Pink Floyd – Money
July 11, 2007
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Last Friday, the Tatamimats‘ resurrected their Dark Side of the Uke show which inspired me to tab out the riff to Money despite it being one of the least uke-friendly riffs in history. The only way you can sensibly play it along with the original song and the Tatamimats’ cover is on the baritone.
The opening riff is in the unusual time signature of 7/8. I find the most comfortable way of keeping track of it is to count it as four beats then three. So I’m counting 1,2,3,4,1,2,3 for each bar.
The timing then switches to 4/4 with one bar of 2/4 for the other section of the song:
If you’re desperate to play the riff on the soprano ukulele, it is just about possible to so long as you play in F and you’re willing to cheat a note. The main riff goes like this:
With the other section (and here’s the note finesse) being:
Or you could keep it simple and vamp along with the original with a Bm chord.
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Friday Links
July 6, 2007
The Tatamimats‘ Dark Side of the Uke is causing a big stir. It may be because I’m not a Floyd fan, but I can’t see what the fuss is about.
Long forgotten uke-comedian Archie ‘The Uku-Laddy’ Bester gets a MySpace.
Photographic proof that ukuleles make you happy on nerd’s eye view.
Seven year old boy comes a cropper after getting over excited at a Langley Ukulele Ensemble gig.
AA Gill is a twunt. But you probably knew that already.
A Quick Question
When I’m posting, I’ll quite often put the chords in a pdf and put a short bit of tab – an intro, a solo, a riff – in the post itself. Does anyone find this confusing/annoying? On my Julien Doré post some of the comments in French seem not to realise the tab for the outro is right in front of them (I think that’s what they’re saying – I don’t speak French). Is it a language barrier problem or is everyone baffled?
