Little Black Rain Cloud (Tab) With the new Winnie the Pooh film coming out featuring some Zooey Deschanel uke-work, I thought I’d tab up my favourite Winnie the Pooh song: Little Black Rain Cloud by Robert & Richard Sherman. The biggest challenge in this one is all the moving up and down the neck. It […]
Archive for 2011
It’s been an age since I last updated my About page – I even have hair in that photo. Step 1 in the process: updating the FAQs. If you’ve got any other questions (or questions about my answers) leave them in the comments below and I’ll do my best to answer those too. General Uke […]
Another medley from Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer in the vein of Chap-Hop History. This time taking on the early 90s rave music. Two things to bear in mind: – It’s in D tuning. The chords are all referred to with their D tuning name. – The strumming, as always, is just suggested. He varies […]
A track this week from Watercolor Paintings’s new album These Arms (which you can buy on Bandcamp) along with a cavalcade of stars including Dave Matthews, Zooey Deschanel, Ben Schwartz, (Carolina Chocolate Drop) Dom Flemons and Robert Crumb.
Social Links If you’re looking for me online you can find me on Twitter and on Tumblr. And I’ve started a Google+ where you can find an exclusive tab. I’m also experimenting with Twitter/Facebook/Google +1 buttons at the bottom of posts. I’ll give it a while and see if anyone is clicking on them and, […]
Klaus Badelt – Pirates of the Caribbean Theme (Tab) If I had any musical ability or get-up-and-go, you’d be looking at a blank screen right now. I’d be off writing theme tunes, scoring movies or just writing ad jingles. And I’d want to write them like this. Klaus Badelt’s theme tune to Pirates of the […]
The amount of ukulele stuff on the net is swelling rapidly. I spend most of my day trying to keep up and I still miss loads. So here’s a list of uke goodies you may have missed because they are nowhere near as popular as they should be. If there’s something you think I should […]
I’ve hardly listened to anything else since I picked up the new Bon Iver album. It’s incredible. I think I’ve started hallucinating ukuleles in a couple of songs (not beyond the realms of possibility). I’ve written up the chords for Michicant in a few ways. Combining the original and Kina Grannis’s ukulele cover. Kina Grannis […]
Sophie Madeleine is spending the month leading up to the full release of her album doing a cover a day. You can watch them all here. Or watch my two favourties so far in this post along with Connie Francis, The Winin’ Boys, Tyrone and plenty more.
UkeToob is shutting up shop. youkulele.com (the Italian ukulele site headed up by Jontom) has been putting up tabs – a mix of free and paid for. I was interviewed by Got A Ukulele… Peter Luongo discuss 30 years of heading up the Langley Ukulele Ensemble. Trying to convince Ben Lerman to sell DIY ukuleles. […]
