Tracklist
Amelia Coburn – When The Tide Rolls In
Jon’s Ukulele – Grimstock – Playford
Uke With Smitty – Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Dani Joy – Time in a Bottle
Origami Angel – The Brightest Days
Justin Timberlake & The Roots – Medley
Feng E – Idol
Herman Vandecauter – 2 Nocturnes Zani de Ferranti
Bobby Alu & Foloi Iulia – Tofa My Feleni
Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Tab)
A tab of Green Day’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Intro: The verse of Boulevard uses the same chords as the verse of Wonderwall so I went extra Wonderwally for the intro.
Verses: Nothing too tricky here. Just fingerpicking around first position chords.
Chorus: Switching to strums and moving up and down the neck much more.
Solo: This is where it gets challenging. It’s a series of chord stabs with octaves between them. The upside is that it’s very repetitive, so there’s not a lot of it to tackle.
Outro: A completely new chord sequence here using chromatic moves. It’s just bashed out with strums.
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Patreon Only Tabs
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– The Killers – Mr Brightside
– Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
– Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
– Danny Elfman – This is Halloween
– Earth, Wind and Fire – September
– Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
– Amy Winehouse – Valerie
– Meatloaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light
– Jimi Hendrix – Little Wing
– Gorillaz – Feel Good Inc
– Queen – Don’t Stop Me Now
– Elton John – Tiny Dancer
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Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know? (Tab)
Starting off 2024 with a track from Arctic Monkeys’ last good album: Do I Wanna Know?
Intro: The funnest part of the song. The original is just single notes. But I’ve beefed it up for the uke with doubled notes and chords wherever I get the chance.
Verse: The melody is very rambling and conversational even before he does his club singer act on it. I thought I knew this song well, but it took a lot of work to get the timing somewhere near right. The biggest challenge of the song.
Pre-Chorus: The only thing to worry about here is a quick jump down the fretboard in bar 27. If you prefer, you can play the A-string, 2nd fret to the E-string, 7th fret. All you’re losing here is the open E-string ringing.
Chorus: Other than the “Crawling back to you,” part, it’s exactly the same as the intro.
Outro: A simple little riff to finish off.
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Mele Kalikimaka, Merry Christmas, Chanukah Sameach, Feliz Natal and Happy Holidays! (If you can be arsed with it this year.)
That’s it from me for another year. I’ll be back at the end of January 2024.
If you can’t stand to be without a steady stream of uke, I’ll be posting on Instagram, on Twitter (if I can stomach it – Threads if I can’t) and Patreon. Speaking of which…
Patreon
I’m overwhelmingly grateful to all the people supporting the site on the Uke Hunt Patreon. Without your generosity Uke Hunt would not still be going. And without your suggestions for tabs I’d probably be covering Belgian art rock songs rather than tunes people want to learn. Your munificent patronage of the arts has not been since Renaissance Italy.
And extra thanks to December’s Tenor backers:
– Arthur Foley
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– Colleen Petticrew
– Dennis Boutsikaris
– Elizabeth Beardsley
– Ivo
– Jameson Gagnepain
– Jeff K
– Jon Kenniston
– Kelby Green
– Leia-lee Doran
– Margit Stadlmann
– Mary
– Moses Kamai
– Pat Weikle
– Pauline LeBlanc
– Rachel
– Rachel Fawcett
– Robert
– Tina Knight
If you join Patreon at the Concert level or higher, you’ll get access to all previous exclusive tabs including December’s Nothing Else Matters by Metallica
Tracklist
The O’Pears – Bleak Midwinter / River
The Mad Tea Party – Oh Shit, It’s Christmastime!
Vinícius Vivas – White Christmas
Memphis Ukulele Band – Holidays Ain’t the Same (Without You)
Jon Yamasato, Herb Ohta Jr., Sarah Maisel, Craig Chee – Christmas Luau
4stringboy – Carol of the Bells
Bad Mouse Orchestra & Moon Berries – What will Santa Claus say when he finds everybody swinging?
Ukulele Solos – Fairytale of New York
Kris Fuchigami – Last Christmas
The Pogues – Sally MacLennane (Tab)
Shane MacGowan was one of the greatest songwriters of all time. He’s most famous for Fairytale of New York but his back catalogue is full of incredible songs. Many of which I’ve covered in the past.
To commemorate his passing, I’ve chosen the typically riotous Sally MacLennane to tab. I slowed it down a fair amount from the original but it’s still very challenging.
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Greg Lake/ELP – I Believe in Father Christmas (Tab)
Just enough time before the big day to work up a version of Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas. Later recorded by the whole of Emerson, Lake and Palmer as well as U2, Mark Kozelek and many others. But it’s the original I worked from for this arrangement.
Intro: The trickiest part of the song. There are a few switches in the picking pattern which can get you in a jumble. The best way to get these down is to practice them very slowly (slow enough you don’t make any mistakes). So when you speed up, you can just play them on auto-pilot.
There’s also a bar of 2/4 (bar 8) followed by a big jump up the fretboard. Give yourself a little extra time by not holding the 23 notes and moving up during the open g-string.
Verse and Chorus: Much simpler. All done with basic chord shapes and a melody that fits in the first three frets.
Solo: The solo is adapted from Prokofiev’s Troika. It’s a nice, little Christmas ditty that fits well on the uke. Worth learning this section even if you’re not bothered about the rest of the song.
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Tracklist
Sweet Hollywiians – Rocking the Uke
Tomotaka Matsui – Take the A Train
Roxane Arnal et Michel Ghuzel – Don’t Think Twice (It’s Alright)
Aline Kelly – Blackbird
Jim Beloff ft. Conservatorio A. Vivaldi String Quartet – Uke Can’t Be Serious
George Elmes – Funkulele!
Phil & Romeo – Ukulele Funk Jam
KimaMusic – Fake As Hell
Aly Peeler – Broken
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday (Tab)
U2’s song against violence and occupation, Sunday Bloody Sunday, is depressingly relevant again. So time for a tab.
Intro: The perfect example of how simple but effective The Edge’s riffs can be. It’s the easiest bit of the song and worth learning even if you’re not tackling the rest of the song.
Verse: The song has an odd structure at the beginning. There’s just half a verse before it dives into the bridge. This short verse is just fingerpicking. Whereas later verses are fuller with more strums.
Bridge: The first bridge starts out fingerpicked before switching to strums at the end of bar 12. Second time around, the whole bridge uses strums.
Chorus: The first chorus features a Bb chord, which you wouldn’t expect in the key of E minor. That short section (bars 30-33) provides a brief respite before the militaristic muted strums come back in.
Solo: A typically jingle-jangle Edge solo. The first half of the solo in this arrangement is faithful to the original. But the second half is faithful to the spirit rather than the exact notes. So long as you keep all the strings rattling, there’s plenty of scope for your own ideas here.
