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Tag: 2000s

  • Linkin Park/Evanescence – In the End/Bring Me to Life (Tabs)

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    I decided to fulfil two requests at once since these two are the same song in my head. In the End is originally in Eb minor and Bring Me to Life is in Em. And they’re about 10 bpm apart. So it’s not a big challenge to combine them.

    Intro (In the End): A very simple riff to kick things off. But also very effective at setting up the harmony and vibe of the song. You can make your life easier by sliding up to the final note in bar 4 so your ring finger is free to play the following E note.

    Verse (Bring Me to Life): It’s hard to transfer rapping to the ukulele effectively. So I opted for the much more melodic verse from Bring Me to Life. The most challenging bits here are the quick notes at the start of bars 14 and 16. These mimic the chugging guitar in that section. But you can replace these with more relaxed chords if you prefer.

    Choruses: Exactly the same chords in both choruses. In the End‘s chorus is lower than Bring Me to Life, so I put that one first to create a build-up.

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  • Scissor Sisters – Take Your Mama (Tabs) and Jurassic Park

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    Intro: Kicking off with strums and a lot of muting (just relax your fretting hand so the notes don’t ring).

    Verse: A quick campanela lead into the verse. From there, it’s all open chords and a compact melody. Just a long string of pull-offs in bars 13 and 15 to deal with.

    Pre-Chorus: An even longer stretch of campanela notes starting out the pre-chorus. All played on open strings. Even though the song is in C major, the minor third (Eb) crops up here. Giving it a bluesy feel.

    Chorus: The falsetto means a big jump up the neck. Other than that, it’s just bashing out chords all the way.

    Solo: The solo is only loosely based on the original. So you’re free to use your own ideas. For my take, I’m mostly noodling around the chords and throwing in some bends.

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    Jurassic Park (Tabs)

    Here’s a quick tab of the main section of the Jurassic Park theme in tribute to, enthusiastic uker, Sam Neill.

  • Wii Shop Theme (Tabs)

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    With Nirvanna the Band the Show back in action, I was inspired to put together a version of the Wii Shop theme It works well on uke. But there are a lot of unusual chord shapes that might take a while to get under your fingers.

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  • Mumford and Sons – The Cave (Tabs)

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    The stomp-clap era has been receiving a sometimes unhinged level of vitriol recently. But I still enjoy it so here’s Mumford and Sons’s The Cave.

    Intro: The intro works very nicely on uke. Well worth learning even if you’re not bothered about the rest of the song.

    I’m using thumb-and-two-finger picking in this section. And switching to one finger per string in the other sections.

    Verse: The verse melody is very similar to the riff. So, to distinguish them, I’m using fretted notes rather than open strings. There are slight variations in the verses. But I don’t think anyone would notice if you played them all the same.

    Chorus: This section uses a mixture of strums and picking. With the strums getting more intense each time. The final chorus really ramps up the intensity and is the hardest part to play.

    Instrumental: Here, you’re bashing out the verse chords and the riff. There are also some hammer-ons that give it a very Beirut feel.

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  • Coldplay – Trouble (Tabs)

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    Coldplay’s Trouble is a nice, simple one. Even the solo is just a fancy version of the chords.

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  • The White Stripes – Fell in Love with a Girl (Tabs)

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    The White Stripes’ Fell in Love with a Girl is a simple song but the tempo is high. I’ve slowed it down in my version (from 180BPM-ish in the original to 170) but it’s still a challenge to keep up. To make things easier, the arrangement moves across the strings rather than up and down the neck. Which means there’s a lot of open strings and use of the g-string in the melody.

    Even more than usual, this one rewards practicing slowly. Let your fingers learn the patterns before building up speed . Because once it’s up to tempo, there’s no time to think.

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  • Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good (Tabs)

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    This arrangement of Amy Winehouse’s You Know I’m No Good. The chords are simple but effective. The move from Gm to Cm6 (a Cm chord with an open A-string) to D has such a melancholic and resigned feel to it.

    Nothing goes above the fourth fret (and even that is only in the solo), so there’s not much movement to deal with.

    The only challenging technique is the use of grace notes. A grace note is a quick note you play just before the main note. For example, in bar 8 you play the open A-string then immediately hammer-on at the first fret. This gives the melody more of human touch.

    When grace notes happen inside a chord, they’re written before the chord in the tab, but you play them as part of the chord itself. For example, in bar 2 you play 021X, then immediately hammer-on the third fret of the E-string.

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  • Outkast – Hey Ya (Tabs)

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    Here’s my take on Outkast’s Hey Ya! which was ably covered by the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra back in the day.

    Verse: The big challenge with this arrangement is the speed. The second verse in particular needs some quick alternate picking.

    The other thing to watch out for is the bars of 2/4 that crop up on the G chord in the verse and chorus.

    Chorus: I’ve arranged the chorus a couple of ways. The first half (bars 8 to 13) is just strumming it through (with the exception of a little bit of picking in bar 12).

    Then in the second half (bars 14-19) I add in the synth riff. It’s more tricky to play but the chorus feels incomplete without it. It’s your choice which way to play it.

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  • Stereophonics – Handbags and Gladrags (The Office Theme)(Tabs)

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    Handbags and Gladrags was written by, lead singer of Manfred Mann, Mike d’Abo in the sixties. But it wasn’t until the song was used as the theme to The Office (UK) and Stereophonics released a version that it became a hit. And it’s that version I based this arrangement on.

    Intro: The first four bars are the sweet oboe melody. Then the bluesier piano riff comes in bar 5 (which is my favourite part).

    Verse: The verse melody itself is very simple. The tricky part is quickly moving all the way up the neck for the piano riff. If you don’t fancy that, you can always sub in the oboe line for the piano line.

    Chorus: Also needs a few jumps around the neck but they’re not so big and quick. There’s a big stretch at the start of bar 16 to watch out for.

    Solo: The big brass solo is just three notes played over and over again.

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  • Green Day – American Idiot (Tabs)

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    Green Day’s American Idiot doesn’t require a whole lot finesse. Just blasting out the strums all the way through. The hardest bit is making sure the strum blocking is effective in the parts where there’s just a vocal melody.

    The solo is just messing around with the chorus melody and chords. Lots of scope for you to come up with your own set of chord inversions here.

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