Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets

July 10, 2008 · Print This Article

Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets (Chords)

There are a couple of great ukulele tunes on Bishop Allen’s The Broken String album: Click, Click, Click, Click (which you can download on their website) and Butterfly Net.

Of the two, Butterfly Nets is by far the easiest to play - all baby’s first ukulele chords.

The version in the record is slightly different from the one in the video. As well as being longer, the album version is tuned slightly sharp and includes this little fingerpicking bit in the intro:

Bishop Allen ukulele tab

Strumming

A good, basic strumming pattern for this song would be down, down, up, up, down, up. Like this:

Suggested by Sam

If this is your first visit here, you can find the chords/tab in those posts by clicking on the song title in red.

Comments

8 Responses to “Bishop Allen - Butterfly Nets”

  1. Anna on July 11th, 2008 12:52 am

    I’m kinda lame and can’t pick up strumming patterns for the life of me. Would you mind mapping it out for me. Thanks.

  2. Chad on July 11th, 2008 1:41 am

    I’m with Anna. I can’t figure out strum patterns either. Is there a trick for figuring them out?

  3. maduke on July 11th, 2008 8:24 am

    strum-pattern-posts! strum-pattern-posts! strum-pattern-posts would be awesome!

  4. Woodshed on July 12th, 2008 4:16 pm

    Anna: I’ve added a bit to the post about the strumming pattern.

    Chad and maduke: I’ll have to have a think about the strum pattern post. I mostly just do it on instinct. Make them up as I go along.

  5. Anna on July 12th, 2008 9:01 pm

    Thank you so much!

  6. Woodshed on July 14th, 2008 6:20 pm

    You’re welcome, Anna.

  7. slownsilent on February 6th, 2009 6:28 pm

    This is really great. I just found out about this song while browsing through, and I just fell in love with it. Thanks for the chords. :]

  8. Woodshed on February 7th, 2009 9:19 am

    slownsilent: You’re welcome.

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