Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’s recent ukulele session for Le Soir featured a cover of Justice’s D.A.N.C.E. and it was a bit of a cracker. The requests came in and here it is.
The first thing you’ll have to do to play this is to start attacking the tuning pegs. He’s in a tuning that I’ve never come across before: A, B, F#, B. That’s a D-tuning with the D string tuned down three frets to B giving an open B7 tuning. But even that’s not exactly right as he’s tuned a little flat as well.
Once you’ve got that done, the intro goes like this:
The chords for the verse are a simplified version of the intro. It’s very sparse, just the two B strings open with a descending note on the F# string.
The chorus opens up the sound a little by adding a note on top of those chords.
Note the five at the side of the first chord. That means that the chord diagram starts at the fifth fret (so you are fretting at the fifth and seventh frets).
When you’re strumming these, keep a steady up down rhythm going. You can create a funky, syncopated effect by muting some of the strums (covering the strings with you left hand fingers so that the strings just produce a click when you play them).
If you don’t want to mess with the tuning too much, you could just tune the C-string down three frets to A and capo at the second fret (or just play it in the key of A).
If you are desperate to keep the ukulele in C tuning, you could play the intro like this:
Requested by Cardboardfrog and ukulellama.
Thank you! This song will be quite an endeavor, but I can’t wait to start. Great work Woodshed!