To answer Vampire Weekend’s question, Lynne Truss and no one else. But plenty, of people, give a, fuck about, Vampire Weekend,s Oxford Comma, so I decided, to give it, a write, up,
Dead simple chords for this one (G, C, D and Am). And the first part of the solo works really well as a ukulele strumming solo.
The easiest way to play this is to keep your first finger barred across at the 7th fret the whole way.
Thanks, Robert.
very nice, good work on the solo too ^^,
Lynne truss is a tit as a side note, provided the meaning is conveyed in a fashion it can be understood it doesn’t matter how punctuated it is.
She has spawned a generation of prescriptivist grammar fascists and it irritates me, Language is forever changing and Lynne truss Can’t stop it!
AL,Thanks for the Hallelujah ,its beautiful and not to hard to play, and sing.Do you think Vampire Wknd. ” I stand corrected “could get done on the uke? I also wanted to let you know that even you lose your spot at the top of the 50,this site is by far the coolest ,hippest ,and wittiest uke site on the web. And as you mentioned earlier, this site is dedicated solely to the ukulele Regards Rob
lol i see what you did there, nice work
Cardboardfrog: I’m not allowed to hate Lynne Truss. My Mum hung out with her in Greece when she was writing Eats, Shoots… Luckily, she doesn’t read the blog.
rob: It should work. There are chords for it here.
Smeear: Thanks.
Thanks for the link
how do you strum to the first verse?
A couple of misprints there – the second chord is D, not C. Same in the 3rd line, throughout the song. And the repeating G’s on line 2 of verse 2 should be a G and C. Otherwise, fantastic.
I’m sortof a noob, but I’m strumming it sort of sparse:
G–G–G-D–D–D-G–G–G-C–C–C-
then at the chorus part i switch to constant eighths.
rob: Not sure I entirely agree. I’ll have to look it over again.
I am a beginning uke player and I would love to see a Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa chord spread like this one. Help me out masterful gods of the ukulele.
i agree with hjm completely, for i am also sort of a beginner/not very good
HJM and Imogen: Okay, since that’s two requests I may well do it.
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strumming pattern help?
the chords are great but i have no idea how i should be strumming. can anyone help me?
If Lynne Truss really gave a fuck about an oxford comma, the book would be called “Eats, Shoots, and Leaves” rather than “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”. Just sayin’.
Tinyfolk: That’s a very good point.
THANK YOU for posting a song by Vampire Weekend!!!! I saw them in concert a while ago here in Hawaii, and have been in love ever since. My sister and I are some of the only ones here that listen to them, and now we can play Oxford Comma on our Ukes!!!!! thank you thank you thank you!
Erika: Glad you liked it.
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strumming pattern?
I never noticed this on your website but it’s my favorite song so could you please tell me what strumming to do and could you put an mp3 of the strumming as well because I really wanna learn this song
This is great, thanks a lot for that…but I really need the stumming pattern because I’m very new to playing the uke and I can’t figure it out myself. So thanks in advance.
Seems like the strumming pattern is just DDUP along with the beat, and you can continue that the whole way, or go to a simple DUDU in the chorus.
Thank you so much! =)
DDUP? What does P mean?
Wow, I have progressed really quickly thanks to this chord sheet! Thankyou!
Also, for me the closest strum pattern is D.D.U..U.D
Sahds: You’re welcome!
May I be cheeky and ask if you could possibly decipher the chords for a favourite song of mine? Pretty please? I have tried to work something out, but I am hopeless. It sounds like the kind of song which would sound good on a ukulele http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQpBzbwyHk Brandon Flowers version of a Killers song – Jenny was a friend of mine. It’s o.k if you can’t, you probably get loads of requests, but it’s worth a shot :)
Hi! I know you’ve been asked this many times, but what exactly is the strumming pattern? I’ve been having trouble figuring it out. Thank you!!!
The solo is great! Has anyone figured out the second part of the solo?
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Bravo on the oxford comma Al