BLACKPINK – Kill This Love (Tab)
I love Blackpink’s willingness to hurl every idea and genre into one song. Kill This Love starts with blaring brass, goes through rapping, diva crooning and girl-power yelling before switching from swing-time to march-time for a militaristic outro.
Keeping up with all that on a ukulele takes a variety of techniques. In the intro I strum the big blasts at the start of bars 1 and 3 and pick everything else. The verses are fingerpicked and played very staccato (i.e. keeping the notes short). I miss out the, “Here I come kicking the door,” section and move straight into the pre-chorus. This continues the staccato playing in the first half before being played more smoothly from bar 21.
Heading into the chorus, I use a triplet strum (strumming down with my middle and index fingers, down with my thumb then up with middle and index). Then I blast out the chorus with as much strum power as I can manage while strum blocking any notes I don’t want to sound.
The outro starts with some thumb and two finger picking with the thumb on the C-string having duel duties picking the melody and providing a steady beat.I make a bit of a hash of the final part of the outro. So follow the tab rather than the video here. But blast it out as loud as you can.
