

    @ heather

    The ‘Brit School’ is the “London School for Performing Arts & Technology” - basically its an independent, state funded arts and technology school that loads of people like Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Kate Nash, Dane Bowers, The Kooks, The Feeling etc all went to at some point in the past.

    I dare say that if Grange Hill was still going it would be full of kids from there too ;)

  6. Woodshed on February 22nd, 2008 5:53 pm

    Dane Bowers =)) God Lord, I did not know that. I may have to revise my opinion.

  7. Raisins on February 28th, 2008 1:01 am

    I am pretty new at uke. I can play the chords just fine, but i have no idea how the strum pattern would go to this song. Any help?

  8. Woodshed on March 2nd, 2008 3:17 pm

    Hi Raisins.

    For the strumming at the start, you can just play each chord once. When it gets going, I like to use down, down, up, up, down. Which sounds like this slow:

    http://ukulelehunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/foundationsslow.mp3

    And this up to speed:

    http://ukulelehunt.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/foundationsfast.mp3

    Hope that helps.

  9. Raisins on March 13th, 2008 1:55 am

    Awesome, thanks for the help

  10. helen on July 6th, 2008 11:23 pm

    i am a beginner in ukulele and i haven’t tried to play this song yet
    but lol wish me luck!

  11. Woodshed on July 7th, 2008 11:03 pm

    Good luck, Helen.

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