Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Teenage Kicks (Chords)
It was the anniversary of John Peel’s death yesterday. I was going to put up Napalm Death’s You Suffer in tribute. But after getting hate mail for my Dillinger Escape Plan post, I thought I’d go with something a bit more crowd pleasing.
For this version I’ve written up the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain version (from Anarchy in the UK).
Suggested Strumming
For C and Am you can go with:
d – d u d u d u
d – d u d u
Topped off with one down strum for the Cmaj7 passing chord.
d – d u d u d u
In the verse you can use this twice for each chord.
Twiddly Bits
The intro/solo riff goes a bit like this:
The rest of the solo you can noodle around with C major pentatonic.
Undertones Version
The Undertones version is two frets higher (so the chords are D – Dmaj7 – Bm and G – A).
They also have another passing chord between G and A (G#). If you want to throw it in the UOGB version, it’s F# (easiest to play it x121).
Classic! We bust this one out quite a bit at the ukearist