Archive for October, 2014

The Staves, Happy Gland Band: UkeTube

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Friday Links

New Releases – Pre-order the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra’s debut album. (Wait, debut album? … So it is). – Maybe by Sage Harrington. – UkePunk’s Punk Police The Album. – Wild Child’s The Runaround. Learning – Halloween chord book The Haunted Ukulele. – You can find all my Halloween tabs and chords here. And in […]

Arctic Monkeys – AM Medley (Tab)

Arctic Monkeys – AM Medley (Tab) Way back in 2007 the second ever chord post I did was Despair in the Departure Lounge. Since then there’s been a steady stream of request for more Monkeys which I’d always replied to with, “I’ll do another Monkeys tab when they go back to making good records.” Johnny […]

Best Bits of Get Plucky with the Ukulele

Get Plucky with the Ukulele is the new book by Will Grove-White off of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain and his own group Will Grove-White & the Others. As you would expect of someone who started playing the ukulele when it was ignored and deeply unfashionable in the 80s, Will has an obvious deep […]

Cole Porter – You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To (Chords)

Cole Porter – You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To I had a clutch of requests for this Cole Porter song after posting Victor and Penny’s version the other week. And I’m always eager to write up a song that includes an aug7 chord. Being a Cole Porter classic, You’d Be So Nice has […]

James Clem, Sledding with Tigers: UkeToob

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Last chance to order a Uke Hunt t-shirt. The minimum order has been passed so they’re definitely going to get made and shipped as soon as the pre-ordering is done. Pictures – Light-box ukulele. – And that’s why you don’t play ukulele with a pick. – Martin found under a bed. New Releases – Allo […]

Punk Pop Riffs (Tab)

Another one for the Riffs for Ukulele series. Usual rules apply: they’re intended to be played for a lark (even more so with these punk pop songs); no, I’m not going to write up the full song; and they’re not necessarily in the original key (although only Sum 41 in this post isn’t thanks to […]

No Hassle Chord Changes

With all the intricate and dexterous actions that evolution has equipped our hands for it’s left us woefully unprepared to play an Fmaj7 chord on the ukulele. It’s made plenty of chord changes a pain in the arse too. Laziness to the rescue! You can change the fingering of a chord or use a different […]

Junior Brown – Better Call Saul (Chords)

Junior Brown – Better Call Saul (Chords) This one is hot off the press. The new song for the upcoming Breaking Bad spinoff Better Call Saul. Although it’s performed by Junior Brown and his guit-steel, the lyrics are by show creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould with music by Dave Porter (composer of the Breaking […]