Eddie Vedder - Rise
July 13, 2008 · Print This Article
Eddie Vedder - Rise (Complicated Chords)
Eddie Vedder - Rise (Basic Chords)
I was all ready to write up Pearl Jam’s ukulele song Soon Forget, until I started getting harassed for Rise from the soundtrack of Into the Wild. And why not? It’s a magnificent song.
Rise is played on the mandolin. The mandolin is tuned in fifths (GDAE) which makes it quite tricky to transfer to the uke, so I’ve done two versions of the chords. One of them is just the very basic chords (G, C and D).
In the other I’ve done my best to recreate what he’s playing on the mandolin and make it a bit more uke friendly. The basic chords remain the same but there are notes added on to give it extra flavour (and also to match the melody in parts).
The best thing to do is take a look at both versions and come up with your own favourite way to play it. I think using the Cadd9 is pretty much essential (and easy) and the C C-5 C5 C6 rising bit sounds great.
Uke Gal Carol has done an excellent version of Rise which you can listen to here.
Requested by Andrew, Rilrod and Whitney
THANK YOU thank you thank you for this! I love this album but felt like I was the only one in the world who’d heard of it or owned it!
Can’t wait to tackle the chords and learn some new ones along the way by the look of your transcription!
Great job!
AWE-freaking-SOME! Thanks a quadrillion. It sounds killer, I’ve been playing it off the rooftops and on street corners in exuberance. I don’t suppose you’re working on some of those other song requests? (thanks again. keep this website amazing)
Pearl Jam is my favorite band and you posted this on my birthday, July 13. What a great birthday present - thank you!
THANKS WOODSHED
Your site is a gem. There is a lot of ukulele stuff out there. But you are the one that really produces and finds new things. I was googling for tabs for ukulele music just seeing what was out there. I went to youR tabs section and it has really grown.
THANKS again,
Jeff (Member Berkeley Ukulele Club & Ukuele Club in Santa Cruz, California)
at the risk of sounding 10 years younger than i am - AWESOME
Jules: Good luck with it.
andrew: Yeah, I’m working my way through them. I have a LOAD.
Nate: Happy Birthday for yesterday.
Jeff: Thanks for the kind words.
zym: Dude, like totally.
Hey there,
So glad you recognized this one…I did played my own arrangement of it of it last winter…see my December 12, 2007 entry on my blog: http://www.ukegal.blogspot.com I’ll compare it to your more complicated chords version. However, I transposed to key of D, a better one for me to sing in!
Excellent stuff, Carol. I’ve added a link to it in the post.
Thanks a million for this song. You did a super job. A great help to me. This is the best site for sure. Please keep up the good work.
Cheers again……Kieran (Ireland)
Thanks for that, Kieran. I appreciate it.
I can play the simple GCD version of this but I don’t understand the instructions posted in last paragraph.
What is: Cadd9
Woodshed……I’m sure you are up to your tits in requests, but you must do Soon Forget when you get the chance.
Go raibh maith agut a chara !!
Kieran (Ireland)
Adam: Cadd9 = 0203. You can find the more complicated chords in the other pdf.
Kieran: There’s tab for Soon Forget here.
Thanks a mil.!…………Kieran
Not to spoil your fun, but Rise isnt played on a mandolin, its played on a fender electric tenor guitar/uke of sorts, here’s him playing the instrument, though its a different song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po6U4EeQ820
I’m trying to figure out exactly what instrument he’s playing though, is that just a tenor guitar tuned like a mandolin? is it some weird electric uke?
Benjamin: That’s a ukulele he’s playing in that clip (a Tululele I believe). It’s certainly not what he uses for Rise.