Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
May 1, 2008
Every so often, I like to do a series of ten Guitar Riffs for Ukulele. The idea with them isn’t to cover the original song, but to throw them in as a little comic relief. Throwing out a quick snatch of a riff people recognise but never expected to hear coming out of a ukulele is a great way to catch people’s attention.
For the first riff, it’s back to Ozzy. He has already cropped up twice in this series of posts with Paranoid and Iron Man, but this time it’s Randy Rhodes knocking out the riff.
This one seems to be quite popular with uke players. Check out the versions by Gio Gaynor and Seeso. My version is in the same key as Seeso’s, but played slightly differently. You can find his version of the tab here.
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For the picking on this, I use my thumb for the C string and alternate picking (alternating between index and middle finger picks) for the other notes.
OOOh! I LOVE when you do these riffs… Got any Brian May? Keep up the good work!
Haha this is righteous, I’ma use this for me friends.
They’ll wanna hear the whole thing too so I guess I’ll learns Seeso’s too.
Nice riff. Be great if you could chuck in some Jack White this time round or some Datsuns. Bring on the Garage Rock Ukulele!!
Holy cow, man. Yours is a lot easier.
Yeeees!
p9000: I’ve been working on a full solo version of BoRhap (for months on end), so I might include the riff from it.
Nelson: Have fun with it.
Rilrod: I might include Salute Your Solution. Seven Nation Army was in one of the earlier batches.
seeso: I’m very lazy. If there’s an easy way, I’ll play it that way.
Ian: WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
hmmmm…. master of puppets, sweet emotion, dr.feelgood, the borhap riff would be excellent.
I’ve already got all ten together for this time round (BoRhap is there), but there’s sure to be another one before too long.
Is there any way I could find this entire song for ukulele? I can only find guitar tabs.
for some reason the second bar with the E string doesnt sound right. I tuned it perfectly but it doesnt match what I hear or what its supposed to sound. the first bar sounds great though.
Vatsal: What would you suggest instead?
hm I dunno. I was just wondering if anybody else was experiencing something similar. I feel like I’m missing out. It just might be the tuning…
i made an easier but higher pitched version its only on two strings
though, because i modeled it on the E and A only instead. nice though
hey in GCEA tuning which is standard, the 2nd fret E sounds like open string A… how do i change that like what key is this supposed to go in…