It’s St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow (Thursday) still plenty of time to work up a Irish tune or two. Chords The Dubliners and The Pogues – The Irish Rover Imelda May/Blondie – Dreaming The Pogues – Fairytale of New York The Pogues – Fiesta The Pogues – Irish Rover The Pogues – Sally MacLennane The Pogues […]
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The Pogues – If I Should Fall From Grace with God (Chords) It’s St Patrick’s Day this week and time for the inevitable Pogues post. If I Should Fall… rollicks along at a rapid pace which makes changing to the E chord tricky. It makes it easier if you play the A to D change […]
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Ukulele Go! has a tool to help you find chords that go well together. I’ve kicked off the Ukulele 2016 Spotify playlist. Not much there at the moment but it’ll fill up over the year. You can also find a full list of my ukulele playlists here. Ukulele favourites, Bosko and Honey entered Australia’s Got […]
Janet Klein – Langtree’s Lament (Tab) Cartoon Network’s Over the Garden Wall has featured a bunch of old-timey musicians including Frank Fairfield, Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton and ukulele chanteuse Janet Klein. I got had a request I couldn’t ignore for a song from the show so it was inevitable I went for Klein’s Langtree’s Lament. […]
I like to keep a list of songs that use just the most common ukulele chords. Arranged by the order people usually learn them in. That way you can find some songs to play no matter how few chords you know. Songs added to the list: Happy Birthday to You The Libertines – Don’t Look […]
The Prettiots – 18 Wheeler (Chords) Too-cool-for-school New York uke duo*, The Prettiots are current on their first world tour. Their UK dates covered the three main hubs: London, Edinburgh and Hebden Bridge. 18 Wheeler is played on a low-G uke. The chords will work perfectly well on a high-G. The picking does still work […]
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Ukuleles for Ukraine is a charity that raises money via ukulele-means to supply children’s homes in Ukraine with clothing, school supplies, medicines, educational technology, and musical instruments. They’ve just released a ten minute documentary of their trip and just launched a YouCaring fund that you can donate to here. The Hebden Bridge-based organisers of the […]
Jonathan Lewis – Loftus Jones (Tab) Jonathan Lewis’s Irish Tunes for Campanella Ukulele was my favourite tab book of last year. So I’m delighted that he’s let me put up his tab up on the site. Like the arrangements in his ebook, this is a challenging campanella of an Irish tune (this time by Turlough […]
