Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová – Falling Slowly (Tab) Another song from the movies today. And it’s a really lovely song from a really lovely film. In fact, second best song from a film ever (best song from a film ever coming up next week). My instrumental version is very heavily based on Rick Hulett’s. […]
Archive for 2010
Part 2 of the video round-up (see Part 1 here.
I’ve been looking back through this year’s UkeTubes and there’s been some really fantastic stuff. There’s been so much variety in the stuff that’s been produced. I was about to say best year ever, but perhaps it’s not quite as good as last year – I’ll say this year is best for videos and last […]
Bella Hemming – (She Might Love You If You Learn To) Play Guitar (Chords) After all the ukulele songs about the ukulele, it makes a pleasant change to have a song about guitars. It’s terrible advice, of course, but a catchy song and an excellent chord progression. Suggested Strumming For the strumming pattern you can […]
Richard Durrant’s planned collaborative performance of Tubular Bells at Wukulele next week had me going back to my arrangement of it and the accompanying comments about how dumb I am because there are easier ways to play it. Well, I always listen to my readers. I’ve gone back, reworked it and come up with a […]
Three of today’s videos come courtesy of Jeff’s series of animated videos. Flesh and blood offerings come include Those Darlins (who are my biggest band crush since The Detroit Cobras), a new song from Sophie Madeleine (with one more on Wild Honey Pie where you can also learn why Sophie is friends with dicks and […]
A few weeks back I was musing over the appeal of aNueNue’s signature ukuleles. Well one uke in particular is going down well – in Thailand at least. On the launch of their U900 signature ukulele there were queues outside Bangkok’s Ribbee. And there are plans to release it in the US. But the two […]
In keeping with this week’s Halloween theme. Mad Tea Party have released a rollocking new Halloween EP Rock-n-Roll Ghoul. And if you didn’t pick up Zombie Boogie last year, I recommend you do so forthwith. Call me sentimental, but I would love to know about the trees that ended up being my ukuleles. Even if […]
Halloween Theme (Piano Part) MP3 The theme tune for Halloween the film was written by its director John Carpenter. Which may account for the fact it has all the horror film cliches: the weird time signature, the devil’s interval. And the main part is just the same phrase moved slowly down the neck. I’ve posted […]
Some tunes you may wish to bone up on before the big night. Addams Family Theme Tune Chopin – Funeral March Dance Macabre Ghostbusters (Duet) The Gothic Archies – Freakshow London Bridge Is Falling Down (From Halloween) The Misfits – Dig Up Her Bones The Misfits – Halloween Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (from The […]
