Uker Tabs

Soldier’s Joy

Here is my latest bluegrass ukulele arrangement. I’m really pleased with it.

Who will be the first to record it on YouTube? No prize, I’m afraid, but see if you can beat me to it.

KEN

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Portishead - The Rip (tab)

Quite possible my favourite track from the fantastic new Portishead album and one that sounds great on a uke tuned with low G. I love it’s simplicity and the sorrowful mood that it generates. The video is almost as fantastic as the song, we need more old skool animation, sod the fancy pants cgi stuff.

This is a really great song to play if you’re new to finger picking as the pattern is simple and is the same through the whole song. The eight bar melody is repeated throughout, the first four bars are in the key of C and the second four in G.

When the synth comes in and it gets a little more intense you could try lightly strumming the chords using your thumb to strum down once and then your pointer finger to strum up, down, up, repeat 4 times for each bar.

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Closer To The Heart Intro Hi all.  Recent convert from 15 years of guitar to the lovely world of the ukulele thanks to seeing Joe Brown live at The Stables in Milton Keynes UK (what a show , you should all try and see him if you can, brilliant performer). Anyway..was bored after work and listening to Closer to the Heart by Rush and thought, this could work on the ukulele, so here is a first go, which if nothing else shows that i have never tried to make my own tab before! I did it in WordPad which I think all PCs should have (unless mine is too ancient!) Check amazon.co.uk or .com for Rush albums and DVDs, plenty out there.  Comments/insults are all welcome from all

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If you live in the UK you may have come across a series of adverts for Cadburys Chocolate. The first advert featured a gorillia playing the drums to a Phil Collins track, and the latest one is equally unrelated to choccy…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvZnjOwFh2U

WTF!! I love this advert, it makes me squeal with joy like a 6 year old boy
I also love ‘Dont Stop Me Now’ It makes me want to jump up and down like a 6 year old - its just SO FUCKING EXCITING

When i started to look for a ‘uke friendly’ version of this track, i was very surprised to discover that Al hadn’t already done one, so here goes…

Dont stop me now - Queen

The tendancy (for me, anyway) is to play this as fast as possible, but im afriad you’ll have to try and slow it down a bit, cos theres some quick chord changes for the ‘dont stop me now’ bit.

Even if you havent got a copy of Queens Greatest Hits, the chances are that your Dad does. (its the law!!) But if not, get it here

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An old friend of mine turned me on to John Mayer after taking me to a concert.
This here be a good song…yar

Heart of Life

Should be easy enough to play…Oh, and I changed one of the chords because it had a changed root note on guitar so I just changed it to a C# which essentially has the same notes in the chord.

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Another one off the juno soundtrack thats been sitting on my HD for months. I would have posted it ages ago, but a baby came along and stole all my spare time

We could argue as to whether this is played with a ‘G’ & ‘C’, or whether its a ‘G’ & ‘Cmaj7′. Or whether its both! (some of the interweb seem to think thats its ‘C’, with a ‘Cmaj7′ at the end of each verse)
Ive decided that IM playing it with a ‘G’ & a ‘Cmaj7′, because i think it sounds nicest :p
It also makes it very easy to play, which is very good for beginners.  (Like my friend Rob, who STILL hasnt picked his new Uke up!!) All you have to do lift your index finger and your ring finger (as long as you’re married) to switch between chords! RESULT!

Anyone else but you - Moldy Peaches/Michael Cera & Ellen

The Lyrics are from the film version, rather than the Moldy Peaches version, but you can find them without much difficultly on the www

Listen to the album version here
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enjoy
zym

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Tangled Up in Blue

This is my arrangement of the Bob Dylan classic, Tangled Up in Blue, from his acclaimed Blood on the Tracks album. I mostly just followed the original arrangement for the version found on the album, but eliminated the E chords (substituting A in one instance) to make it easier to play on ukulele. The song isn’t really hard to play as the same chord progression is used for every verse.

In live performances Dylan has changed and rearranged much of the lyrics (and sometimes the music) as he does with many of his songs. The lyrics in the above arrangement are those found on the original album, though when I perform it myself I often use some of Dylan’s alternate lyrics, some of which can be found here.

Here is a video of me playing TIB and here a live Dylan performance from the mid-70s, both with alternate lyrics.

The original can be downloaded from Amazon.com here.

–Elijah Wilbury

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I found this nice song from the Latin American docta southern world…

the Argies seems be around in the 70s blossom,

this vamped version of Scott Mckenzie song propose the same spirit,

yet inspired on the Resistance City,

although with floods and crafts instead flowers on the way to the “Sculptured City”…

Going to Resistencia…

I’ll need found more about what thit chamame style does…

(this time expecting have overcame the uploading problem… )

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Saw this on the telly the other day…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbpi5YeBkCk

Though, that song is familar! After Hummming it for a full day, i finally placed it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_0cvd1EUM

YAY!! Bugsy Malone- i must have watched that film a million times as a kid

Give a Little Love - Paul Williams

Ive stuck this together based on several different versions on the net, im not sure if its 100%, but it sound OK.

And interestingly, The song was written by Paul Williams, who played ‘Little Ennos’ in ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ - 100% FACT
It ALWAYS comes back to Bert!!

Enjoy
Zym

(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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