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Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Tab and Chords)

January 27, 2009


Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Chords)

Living in the UK makes it easier to pick an album of the year this year as Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago didn’t come out over here until 2008. And if you’re not familiar with its charms, get over to his website and download the album’s standout track Skinny Love.

I had a bit of trouble working out how to get this tune onto the uke. It’s obvious he’s using an usnusal tuning and a bit of research turned up that he was using CGEGCC. There are only three notes there (G, C and E) and, happily, they are open uke strings as well. So I tuned the A string down two frets so it’s exactly the same as the G string. From there, this arrangement is very similar to what he’s actually playing.

For the outro (and the intro) I play this:


MP3

Comments

22 Responses to “Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Tab and Chords)”

  1. Benjamin on January 28th, 2009 12:21 am

    Wow, you read my mind. I was thinking about trying to convert this to uke if I had some spare time this week and you have beaten me to it!

    I’ll second that everyone should pick up Bon Iver’s whole CD, too. And he just put out a new EP last week, I think (at least, over here in the states). I haven’t heard it yet though…

  2. Courtney on January 28th, 2009 12:56 am

    Favourite song from one of my new favourite artists.
    I’m so stoked to try this one out!!
    Thanks a lot :)

  3. Suzanne on January 28th, 2009 1:26 am

    What kind of uke are you playing in your recording? When I compare yours to mine, mine sounds like a different and higher key.

  4. Woodshed on January 28th, 2009 8:02 am

    Benjamin: I’ve emusic-ed the first couple of tracks of the new EP (Blood Bank). I didn’t much like previews of the other two so I left well alone.

    Courtney: Good luck with it.

    Suzanne: I’m using a tenor ukulele for this one – a Ohana TK-35G. It’s in the same key, but it does sound fuller and bassier. Also, there’s a fair bit of reverb on there.

  5. Allison on January 28th, 2009 3:46 pm

    THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!!!!!

    This made my day!

  6. Woodshed on January 28th, 2009 7:42 pm

    Allison: You’re very welcome.

  7. Anne on January 28th, 2009 10:33 pm

    i love that you posted this. it’s fantastic. it’s my second uke song that i have learned and it’s great. when i play the E+5 during the middle section, it sounds wrong. am i doing something funny?

  8. Anne on January 28th, 2009 10:34 pm

    sorry, i meant the E7+5.

  9. Kelly on January 29th, 2009 5:29 am

    yessssss! ive been recently hypnotized by bon iver. at first i wasn’t sure how much i liked the falsetto, but i’ve come to love the whole album. and the new EP. now i can’t wait to pick my uke up and give this a good try!

  10. Woodshed on January 29th, 2009 10:02 am

    Anne: It is quite discordant. Are you playing the chord with your index finger on the 7th fret? It could be that the intonation isn’t too great on your uke (so it sounds out of tune when you play high up the neck).

    Kelly: Good luck with it. What did you make of the second half of the EP? I’m still not convinced.

  11. andrew on February 4th, 2009 1:35 am

    i love you for tabbing this. a lot. thanks. you’ll be getting a gift-basket next christmas or something.

  12. Woodshed on February 4th, 2009 7:46 pm

    andrew: Thanks. Looking forward to xmas already ;)

  13. DrSilverworm on February 5th, 2009 8:56 pm

    I’m new – finger pattern is down down down up down? Using index? just to be sure..I never know with the finger patterns

  14. Woodshed on February 5th, 2009 10:37 pm

    DrSilverworm: Yep, index finger. For the strumming pattern try:

    down, down (pause) up down up

  15. matt on March 17th, 2009 3:13 pm

    a fine choice indeed, still yet to master it though, just wondering if you know the chords for stacks?

  16. Woodshed on March 17th, 2009 8:14 pm

    matt: There are some chords for it here. But you’ll have to move everything up two frets.

  17. matt d on April 6th, 2009 10:57 pm

    Could someone post a video tutorial of this song on the uke? Im having some trouble learning it..

  18. stanley on April 26th, 2009 7:04 am

    I love this, thanks. Is there something different for the chorus? I feel like I’m missing a chord between the C and the Am. Guitar tabs say it’s a C/B.

  19. Jhube on May 18th, 2009 6:59 am

    I cant believe I missed this! THANKS :D

  20. Woodshed on May 18th, 2009 10:12 pm

    Jhube: You’re welcome.

  21. Ashley on October 7th, 2009 1:15 am

    I’m so excited to learn this! I have a question though: how does one play the d7 add 13? I’m still a bit of a newb..

    thanks!

  22. Woodshed on October 7th, 2009 11:52 am

    Ashley: When you’re tuned GCEG, it’s:

    G string at the fifth fret
    C string open
    E string 7th fret
    G string (that used to be A string) 7th fret

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