Tracklist
Max & Veronica – Dirty Mother For You
Andy Eastwood and Peter Moss – William Tell Overture
Uke Heads – The Night
Taimane – Phantom of the Opera
Jenifer Cabrera – Chega de saudade
Jake Shimabukuoro & Andrew Molina – Toastmaker's Revenge
Charming Disaster – Monsters
Danny Yau – Neurotica outro
MiG Martins – O Bem do Mar
As Time Goes By is most famous for its inclusion in Casablanca. But the song was written a decade earlier by Herman Hupfeld for the long forgotten musical Everybody’s Welcome.
Intro: A quick campanella intro. There are a million things you could do here.
Verse: The slow pace of the song make this fairly simple to play. Just a trip up the fretboard in bar 7 to deal with. Another opportunity for your own spin at the end of each verse. I went jazzy in the first verse and bluesy in the second.
Bridge: Bringing out the strums for the bridge.
Solo: The solo is based on the melody shifted up an octave. With a few passing notes, a pre-bend (i.e. bending the note before plucking it then releasing) and a descending-ascending run in bars 23-24.
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Today it’s one of the rare cheerful songs I like: I Can See Clearly Now. I worked from the original Johnny Nash version but I’m more familiar with Jimmy Cliff version so a bit of that might have snuck in.
I’ve tried to keep the arrangement loose and breezy to match the song. So focus on the mood when you’re playing rather than nailing down every note exactly.
Herman Vandecauter has an extensive examination of the Madeiran machete (the forerunner to the ukulele).
Nick Offerman has a new batch of ukuleles almost done (but you won’t be able to buy one unless you’re his buddy).
The unfortunate history of politicians and instruments in the uke family continues with Ed Milliband’s guitarlele.
Window Shopping
– Ortega HYDRA ZS double neck uke.
– RIGuitars‘ latest custom is a Pegasus Uke.
– Paul Gilbert demonstrates the electric RG Ibanez ukulele. I think it’s fair to say he’s better with an electric drill than he is with a ukulele.
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Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough
De La Soul – Me Myself and I
Andrew WK – Party Hard
Laurie Anderson – From the Air
Tove Styrke – Same My Name
Burt Bacharach is one of the greatest songwriters of all time. So I had to do a little tribute to him with I’ll Never Fall in Love Again. For this arrangement, I worked from the Elvis Costello version that cropped up in The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Even in an apparently simple pop tune like this, Bacharach snuck in interesting little moves. So in bar 15 there’s a B7 chord with the melody hitting Ab. Which is the minor third of F creating tension in the key is F major. And there’s a bar of 2/4 cutting the melody short in bar 17.
A recent nostalgia trip compelled me to knock up a version of Masato Ishizaki’s music from the 80s arcade game Kung-Fu Master.
The tune is very quick. Even slowed down, it’s still a challenge. In order to cut the finger movement to a minimum, it’s arranged campanella style so the work is done with the picking hand and fretting hand doesn’t have to move much.
Afroman’s Because I Got High is a very simple song. Three chords and just a verse with a bit of variation in the intro and a bit of getting jiggy with it in the outro.
The only tricksy thing going on (other than a bunch of percussive chnks) is the campanella picking on “Coz I got high…” which first shows up in bars 6-7. I think having the notes ring into each recreates the slurred, stumbling feel of the original.
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It’s St. Patrick’s Day on Friday. Just enough time to ditch your dullest friend, threaten to cut off your fingers and dedicate yourself to achieving musical immortality.
Chords
The Cranberries – Linger (Chords)
The Dubliners and The Pogues – The Irish Rover
Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land
Imelda May/Blondie – Dreaming
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
The Pogues – Fiesta
The Pogues – If I Should Fall from Grace with God
The Pogues – Irish Rover
The Pogues – Sally MacLennane
The Pogues – Streams of Whiskey
The Pogues – Waxies’ Dargle
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
Van Morrison – Keep It Simple
The Cranberries – Linger
The Cranberries – Zombie
Damien Rice – 9 Crimes
Damien Rice – The Blower’s Daughter
Father Ted Theme
The Foggy Dew
Lisa Hannigan – Knots
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly
The Irish Washerwoman
John King – Larry O’Gaff
John King – Swallowtail (Tab)
Jonathan Lewis – Lonesome Fiddle Blues
The Parting Glass
The Pogues – Dirty Old Town
Sinead O’Connor/Prince – Nothing Compares 2 U
Thin Lizzy – Boys are Back in Town (Riff)
Turlough O’Carolan/Jonathan Lewis – Loftus Jones
U2 – One
U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday (Riff) (Tab)
U2 – With or Without You (Tabs)
Whiskey in the Jar/Kilgary Mountain
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