Comments on: Wellington International Ukulele Trio – Blue Smoke (Chords)

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:13:22 +0000

fibby: Yeah, you can do either.

By: fibby

fibby — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:30:40 +0000

Thanks for these chords! Next week I’m going to a fancy dress party as “New Zealand’s first pop song”, and now I’ll be able to give a quick demonstration too!

I notice you’ve given the standard fingering for D7 (3222), but as this is a Pacific song, it seems to me that Hawaiian D7 should be used throughout (0202). I reckon it sounds a lot better and more bluesy that way, and also more like the WIUO version. Plus it’s easier to play!

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:56:46 +0000

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

By: Pozza

Pozza — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:26:29 +0000

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

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:30:08 +0000

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

By: chris

chris — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:34:34 +0000

Is that Bret from Flight of The Conchords

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:18:32 +0000

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

By: Rukuleleth

Rukuleleth — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:15:26 +0000

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!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:03:08 +0000

Oh no. Punk’d.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:26:04 +0000

haha!