Tracklist
Laura Anglade – Not That One Of A Kind
Vivian Kim – Vivaldi's Concerto For Lute in D Major
Becca Stevens & Jacob Collier – As
Ryo Natoyama – Livin' On A Prayer
Mel Muñiz – Apasionadamente
Joe Martone – Letter From Home
Tavana – Time To Kill
Carrie Hope Fletcher – When She Loved Me
Ukulele Death Squad – Jurassic Park
Rebecca Sugar has been raising money for National Bail Out with a stream with Estelle (uke action starts at about 15 minutes) and auctioning off her ukulele.
Aloha Radio Hawaii is a beautiful album recreating the sound of the “golden age of Hawaiian music”. Although the project’s founder Dave Way makes the slightly strange assertion that Hawaiian musicians can’t play this way anymore so they had to use LA session musicians to keep it authentic.
Coronalele
– Musician, podcaster and author of The Chill Skill, Niall Breslin sent out 400 ukuleles to keep spirits up during the lockdown.
– UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock tries to distract from the bad news.
– And Matt Hancock’s rules meant that Opera-lele could get together and hum a song but not sing one.
– May Singhi Breen demonstrates proper mask wearing.
Window Shopping
– National Style 3 with some insane engraving.
– RIGuitars’ ukulele inspired by George Harrison’s Rickenbacker.
– Da H concert 14Fa S with violin-style headstock.
Patreon
A massive thanks to Uke Hunt’s Patreon backers. And double thanks go to July’s Tenor backers:
– Dan.
– Fiona Keane.
– Joseph Freeman.
– Katherine Penney.
– Nancy.
– Olga deSanctis.
– Pat Weikle.
– Pauline Leblanc.
– Potatoemagic.
– Sandi Clement.
– Trevor Mccravy.
July’s Patreon exclusive for Concert level backers is Julie London’s Cry Me a River.
Community Theme (Tab)
A short and sweet one: the theme to the TV show Community a.k.a. At Least It Was Here by The 88. It’s a jaunty little tune that transfers very nicely to uke. The highlight here is the rising chord move of C5-C6-C7 that builds the tension perfectly into the second half of the tune.
Links
Early in lockdown I published five free tab ebooks to help people keep themselves busy. With restrictions being reintroduced where I am, I thought I’d get ahead of the second wave and put together a few more.
Links to the individual posts are below. Or you can download all of them in one zip file here:
Tab Collection 2 (Zip)
And you can download the whole of the first collection in this zip file:
Tab Collections Part 1 (Zip)
The Beatles on Uke
1. Across the Universe
2. Blackbird
3. Here Comes the Sun
4. Hey Jude
5. Let It Be
Gaming Theme Tunes
1. Cuphead – Don’t Deal with the Devil
2. Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture – Mourning Tree
3. Minecraft – Wet Hands
4. Pyre – Vagrant Song
5. Super Mario Brothers Theme
6. Tetris Theme
7. The Witcher 3 – Gwent Flute Song
US TV Theme Tunes
1. A-Team
2. House (Massive Attack – Teardrop)
3. Magnum P.I.
4. M.A.S.H. (Suicide is Painless)
5. Twin Peaks
6. The Walking Dead
7. Toss a Coin to Your Witcher
Songs of the 60s
1. Audrey Hepburn – Moon River
2. Beach Boys – Sloop John B
3. Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz
4. Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
5. Patsy Cline – Crazy
6. Sonny & Cher – I Got You, Babe
7. The Zombies – This Will Be Our Year
Performance Notes
US TV Themes (Tab eBook)
Performance Notes
1. A-Team
2. House (Massive Attack – Teardrop)
3. Magnum P.I.
4. M.A.S.H. (Suicide is Painless)
5. Twin Peaks
Taylor Swift and Bon Iver – exile (Tab)
Being a huge fan of Bon Iver and not such a fan of Taylor Swift, I was curious to find out how this collab between the two would work out. And, while it lacks the musical and lyrical layers of a Bon Iver song, it’s very catchy. Certainly good enough for a tabbing.
I’m not too strict with the fingerpicking in this one. The intro is one finger per string picking. The verse and chorus have some rapid melody notes. So I switch to alternating between index and middle finger picking for those. Then I start using more strums when things get more strident in the bridge.
There’s nothing too challenging as far as the fretting hand goes. The chords will mostly be familiar to you, and it’s almost all played in the first position. The only exception is the little hop up to the fifth fret for the Dm in the bridge. There’s also a bit of a stretch for the Csus4 with the A-string, 5th fret on top.
