Julia Nunes/The Foundations - Build Me Up, Buttercup
May 29, 2008 · Print This Article
Julia Nunes/The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup (Chords)
I have to admit that, since I featured her first uke video way back when, I’ve neglected Julia Nunes. Truth be told, I’m still a little on the fence about her. Nevertheless, there’s no denying the charm of this version of Build Me Up, Buttercup.
These chords are the Nunes version, but they’re very similar to the original version by The Foundations (they’re both in the key of C).
Get off the fence! She’s cute!
Okay, she strums with a guitar pick. But give her time: she’s only a freshman in college…
Did you see that she’s opening for Ben Folds? Pretty swell. Gp
Why, oh why, didn’t I have an ukulele in my dorm room?
I think of the trouble I could have stayed out of…
This video is darn right adorable.
Fantastic recording and such a good example of just what you can do with a uke, especially if you have such a good singing voice!
Steve, Ukuleles Canberra, AUSTRALIA
she plays with a pick, thats forgivable when you consider she sings well and plays well as well!
i think a lot of people are aprehensive with her because shes a pretty girlie personally.
shes great though, maybe we should send her some felt picks?
I agree with Woodshed, but I am in Julia’s debt for inspiring me to work out Spoon’s “The Underdog”, which works amazingly well for solo ukulele.
I find this girl tolerably goofy.
Gary: Still on the fence, I’m afraid. As for the cute issue, she’s one of the few ukulele girls I’ve never had a crush on.
LonnaB: I’m not sure I want to know what trouble you got in. Who am I kidding? Of course I do.
Steve: Thanks for mentioning Uke Hunt on your site.
Cardboardfrog: I think we could stretch to some felt picks between us.
Mike: That’s definitely one thing to thank her for.
Iain: That’s a good way of putting it.
I like her a lot because she makes the ukulele look like fun, which it is. I’m sorry but those terribly serious guys with the intricate fingerpicking and the Beatle’s songbooks are booorrrinnngg. There, I’ve said it. Maybe, if I keep practicing I’ll become a serious musician, but I hope not. Until, then, even though I’m not particularly cute myself, I want to be like Julia Nunes.
Don’t get me wrong, I love your lesson books and the theory stuff you post, but the ukulele is still the instrument of innocent merriment.
XXOO
Whatever else you can say about her, there is no doubt that shes having fun when she plays.
Better than hot buttered toast. Absolutely delightful. Who cares about the stupid pick. Get real, she’s real.
Am I nuts or is she not playing the chords listed on the pdf? The first chord doesn’t sound like just C, and the second chord she’s not even fingering the same as the one listed…
Is the fence painful?
Julia absolutely rocks and I very tempted to learn Uke and lead worship with it at church to see the reaction
Julia is an absolute cutie pie….with a voice like an angel…in a quirky kinda way.
Listening to her puts a smile on this old mans face every time….
H.M III
Julia is even more wonderful than she seems. And music is about that joy of creating something beautiful. Its silly to judge a contemporary pop artist on their technique. She shouldn’t have to be Ravi Shankar or Yo Yo Ma for her music to be considered good and legitimate! I wish her the best not because of her talent, which is great, but because of her fearlessness in opening herself up artistically and personally to whoever takes the time to listen. That’s an artist as far as I’m concerned.
shes in college? haha i thought she was 8
I’m still new at the ukulele, and would really like to learn this song, but I cant get the strum pattern down. Does anybody know what it is?
I honestly didn’t like her at first. It was her voice.
But she honestly grew on me! She inspires me to have fun on my uke when I get bored with Beruit covers :]. And now I love her voice! Especially for Say Anything covers.
So chill out everyone :D.