Death Cab for Cutie – Talking Bird (Demo) (Chords)
April 7, 2009
Death Cab for Cutie – Talking Bird (Ukulele Version)(Chords)
Death Cab for Cutie’s new odds-and-ends EP, The Open Door, includes the original ukulele filled version of Talking Bird (you can listen to it on Stereogum). It is, naturally, far superior to the full band version (for which Zakulele has already written up the chords).
Stereogum were, unusually for them, very musically astute to mention Beirut in that post. The song contains a lot of Beirut like touches: it’s in waltz time, the C chord is played up the neck, there are Fadd9 chords all over the place.
I’ve written the chords up in a slightly simplified way (just make sure you pay attention to the C chord – the A string is played at the 7th fret rather than the 3rd). The do occasionally add in passing chords. This sort of thing:
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!
I was just listening to this for the first time not 30 minutes ago and thinking “Nice, Uke Hunt needs to come out with chords for this.”
That was really nice. This sort of style ukulele is definitely the one that I naturally gravitate towards in my own playing.
“The Penalty” much?
As always, great work Woodshed.
Very much like The Penalty! Just after I was trying out the DCFC tune last night I then got The Penalty in my head and started playing that. I do love that C chord at the 7th, definitely going to use that in my own stuff when ever get round to writing something.
Ryan Hartkopf: You’re welcome. You weren’t the only one thinking that.
John and ryan: Definitely. They use quite a few of the same chords.
Zakulele: Thanks. And thanks for writing up the original version.
hi folks,just like to say i am enjoying my ukulele trip so far,it gets better every time i pick my ukulele up.So here is a little idea requiring some imput,i would like to be able to download some music lesson on my multimedia player,giving me the option to play my uke at work or when i dont have a P.C. handy.i know musicmoose.org does lesson download using quicktime, is there any thing similar for ukulele lessons,best regards,mike
Beautiful Al, Beautiful :D
Thank you so much for posting this. I only just found out about the new EP, and was thrilled to find a ukulele song on it. I can’t wait to learn it!
So I think the intro on the chords is wrong (i believe it includes an Am, but I may be mistaken) but otherwise this is really great work. I generally play the C with my second finger on the C on the second string. I know it’s redundant, but I think it may have been what DCFC did and it sounds pretty nice. And I can’t for the life of me figure out those tabs. Can’t we just go with standard sheet?
Awesome Job, though.