Zooey Deschanel – You Forgot About Valentine’s Day (Chords)
It’s not hard to work out the musical inspiration for Zooey Deschanel’s Saturday Night Live song. The intro and verse chords are almost identical to her version of What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?.
But after that the swirly, hotel-lobby piano makes it tricky to work out what to do on a ukulele. I had my best shot at doing those parts in the write up. But I’m not entirely happy with it so feel free to make changes.
Related thought: what is it with ukers and skinny moons?
Suggested Strumming
While she’s playing the uke the strumming is pretty straight forward. You can just do down strums – two for each chord – most of the time. For a fuller pattern try:
d – d u
In the middle section I like to do just down strums but cutting them short by releasing the pressure on them. Then follow with this little bit.
Which sounds like this:
Twiddly Bits
If you want to play the big band outro you can do it like this:
Thanks Woodshed! I watched this about a half dozen times :)