Pearl Jam – Jeremy
System of a Down – Spiders
Lil Nas X – Industry Baby
Flake Ad Theme
Silk Sonic – Fly As Me
Grange Hill Theme
No Doubt – Don’t Speak (Tab)
Here’s my take on the No Doubt mega-hit Don’t Speak. The second best song Gwen Stefani has been involved with. I wasn’t sure if this one would work on uke, but I like how mournful it sounds on the instrument.
The chords in the verse are a little unusual. The first time around the Dm chord lasts one bar. The second time, it lasts half a bar and all the chords are moved half a bar earlier with an extra half a bar of Dm in bar 9.
The pre-chorus introduces some strums to build up to the chorus. The chord progression in the chorus is great. Particularly moving between D and Cm.
There’s a key change to Eb in the bridge. Which makes it tricky to play.
Next is the solo, which also has a few tricky bits. Most notably the trip up the neck in bar 31.
After that is a minimal version of the verse and a chorus with a slight variation at the end.
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I started the Uke Hunt Patreon a couple of years ago and the support of Patreons has made a massive difference for the site. A huge thank you to all the backers It’s been a difficult couple of years for everyone and I deeply appreciate you choosing to support the site and keep the whole thing going. I couldn’t have done 2021 without that help.
As a bonus for backers, all Patreons get tabs as soon as the video goes up. And there’s a monthly tab request thread with most tabs now being requests from Patreon. There are also more rewards for higher tiers.
Patreon Only Tabs
Concert level backers ($5 per month) and up also get access to a month free tab. These tabs tend towards the more challenging in terms of skill level.
When you sign up, you’ll get access to all the previous Patreon-only tabs. Including these from last year:
Commodores – Easy
The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
Cavatina from The Deer Hunter
The Smashing Pumpkins – Tonight, Tonight
Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
Nina Simone – I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Jose Gonzalez – Heartbeats
Alicia Keys – If I Ain’t Got You
The Stranglers – Golden Brown
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Extreme – More Than Words
Thanks!
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– Arthur Foley
– Colleen Petticrew
– Dan
– Elizabeth Beardsley
– Fi Keane
– Jeff K
– Kelby Green
– Kie77
– Leia-lee Doran
– Lindsey Gagnon
– Lisa Johnson
– Nick Parsons
– Olga deSanctis
– Pat Weikle
– Pauline LeBlanc
– Robert
– Thorsten Neff
The La’s – There She Goes (Tab)
Here’s a tab for The La’s’s massive (and only) hit There She Goes. Despite their one-hit-wonder status, they were massively influential and were the template for the Britpop fad that kicked off a few years later.
This arrangement kicks off with the riff moved up to the key of C. That makes things much easier because you can use the open g-string as the pivot note. Things get a little trickier in bar 5 when the chords come in. If you’re struggling with that, you can keep playing the single note version and no one will care.
You can make the chorus easier with some forward-thinking fretting. If you fret the C chord at the start of bars 11 and 13 with your middle finger, you’ll be able to transition into the G chord much more smoothly. And at the start of bars 15 and 17, fret a Dm chord like you usually would and play the E-string third fret with your pinkie.
Next it’s back to the riff with a short solo section. Then the song shifts to A minor in the bridge but keeps the same melody. From there, the arrangement switches to mostly strumming as it builds towards the end.
Links
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Andrew Gold – Thank You for Being a Friend (Tab)
Here’s my take on the Golden Girls theme in tribute to Betty White.
It’s a short and sweet tune with some nice chord moves. The only tricky part comes in the final few bars. Here you’re playing octaves on the C and A-strings while muting the E-string with the underside of your index finger. If you don’t fancy that, you can just play the notes on the C-string and ignore the rest.
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The Fray – How to Save a Life (Tabs)
I’m back slightly later than planned thanks to slipping on some ice like a moron and fucking my back up good and proper. But I’m recovered and back in action with this tab of The Fray’s massive 2005 hit.
The chorus for this one is insanely catchy. And the benefit of playing an instrumental version is that you don’t have to wonder why he rhymes a word with itself so many times in this song.
This one is fingerpicked all the way through. I’m using one-finger-per-string picking all the way through. But you can switch to alternate picking for some of the rapid notes.
The chorus is nice and straight-forward and the solo is very basic. The only part I had trouble with was the verses. The melody shifts slightly all the time. Which made it hard for me to keep track of. But it is nice and compact and doesn’t require anything fancy.
Links
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Merry Christmas, Chanukah Sameach, Io Saturnalia, 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 sometime in January 2022 (year of the D7add13 chord, wonderful).
If you’re after some Christmas music and you’re as Spotify user here’s my Christmas Ukulele playlist. Or, if you’re sick of Christmas music, my playlist of ukulele selections from 2021.
If you can’t stand to be without a steady stream of uke, I’ll be posting on Instagram, on Twitter and Patreon. Speaking of which…
Patreon
I’ve been blown away by the amount of support I’ve received since starting the Uke Hunt Patreon. The amount of support has far exceeded my expectations and I’m overwhelmingly grateful to everyone who has supported the site. Your support has meant that, by my count, there have been 57 full tabs added to the site this year. Plus 12 more Patreon-only tabs.
And extra thanks to December’s Tenor backers:
– Arthur Foley
– Colleen Petticrew
– Dan
– Elizabeth Beardsley
– Fi Keane
– Jeff K
– Kelby Green
– Kie77
– Leia-lee Doran
– Lisa Johnson
– Nick Parsons
– Olga deSanctis
– Pat Weikle
– Pauline LeBlanc
– Robert
– Thorsten Neff
If you join Patreon at the Concert level or higher, you’ll get access to all previous exclusive tabs including December’s Fairytale of New York by The Pogues:
It’s here. With cheer. It’s the same every year. It’s the Christmas UkeTube.
Tracklist
The O’Pears – Bleak Midwinter / River
The Mad Tea Party – Oh Shit, It’s Christmastime!
Eliel Carvalho – Jingle Bells
Vinícius Vivas – White Christmas
Memphis Ukulele Band – Holidays Ain’t the Same (Without You)
Taimane – What Child is This/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Carol of the Bells
Allison Young – The Christmas Waltz
Kamakakehau Fernandez – Christmas Luau
Ukulele Solos – Fairytale of New York
If you want even more uke action, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s bust one out in their Tiny Desk. The uke starts at 7:30 but it’s all worth a listen.
Playlist
Andrew Molina – Nutcracker Russian Dance Trepak
Duo Travessia – Feeling Good
Jeremy Choi – 3 Gymnopedies: No. 1, Lent et douloureux
KimaMusic – Los Angeles
Adrian Demain – City Of Stars
James Hill – It Had To Be You
Eliel Carvalho – Jessé
Uklectic Fred – 40 Below Blues
williwaw – passing trains
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time (Tab)
There’s a terrible version of Time After Time doing the rounds this Christmas. And, of course, Jake did a uke version back in the day. But this arrangement is based on Cyndi Lauper’s original version.
The little instrumental break in the original song sounds great on the uke. So I decided to use that as the intro. It is also the most difficult part of the arrangement to play, though. After that, the verse and pre-chorus are straightforward. The chorus does have a couple of trips up the neck to contend with.
