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 […]
Archive for July, 2008
Ukulele videos from The Be Arthurs, Ukulele Bartt, Ukulele Ike and Ukuelelezaza and others.
And the winner is *Trumpets Blaze*: Bill Weigel for his review of the Ohana CK-50G Concert Ukulele. It was a really tough decision. There were a load of great entires – I wanted at least six people to win the uke. I have to give special mention to Roberto Katigbak and Ken Middleton for their […]
Some dizzyingly expensive instruments from MGM this week: a pair of Lyon and Healy 5k ukuleles $22,000 the pair, and a John D’Angelico Tiple at $30,000. On the subject of tiples, there’s a Kamaka Tiple up for sale. The cavalcade of oddly shaped Lyon and Healy ukuleles continues this week with a Lyon and Healy […]
Chord diagrams, new blogs and other ukulele news.
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 […]
The Blues Scale is very similar to the minor pentatonic scale. There’s only one new note: the flattened fifth (also known as the devil’s interval). C Blues Scale The extra note fits in to the minor pentatonic like this: Looks like this in tab: And sounds like this: C Blues Scale Here’s me having a […]
The Beatles – Girl (Chords) When Amber requested this one, my first thought was, “More Beatles ukulele? There must be chords up for this somewhere.” I had a search around and didn’t much much like what I found. Besides, who could say no to that face? It might be a little redundant to say, but […]
Competition update: The ‘Review Your Ukulele’ contest is now closed. There have been loads of great entries. I’ll be looking over all of them and will announce the result on Friday (probably – it’ll be a tough decision). Everyone who entered should have their Rick tab. If you didn’t get it something must have got […]
For those of you like the me of a few months ago who haven’t seen The Wire, each series has its own version of the Tom Waits song Way Down in the Hole. Season 1: Blind Boys of Alabama The first series’ theme was performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama. The album that this […]
