Uke Hunt is eight years old. Apparently eight year olds should be able to form, “complex sentences with few grammatical errors”. I wouldn’t hold your breath for that. Here’s a selection of the stuff I managed to cobble together from half-formed sentences full of grammatical errors in the last year:
May 2014
– I released new editions of Ukulele Strums, Slide Ukulele and National Anthems.
In tabs: The Blues Run the Game
In chords: Britpop with Damon Albarn and Pulp
June 2014
– Blues Ukulele and Ukulele 2014 Spotify playlists.
In tabs: Acoustic intros including Nick Drake, Elvis and Bon Iver
In chords: WIUO’s I Love You Raylene
July 2014
In tabs: Led Zep’s Rain Song and Lana Del Ray’s Shades of Cool.
In chords: Mungo Jerry’s appallingly lyriced In the Summertime and the Nun Song from Orange is the New Black
August 2014
– Tabs and chords in a minor key.
In tabs: Pharrell’s Happy
In chords: Blind Melon’s No Rain and, to celebrate their IFC series, Garfunkel and Oates’s Fade Away.
September 2014
– Kimo Hussey’s masterclasses.
In tabs: Swamp Whistler from Rayman Legends and the classical Canzone Danza.
In chords: The ukulele classic I’ll See You in My Dreams and The Smiths’ Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
October 2014
– No hassle chord changes.
– UOGB and TUKUO battle it out in court.
In tabs: Medley of Arctic Monkeys riffs and punk pop riffs including Green Day, Blink 182 and Paramore.
In chords: Cole Porter’s You’d be so Nice to Come Home to
November 2014
– I released the second edition of Blues Ukulele.
– I released the third and final part of the Christmas tabs series.
In tabs: Claudia’s Theme from The Unforgiven
In chords: WIOU’s version of Lorde’s Team
December 2014
In tabs: Frasier theme and Serial theme
In chords: Monty Python’s Sit on My Face and Keane’s Somewhere Only We Know
January 2015
Holidays!
February 2015
In tabs: Uptown Funk and Hanging Tree from The Hunger Games
In chords: It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie
March 2015
– Songs with chords you know.
– International Women’s Day UkeToob Special
In tabs: Strokes medley and Better Call Saul theme
In chords: James Bay’s Hold Back the River and Meghan Trainor’s Baby Doll
April 2015
– Top five old school chord intros.
– Jonathan Lewis launched his excellent ebook of campanella arrangements of Irish tunes and wrote his introduction to campanella for Uke Hunt.
In tabs: Massive Attack’s Teardrop and Michael Jackson’s The Way You Make Me Feel
In chords: Jonathan Coulton’s First of May and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt theme
Ooo, an update to the blues ukulele eBook – I’ll have to get that!
About all I do on the uke these days is noodling around on the blues scale and I could do with expanding my repertoire.
I’m definitely more delta blues than honky tonk blues…