poniedziałek, 11 sierpnia 2008

Nice Little Penguins’ “Flying”

I got an ukulele a month ago and first song that came to my mind was this one:

This is a screenshot of Flying-UkulelenTabs.pdf I've googled out.
I've also found out about the origin of the song (nice story).

sobota, 9 sierpnia 2008

Hairshirt

I've learned this sometime around 1996 when bougth an old mandolin to play Losing My Religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairshirt_(song)

Hairshirt by R.E.M.
for mandolin

G (verse)
3 4 |1 2 3 4 |1 2 3 4 |
v v v v ^ ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E----------7---7---7---7-7---7---7-7-7-7-7---
A----------2---2---2---2-2---2---2-2-2-2-2---
D----------0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---
G--0---2---0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---

A9
|1 2 3 4 |1 2 3 4 |
v v v v ^ ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E--7---7---7---7-7---7---7-7-7-7-7---
A--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---
D--2---2---2---2-2---2---2-2-2-2-2---
G--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---

C7+
|1 2 3 4 |1 2 3 4 |
v v v v ^ ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E--7---7---7---7-7---7---7-7-7-7-7---
A--3---3---3---3-3---3---3-3-3-3-3---
D--2---2---2---2-2---2---2-2-2-2-2---
G--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---

G G2
|1 2 3 4 |1 2 3 4 |
v v v v ^ ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E--7---7---7---7-7---7---7-5-5-5-5/7-
A--2---2---2---2-2---2---2-2-2-2-2---
D--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---
G--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---

G (repeat verse)

then

A9 (chorus x3)
|1 2 3 4 |1 2 3 4 |
v v v v ^ ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E--0---0---0---0-3---3---3-3-3-3-3---
A--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---
D--2---2---2---2-2---2---2-2-2-2-2---
G--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---

A9 (4th time chorus) G2
|1 2 3 4 |1 2 3 4 |
v v v v ^ ^ ^ v ^ v ^
E--0---0---0---0-3---3---3-5-5-5-5/7-
A--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-2-2-2-2---
D--2---2---2---2-2---2---2-0-0-0-0---
G--0---0---0---0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0---

G (verse)

legend:
/ - slide (5/7 means slide form 5th to 7th fret)
v - strum down (from G to E string)
^ - strum up (from E to G string)
| - start/end of bar

based on my post to [rem99] mailing group from Mon Jan 8, 2001 3:05 am
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/rem99/message/1524