Indiana Jones Theme
June 1, 2008 · Print This Article
Before we get down to business, James Hill’s new website/ezine Ukulele, Yes! is up and running. I still haven’t managed to successfully sign up for the ezine itself, but it looks like it’s all online anyway. A bunch of good stuff in the first issue including an interview with Peter Luongo, , an arrangement of Rattle on the Stovepipe (splatters and squiggles only) and an article by John Kavanagh about me (there might be something about Ragtime in there as well).
With the new Indiana Jones film coming out and a couple of requests for it, I thought I’d take a stab at arranging it for the uke. To be honest, I didn’t think it would work on the uke. I’ve been trying to do a decent arrangement of Star Wars for the uke but haven’t come up with anything good enough. The Indiana Jones theme is similarly epic, John Williams stuff. But, with a bit of jumping around and finger twisting, it works pretty well. Make sure you let as many notes ring into each other as you can to get a extra sound out of it.
Great article by Mr. Kavanagh. Reinforced a couple things for me (especially the general “format” of rags).
I got hold of a copy of Rigk Sauer’s arrangement of The Entertainer and have learned it. (Not smooth yet, but memorized.) It’s great but he completely left out the third part. Once I get it smoothed out I’m going to work on figuring out the third part and/or convincing one of you tab wizards to have a go at it. I like how it sounds but the incompleteness bugs me.
Very nice. Check out my version (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DluXbQEgxkY) and ukeduke’s way better version (http://youtube.com/watch?v=DluXbQEgxkY)
Hobbit: I haven’t seen Rick’s version of it. Is it in a different key to the tab I did of Brian Hefferan’s version?
n0s0ap: Thanks for the links. Cool version you’ve got going on. And the hat just makes it even better.
Rigk’s version is in Bb. I believe the 3rd part follows the ragtime convention (as mentioned in John’s article) of changing key but I’m not sure and further, don’t know the key that it would be in if it does.
I can hear it in my head (when the voices don’t drown it out
) but don’t have the ear to know what key it’s in.
I have a wool fedora I like to wear to satisfy the “Wear a hat while Ukeing” rule, so to say that learning this excites me is an understatement. I am determined to nail this one!
Thanks for all you do here, Woodshed. You have helped a newb like myself tremendously.
Hobbit: I’ll have to take a look over it again sometime.
Lee: You’re very welcome.
I don’t know where else to ask this. I couldn’t find the answer on my own, but are the tabs on this site for soprano uke or bari uke?
I may just be daft.
They’re for soprano (or any other reentrant ukulele) unless it says otherwise.
its awesome!
but i never watched the movie and i really wanted too…….
and it is really really so wonderful its cool…
You really should watch the early movies. They’re classics. I haven’t seen the new one yet - that’s supposed to be terrible.