Wellington International Ukulele Trio – Blue Smoke (Chords)

March 1, 2009


Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra – Blue Smoke (Chords)

Lest you think ukuleles and New Zealand are a new phenomenon, the first record entirely produced in New Zealand, Blue Smoke, was a uke-featuring hapa haole song recorded when the technology was just reaching New Zealand way back in 1993 (you can read the full, and more accurate, story here). And a slimmed down version of the WIUO recorded it at the Ukulele Cabaret

Suggested Strumming Pattern

Blue Smoke is in waltz time (3/4) so here’s a strumming pattern that suits it:

d – d u d u

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Written by Woodshed · Filed Under Beginners, Chords 
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10 Responses to “Wellington International Ukulele Trio – Blue Smoke (Chords)”

  1. Mike on March 1st, 2009 6:37 pm

    New Zealand is a bit backward, but we were making records before 1993! Blue Smoke is 1949, but there were plenty of records recorded and pressed before then; this was just the first completely NZ-made record from start to finish. It’s a lovely song.

  2. Woodshed on March 2nd, 2009 9:23 pm

    Don’t listen to him, folks. It’s definitely 1993.

  3. Carrie on March 2nd, 2009 10:26 pm

    haha!

  4. Mike on March 3rd, 2009 5:03 am

    Oh no. Punk’d.

  5. Rukuleleth on March 4th, 2009 5:15 pm

    I’ve been trying to learn some songs from a guitar book, by just playing the chords for the uke, but I don’t know how to play chords where it’s something over something, like E/D# or G/B. No ukulele chord website will tell me, and my ukulele book doesn’t know. Can you help me out Woody??
    Thanks!

  6. Woodshed on March 4th, 2009 7:18 pm

    Rukuleleth: They’re slash chords. E/D# would be Emaj7 and G/B is just a G chord.

  7. chris on March 7th, 2009 6:34 pm

    Is that Bret from Flight of The Conchords

  8. Mike on March 8th, 2009 1:30 am

    It most certainly is Bret; he’s a founder member of the WIUO, but nowadays only gets to jet in for special occasions.

  9. Pozza on October 2nd, 2009 4:26 pm

    Here’s a real simple intro for Blue Smoke based on the one you can hear in the original recording. Sorry if my tabbing skills are rubbish but hopefully you can get the gist of it.

    5 – 2 – 5 – -7 – 3 -7 – 5 – 2 – - 0 – - – - – - – - – - 2 – 0 – 2 – 0 – - – 0 -5
    – - 3 – - – - – - -0 – - – - – - -3 – 0 – 0 – 0 – 2 – 3 – - – -0 – - – – 3 – 2
    – - 2 – - – - – - -0 – - – - – - – - – 1 – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -2
    – - 0 – - – - – - -0 – - – - – - – - – 0 – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -2

  10. Woodshed on October 2nd, 2009 6:56 pm

    Pozza: Thanks for that. I got told off by Gemma for tabbing up this version, so I might redo it with the new version.

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