Tracklist
4stringboy – Rain
Jake Shimabukuro – Hualalai ft. Brother Noland – YouTube
Pomaika’i – Puamana
KimaMusic – The First Punch
Dingus Khan – My New Hat
CNN Mikey – Talk About It
Kenta Ebara – Somehow, Somehow
Moon Berries & Zaza – You’re A Sweet Little Headache
CTrietsch – Black or White
Jon’s Ukulele – Haste to the Wedding
Stephen Sanchez – Until I Found You (Tab)
In a rare case of being almost up to date, here’s a tab of Stephen Sanchez’s retro ballad and TikTok smash Until I Found You.
Intro: The retro touches start in the intro with a classic IV to minor iv chord change (C to Cm) in this case. Which shows up in a million Beatles songs as well as Creep and Wake Me Up When September Ends.
Verse: The verse starts with the unmistakeable interval from the Crazy melody. The verse melody has a very lazy, slurred timing to it. I’ve kept some of that but I have straightened it up a little.
Chorus: The chorus is more straight forward in terms of timing. The slide up to the seventh fret is the only bump.
Solo: A very simple solo. Just bashing out the chords and doing a little slide. But doing that accurately and quickly is challenging.
Links
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Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel (Tab)
Old Crow Medicine Show’s Wagon Wheel is pretty much ubiquitous wherever ukuleles are strummed. Or any instrument is strummed. Even Kesha has had a go at it.
Part of the reason it’s so popular is its long gestation taking in Curtis Jone’s Roll Me Mama and Bob Dylan’s mumbled demo Rock Me Mama before OCMS’s Ketch Secor gave the song its current form. It’s not a coincidence that a song passing through so many hands would shape it into something so widely loved. Which is why the current music copyright insanity is so harmful.
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Ukulelists have been raising money to support those affected by the Maui wildfire with Eddie Vedder and Jack Johnson auctioning off ukes, and Taimane playing a benefit. Plus, Jake Shimabukuro is donating profits from his Hana Hou Festival to the fund. You can buy tickets to the online stream the event here.
On Video
– Marvin Tevaga performs Lahaina Luna after losing his home in the wildfire.
– Dick Van Dyke has started learning the ukulele at 97.
– Paragliding with a ukulele.
– The art of the protest song is not dead.
Patreon
A massive thanks to all Uke Hunt’s Patreon backers for keeping the site up and running this month. And double thanks go to these legendary patrons of the arts:
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Brandi Carlile – You and Me on the Rock (Tab)
Here’s my take on Brandi Carlile’s Joni Mitchell influenced and very catchy You and Me on the Rock.
Intro: The Mitchell influence kicks in right away with a Big Yellow Taxi-esque strumming riff.
Verse: And continues with a wordy verse. It’s tricky to hit every note in the melody. So I’ve taken a few liberties. Don’t stress to much about hitting every note and string exactly.
Chorus: Things calm down a bit in the chorus. And I move from strumming only to include more picking. Even with the picking I’m doing a bit of “flick up” motion so I stroke the next string along. Making the note softer but still supporting the main melody.
The chorus ends with a bar of 2/4 but it flows naturally.
Bridge: There’s a short bluesy lick leading into the bridge introducing the more minor feel with the addition of Eb (the first chord outside the bog-standard I-IV-V in the rest of the song).
Outro: The outro is cut down from the original so it’s just the second half of the chorus.
Links
Eminem – The Real Slim Shady
Franz Ferdinand – Michael
Janelle Monae – Champagne Shit
The Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
Average White Band – Pick Up the Pieces
BLACKPINK – The Girls
Willie Nelson – Stardust (Tabs)
A tab of Willie Nelson’s version of Stardust (written by Hoagy Carmichael) for everyone who likes a bit of Willie. In thanks for his contributions to ukeing as father of Amy Nelson of Folk Uke and grandfather of Raelyn Nelson.
There are loads of less common chords in the song. And a fair amount of hopping around the fretboard. But the tempo is very slow and there’s plenty of room for changing the phrasing of the melody. So this one is fairly straightforward to play.
Links
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Tracklist
SeattleUke – How High The Moon
Norwegian Uke – Hone A Ka Wai
Dot Allison and Zoë Bestel – Bleached By The Sun
BoyWithUke – Trauma
Adrian Demain – By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Benny Chong and Byron Yasui – Just The Way You Are
Reneé Dominique – everybody loves somebody
Tommy Emmanuel ft. Feng E – While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Band – The Weight (Tab)
A version of The Weight in tribute to Robbie Robertson. Robertson appeared on the Playing for Change version alongside some uke from Taimane.
Intro: Usually, you’re free to play around with the intro. Not in this case. Robertson’s intro is iconic and doing anything other than playing it as close to the original as possible is sacrilege.
Verses: The melody in the verses is a little fiddly, but it’s the third verse that’s most challenging. There’s an extra campanella bit in bar 37 (“Waitin’ on Judgement Day”) and a trickier ending to the verse.
Chorus: I haven’t tried to cram in all the vocal lines in the chorus in order to keep things clear. Most obviously, the arrangement doesn’t include the overlapping “you put the load…” lines (bar 46).
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Placebo – Pure Morning (Tab)
Placebo’s Pure Morning is hilariously unsuited the ukulele. But it’s always fun to have a go at those. You can decide for yourself whether it actually works because I’m not sure.
There’s no chord progression at all in the song. It’s just an E drone the whole way through (Eb in the original). To emphasise that, I’m playing an E on both the open E-string and on the C-string 4th fret whenever I get the chance.
As the song builds, the arrangement moves up the neck and uses some octaves. If you don’t have a 14th fret, you can always just mute the A-string. Or playing it open will work.
