GUGUG Week: Are Friends Electric?
November 25, 2008
GUGUG/Gary Numan – Are Friends Electric? (Chords)(PDF)
I think I’ll have to do a Beirut on GUGUG at some point and write up all the songs they’ve done. All their songs are fun and easy to play and would work great as ukulele club songs.
I worked out the GUGUG version of Are Friends Electric? from their Are Friends Acoustic? version. But the uke parts for the two are pretty much identical.
Strumming Pattern
For the verses: you can go down, down, down on the C chord (with the last down being very short) and up, up, up, down, up, down on the Gm.
Without the chords and played slowly, it sounds like this:
With the chords, like this:
For the ‘uh-uh’ section: the easiest thing to do is two down strums like Fin does.
For the spoken word section: down, down, down, up, down, up should see you through.
Brilliant, cheers Al
Finding out the chords to ‘are friends’ was on my to do list after seeing that vid the other day
You’re welcome, Andy.
Start that songbook with “Night Train To Cairo”, one of the first of GUGUG’s efforts I discovered and certainly a favorite. Always thought it should be worked up with “Istanbul, Not Constantinople” as a Mid East medley.
Keep up the good work. This site is becoming a real favorite to wake up to on my computer in the morning.
Great post, and I’ve high hopes for the rest of the week.
Nadine is a favourite. But with all Gugug songs, the chords are easy enough to spot — it’s the extra cool bits and ‘approach’ that makes the sound distinctive.
Any tips on bringing the Gugug ’style’ to any song you play?
Hitting the uke hard and treating it more like a percussive than harmony instrument seems to help.
By the way, here’s their California Sun: http://ukulazy.tumblr.com/post/40800508/california-sun-chord-and-tabs
John: Thanks, glad you like it.
Dave: I’ve got California Sun coming up tomorrow. Great minds and all that.
Awesome post Al. Good fun. Looking forward to more stuff from Gus and Fin!
sorry for being a doofus, but i can’t find the link to what uke chords are actually being played here!
Hi Wez
It’s the link immediately below the video (the song title in big red letters). This will download a nicely formatted PDF with the chords.
Cheers
Dave
Josh: You’re welcome. Hope you’re enjoying the week.
Wez: The big red letters at the start of the post.
Thanks, Dave.