Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra/Kings of Leon – The Bucket

February 26, 2009


WIUO/Kings of Leon – The Bucket (Chords)

An excellent choice of song for any ukulele group: dead easy chords and plenty of widdling for the flash Harrys.

Megan’s intro is based on the chords switching between the major and the 5 chord:

The twiddly bit that comes after that, and crops up a few times in the song, goes like this:

Or, if you want to play it fingerstyle, you can play it like this:

And there’s the little inbetweeny bit in the chorus:

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16 Responses to “Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra/Kings of Leon – The Bucket”

  1. Tuscadero on February 26th, 2009 7:36 pm

    “widdling for the flash Harrys”, “twiddly bit”, “little inbetweeny”

    If this is as much fun to play as it is to read about, I’m game! Thanks.

  2. zym on February 26th, 2009 8:32 pm

    outstanding! I was hoping you’d do this :D

    I feel like my numbers have come up on the Premium bonds, ive won the pools, and that Jim has fixed it for me – all in one day :D

  3. Melissa on February 26th, 2009 9:19 pm

    Thank you!
    This is a glorious day! This is one of my favorite songs by them.
    I literally fist pumped the air when I saw the Bucket by WIUO today.
    Thank you again!

  4. paul on February 27th, 2009 5:33 am

    thx so much, i’d nvr heard this before. i tend to stick with classical or obscure songs when it comes to my uke music, but this is an excellent song, big ups lol

  5. Craig DJ on February 27th, 2009 11:48 am

    Ahh excellent! Yet another very useful post :)
    Love this version, and you’ve even got Megan’s intro.
    Yeah, as ‘zym’ said, i was hoping you’d do this.
    I I check everyday for new posts so this is brilliant.
    Many thanks,
    Craig Shrewsbury UK

  6. Rob NY on February 27th, 2009 2:49 pm

    You are the master.We amateurs salute you!

  7. Alice on February 27th, 2009 10:26 pm

    Oh my God, could you do Sex on Fire? That’d be a legend song to do on the uke!

  8. Robert on February 28th, 2009 12:24 am

    this has been one of my favorite songs for ages, i cant believe i never saw this uke version!

  9. Carrie on February 28th, 2009 2:48 am

    Most excellent post.

    In time I will be able to read the music thanks to a wee book I recieved today…

    A good friend of mine in NZ sent me a book entitled “Kiwi Ukulele” which has an endorsement on the back by….

    You, Al!

    Yay! :-)

  10. zym on February 28th, 2009 3:09 pm

    @Al,

    whats is the litle ‘vibrato’ bit being played at 1:32 to 1:57?

  11. Raj on February 28th, 2009 9:49 pm

    Hey guys,
    being new to the uke and trying to play one of my favorite songs would anyone mind helping me out with the strum pattern?

    Thank You!

  12. Charles on February 28th, 2009 10:28 pm

    zym, the 1:32 to 1:57 bit is just a tremelo( playing the note over and over as fast as you can) on the a string playing frets
    7(for two beats) 5(for two beats) 3(for four beats)

  13. Woodshed on March 1st, 2009 9:30 am

    Tuscadero: Yes, what little refinement my writing has went out the window with this post.

    Melissa: You’re very welcome.

    paul: I don’t know how you managed to avoid, but glad you’ve caught on.

    Craig DJ: Thanks very much.

    Rob: Thanks, but I’m definitely no master.

    Alice: I’m not too keen on KoL’s more recent stuff. It’s all gone a bit U2.

    zym and Charles: Yep, I’m with Charles. Thanks for that.

    Raj: A lot of it is just single down strums. For the rest of it, just something simple like d – d – d u d u will get you through.

  14. zymeck on March 2nd, 2009 3:12 pm

    thanks charles

  15. mathilde (: on September 3rd, 2009 12:55 pm

    easy and fun to play (: thanks woodshed

  16. Woodshed on September 3rd, 2009 6:15 pm

    mathilde: You’re welcome.

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