The Saturday UkeTube

Head over the fold to watch this week’s best ukulele videos.

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If this is your first visit here, you can find the chords/tab in those posts by clicking on the song title in red.

Popeye the Sailor Man

I ran across the chords for Popeye the Sailor Man on Alligator Boogaloo and decided I had to work out the tune. This is the easiest way to play it:

But if you play it like this:

You can mix it up with this tune and everyone who hears it will instantly fall in love with you.

UkeTube

The best of the week’s ukulele videos after the cut

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Brian Hefferan - The Entertainer

Brian Hefferan - The Entertainer (Tab)

“Play something I’ve heard of,” a cry I often hear from elderly family members who are less than impressed with my Roy Smeck imitations. The fact is, no matter how technically adept you are, most people want to hear something they’ve heard a million times before. I suspect that, after ripping through the 24 caprices, Paganini’s grandma screeched, “Play that one off the cigar advert. You know the one.” Luckily, everyone recognises Scott Joplin’s The Entertainer.

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Brian Hefferan - Sailor’s Hornpipe

Brian Hefferan - Sailor’s Hornpipe (Tab)

Oh, the long, lonesome nights spent at sea blowing the sailor’s hornpipe.

Brian Hefferan (of The Fabulous Heftones) has for the last few months been uploading some staggering finger-picking uke pieces on YouTube. I couldn’t resist trying to work some of them out. Here, with the help of the man himself, is the first tab.

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UkeTube

A quick round up of my favourite ukulele videos uploaded to YouTube recently (in no particular order).

Mark ‘JazzUkes’ Occhionero - A Blossom Fell

A version of a song best known, to me at least, in a version by Nat King Cole. The chords for which you can find here.

Brian Hefferan - Foggy Mountain Breakdown

A blistering version of the tune made famous by the banjo of Earl Scruggs. You can see Scruggs playing the tune along with Steve Martin (yes, the ukulele playing Steve Martin), Jerry Douglas and Albert Lee here.

Mercedes Landazuri - El Chulla Quiteño

Shigeto Takahashi

There are plenty of great performances up from the recent New York Uke Fest, but this one caught me completely by surprise. I had, and still have, no idea who he is. But, judging by these performances, I want to hear a lot more from him.

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