Guitar Riffs for Ukulele: The Beatles – Come Together/Day Tripper

May 22, 2008

I’m breaking my ‘no Beatles’ rule once again for this post. There’s no denying that they came up with some great riffs and these are a pair of humdingers.

Come Together

The Beatles come together ukulele tab

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Seeso did a top version of this song. That’s a great example of how to fill out a riff to make it work as a full song on the ukulele. But for our purposes, I’ve stuck with the simpler single note version.

Day Tripper

The Beatles Day Tripper Riff tab

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For this tab, I’ve taken advantage of the re-entrant string and barred my first finger across the third fret after the first note. I use my thumb to pick the G and C strings, my index finger on the E string and middle finger on the A string.

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12 Responses to “Guitar Riffs for Ukulele: The Beatles – Come Together/Day Tripper”

  1. Jimmy on May 22nd, 2008 7:58 pm

    Creepy, I was just listening to Abbey Road and saw this blog post. Weird coincidence, eh? Also, you get bonus points in life every time to you link to Seeso.

  2. LonnaB on May 22nd, 2008 11:04 pm

    Jimmy- I listen to Abbey Road all the time anymore. It always works.

    Woodshed- sweet! I’ve been working on seeso’s tabs just this week (thanks, seeso) and I always like to have a couple of different tabs to look at. I find that really helps my learning process.

  3. Woodshed on May 23rd, 2008 8:12 am

    I must admit, I rarely listen to The Beatles anymore. I had a phase in my youth where I listened to very little but The Beatles and I think I burned myself out on them.

  4. seeso on May 23rd, 2008 2:20 pm

    Thanks for the link, Uke Hunt! :D

  5. The Dude on May 23rd, 2008 3:24 pm

    http://www.brookadams.com/jumping-flea/songs/come%20together.pdf

    this is a pretty sweet version. check check check it

  6. Woodshed on May 23rd, 2008 5:23 pm

    Seeso: You’re welcome, as always.

    Dude: Thanks for the link.

  7. Andrea on May 24th, 2008 5:02 am

    Why on earth would you have a No Beatles rule in the first place???

  8. Woodshed on May 24th, 2008 8:46 am

    Andrea: Because there’s plenty of Beatles ukulele stuff on the internet already.

  9. p9000 on May 27th, 2008 6:57 pm

    Thanks for THAT riff, ‘Shed… at the Portland Uke Fest they call all the local folks “Day Trippers…” So, this year I’m coming armed and ready! I’ve got a real reason, for taking the easy out, yeah.

  10. Woodshed on May 27th, 2008 8:24 pm

    Have a great time at PUF, p9000.

  11. poophead on April 22nd, 2009 4:34 am

    what do the loops under the 5 and the 7 mean????

  12. Woodshed on April 22nd, 2009 11:41 am

    poophead: They’re hammer-ons.

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