Amanda Palmer, Broken Records: UkeTube

Arrrrrgh. Some serious interweb connection problems for me at the moment. I’ve got a few posts lined up, but if you’re expecting a message from me, you may have to wait a while.

Anyhoo, this week’s videos include Amanda Palmer covering another Radiohead song on the uke. I would have included the Jack and Meg of the ukulele Versi-o-rama doing thieir version of Tonight You Belong to Me were it not for Dailymotion issues - the singing and ukeing might not be the best around, but the video more than makes up for it. [Read more]

UkeTube: Jacob Borshard, Sweetafton23, WS64

Videos this week from Jacob Borshard, Sweetafton23, WS64 and many more.

Jacob Borshard - Rainbow Connection [Read more]

Sweet Soubrette, Sweetafton23, Aldrine Guerrero

You should probably brush your teeth after watching this week’s crop of videos featuring Sweet Soubrette, Sweetafton and Sweet Georgia Brown.

At the behest of Howlin’ Hobbit, I’ve added in links to the videos themselves.

Sweet Soubrette - Cut-Up [Read more]

East Boston Make Out Club Band and More

Watch my favourite recent ukulele videos including The East Boston Make-Out Club Band, sweetafton23 and The Fabulous Heftones my clicking ‘More’. [Read more]

Ukulele Video of the Year 2007: Sweetafton23 - Tom Cruise Crazy

Tom Cruise Crazy (Chords)

Thanks everyone who voted. After a nice, round 200 votes, the winner was Sweetafton23’s cover of Jonathan Coulton’s Tom Cruise Crazy. A very deserving winner (although if Willa had picked up that uke in her version of Re: Your Brains it might have been another story) and very topical. If you enjoyed TCC, watch MyHope - her own song with some definite Coulton influence.

You can go here to Digg Tom Cruise Crazy.

The chords for this version are a little different from the original. The most obvious difference being the ukulele version is in the key of A rather than E. There’s also this nifty little bit that crops up in the intro and at the end of the chorus.

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John King, Sweetafton23, Ukulelezaza

Officially, the Saturday UkeTube is on hiatus at the moment. However, these five videos are just too good. I had to share them.

John King - Bach Prelude

You have to check out his other three videos as well.

Sweetafton23 - Mr Fancy Pants

Brian Hefferan - Elite Syncopations

theDesignmachine - Fat Bottom Girls

Ukulelezaza - Paper Moon

Britney Spears/sweetafton23 - Toxic

Britney Spears/sweetafton23 - Toxic (Tab)

I’m quite ashamed to be mentioning Britney Spears for the second time on this blog, but the quality of this ukulele version of Toxic didn’t really leave me with much choice. She does a great job of cramming all the essential parts onto the uke.

The most challenging part of the song is the riff that kicks the song off. It starts off with a string of hammer-ons and pull-offs. The Fluke she uses is louder and has more sustain than many ukes. If you’re using a soprano you’ll have to work a little harder to get all the notes to sound clearly. The second bar of the riff she plays all on one string. If, like me, you’re so lazy you don’t like moving your hand unless it’s completely necessary, you could the second bar like this:

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