Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Ode to Joy (Tab)

June 18, 2009

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are taking part in this year’s Proms and they’re having a play along for everyone attending. To that end, they’ve put up tabs and tutorials of the parts. But there’s no tab for the counter-melody – only standard notation. Nightmare! So I did my ‘Every good boy deserves football’ and here’s what I reckon.


Ode to Joy Counter-Melody (Tab)

I can’t be sure it’s spot on. I can’t hear them playing it at any point to check.

Here it is along with the main melody and the chords:


Ode to Joy (Tab and Chords)

And I’ve put together a solo version based on this arrangement for those of us who are far too white trash to visit the proms.


Ode to Joy Solo (Tab)

Visit UkuleleOrchestra.com

EXPECTING TO FIND CHORDS/TABS? Try clicking where it says the name of the song in red under the video.
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7 Responses to “Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Ode to Joy (Tab)”

  1. JCMcGee on June 18th, 2009 9:22 pm

    It’s a beautiful melody isn’t it!

  2. zym on June 18th, 2009 11:23 pm

    How ace is that!!

    Cant wait to try it all out :)

  3. ronhale on June 18th, 2009 11:28 pm

    It is, indeed. Yet another arrangement is in Wilfried Welti’s Solo Ukulele tab book mentioned & linked to on-site Nov. 12, 2008.

  4. mictoboy on June 19th, 2009 9:37 am

    Ah knackers, i’ve only just got the hang of this version:
    http://www.akulele.com/tabs_ode_to_joy.html

  5. Acilius on June 19th, 2009 6:15 pm

    Thanks, Al! We owe you a lot.

  6. Ron Mason on June 19th, 2009 6:17 pm

    Great Melody. We hear it at Church sometime.

  7. Woodshed on June 21st, 2009 8:08 pm

    Jimmy and Ron: It is. And so simple. That’s real genius.

    zym: Good luck with it.

    ronhale and mictoboy: Both good versions. It’s one of those tunes that is dying for ukulele versions.

    Acilius: You’re welcome.

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