The last Three Weird Ass Scales proved popular so here are three more to introduce some new sounds to your playing. A quick restatement of the disclaimer: – The “weird ass”ness of the scales depends entirely on your perspective. – The examples are a lame pastiche rather than an authentic example of use. Double Harmonic […]
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Pictures – Iris Boudreau’s painted character ukuleles. – Fishy machete. Videos – Ukulele live documentary – George Formby’s uke meets Tiny Tim’s – George Harrison plays the Ukulele at home (possibly) New Releases – Something Is Wrong With Me, Part 2 by Craig Robertson – Demos from Sweet Soubrette – Henry the Rabbit. – Free […]
Eddie Vedder – Tuolumne (Tab) Nype suggested I do a uke version of Eddie Vedder’s Tuolumne from the soundtrack of Into the Wild (and the precursor to Just Breathe). I was a bit trepedacious as a lot of guitar picking songs end up finger-crunchingly tricky on ukulele. But it actually works out very well. I […]
It’s about half way through 2013 so time to run through a few of my favourite things so far this year. I’m sure I’m forgetting something so leave your faves in the comments. Favourite Posts Tabs Muppet Show Theme Elvis Costello – Shipbuilding Pi for Ukulele Mega Man II – Flash Man Theme Chords John […]
Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent (Chords) About 1,750 posts ago I put up The Arctic Monkeys’ Despair in the Departure Lounge. Since then there’s been a steady trickle of requests for Fluorescent Adolescent. So it’s about time I got round to it. It’s a fairly difficult one. Lots of barre chords, the dreaded E chord […]
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Leftover Cuties have a new album on the way: the Spark & the Fire. They’ve released the opening single, One Heart, and it blew me away. They were kind enough to let me put it up for download: Leftover Cuties — One Heart (MP3) You can pre-order the Spark & the Fire on their website. […]
Fatso – Keyboard Cat (Tab) I was inspired by Ukulele Cat to knock up my own version of the Keyboard Cat tune. It’s dead simple, just the D and Dm chord shapes on the C, E and A strings. Make sure you’ve got the chord shape in place at the start of the bar and […]
I’ve been using Guitar Pro to make my tabs for longer than this site has existed. But I spend so much time making tabs that I’m always on the lookout for something better. So I picked up a new tabbing app for Mac: Tabular by Chromatic Labs It’s very new and the bugs are still […]
