Patsy Cline/Willie Nelson – Crazy (Tab) As threatened when I did the Gnarls Barkley Crazy, here’s a simple arrangement of the Patsy Cline/Willie Nelson version. It’s a little more advanced than Pua Lililehua and Sakura Sakura, there’s one jazz chord (but it’s easy to play). The one tricky thing are the bends in bar 21. [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Podcast Powered By Podbean Download Podcast #6 Subscribe on iTunes The March 2011 edition of podcast is up and has a hilarious session from Midland punk rocker Uke’s Not Dead. As always, Bossa has turned up a bunch of great tunes, mostly from people I’ve never heard before, and included a healthy dose of toilet [...]
Elvis Presley/Fin Raucaus – Viva Las Vegas (Chords) I’ve written up Fin’s rollocking banjolele version of this tune. He’s tuned up slightly sharp for this one. Here are – roughly – the tuning notes: Tuning Notes Twiddly Bits I’ve included slashes for the chord riff that crops up all over the song in the chord [...]
Two songs this week from the original Mr Tiptoe Through the Tulips Nick Lucas along with the new single from tUne-yArDs (if you want more of her, NPR recorded a show at SXSW). tUnE-yArDs’s new album, w h o k i l l, is coming out soon and I can’t wait. One video that didn’t [...]
Tessie O’Shea‘s ukulele: Gibson Model UB-5. It’s already been sold but this Gibson Ukulele UKE 2 would make a nice consolation. Photos: Costumed Musician, Boy playing ukulele, UKULELE in BED w BABY!. If you happen to see some suspiciously cheap Ohana baritone resonators be aware they might be stolen.
Lots of excellent photos this week: Senior ukulele club (via Ukulelia), Nancy Hamilton (via Humble Baritonics), the man on the table, Ukulele Lady (warning: contains boobs). UkuleleTim has a new site Ukulele Secrets that promises to teach you to play ukulele like a badass. Definitely worth subscribing to. Scarface seems to be the uke player’s [...]
David Beckingham – Whistling Milkman (Tab) Is there such thing as milkmen anymore? If there is, they’re certainly not whistling. Nevertheless, here’s another expertly arranged tune from David Beckingham. This time a tune from UK fingerpicking guitarist Dave Evans. If you want more, here are all his tabs so far: The Stripper Mississippi Blues In [...]
When I mentioned bamboo ukuleles before, there was a bit of discussion about whether you should care about the environmental impact of your uke and it got me thinking about the issue. And, of course, there’s the ever increasing selection of woods there are to choose from. Neither issue I’m particularly knowledgeable on. So I [...]
Eddie Vedder – Longing to Belong (Chords) More details coming out about Eddie Vedder’s ukulele album. The latest is that it’s going to be called Ukulele Songs and will be out on the 30th May. It’ll feature a duet with Glen Hansard and a version of Tonight You Belong to Me with Cat Power. And [...]
Dear about a million people, Yes, I’ve heard Taimane’s Toccata. I featured it here and this was the reaction. Hugs and smooches, Al P.S. Taimane’s new one is in this week’s round-up along with Te Ava Piti from Raiatea, The Cotton Dons (one of whom inherited a love a uke from his granddad Joe Brown) [...]
