Jun/17/08
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Basia Bulat – Before I Knew


Basia Bulat – Before I Knew (Chords)

UPDATE: YouTube are featuring ukulele videos today. And totally stealing my shit.

More Canadian ukulele. Basia Bulat’s debut album, Oh, My Darling, kicks of with this short and sweet ukulele ditty.

The intro is pretty simple. You’re just playing the G,C and E strings open and sliding down the A string.

basia bulat intro ukulele tab

A similar thing is played during the outro but with triplets and an F chord making this a bit trickier.

basia bulat ukulele tab

I think it’s being played with a pick, so no fancy triplet strums. Each triplet is down, up, down which means you’ve got two down strokes next to each other.

7 Comments

  1. toaster June 17th, 2008 10:55 pm

    Did you post the correct outro image? The line above mentions triplets and an F chord, which is also shown in the pdf.

  2. Woodshed June 18th, 2008 6:25 am

    Thanks, toaster. *fixed*

  3. catherine June 18th, 2008 12:10 pm

    It’s like magic, today in class I was thinking that I wanted to check if anyone had these chords! Thanks!

  4. Woodshed June 18th, 2008 9:38 pm

    You’re welcome, catherine. Thinking about ukuleles in class? Tsk, tsk.

  5. Tanya January 21st, 2010 10:54 pm

    Just wondering what the strum pattern should be for the main part of the song?? I’m a newbie and have figured the rest out.. but am getting the hang of figuring out strumming.. umm.. yeah.

  6. Woodshed January 23rd, 2010 11:03 am

    Tanya: Try:

    d – d u – u d u

    Twice for each chord.

  7. Tanya February 15th, 2010 6:23 am

    Thanks for that – I wish there was a tutorial video for this one.. I’m from her hometown so this song has been really nice for me to learn some chords.. !

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