Uke Hunt is Eight: Roundup of the Year

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

Intricate strums.

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

2014 ukulele quiz.

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

2015 ukulele festivals

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

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