06 Nov 09 Chord Friday: Just cant get enough – drunken Hull Ukulele Group version
Originally performed by Depeche Mode, and covered by Nouvelle Vague, The Saturdays, and now a few members of the Hull Ukulele Group.
We made the video a while back, but ive only just got round to writing up a decent version of the chordsheet
Just cant get enough – Depeche Mode
As you’ll see, theres nothing complicated about it, and i think it sounds quite nice on the uke
Tags: chords, Hull Ukulele Group, ukulele
30 Oct 09 Chord Friday: Ever fallen in love – The Buzzcocks
Cracking song this one!! Like all good punk songs, the faster you play it the better it sounds 
The majority of the song is pretty easy, the trick is to get the changes right at the end of the “You should’nt have fallen in love with” line. The best way for me to explain it, is to spell it out phonetically. Its ‘Cee-Cee Eff-Cee, Cee-Cee-Eff-Cee’. The same pattern is used on the Bb/Eb bit.
Ever Fallen In Love – The Buzzcocks
Theres also a Db that pops up at the end. On the chord sheet ive written this as 4111, but it could also be played as 4456. Either way, you then just need to slide everything down 1 fret to play the C.
23 Oct 09 The history of hip-hop. In five minutes. On the banjolele.
EPIC WIN!!!
22 Oct 09 Chord Friday: We’re From Barcelona
There arent enough 29 piece Swedish pop groups in the world, as far as i’m concerned. Its fortunate then that we have ‘I’m from Barcelona’…
This is a great song, its dead easy, and would sound good with a ukulele group or a load people singing
Im from Barcelona – We’re from Barcelona
Why are ‘I’m From Barcelona’ huge, and why was’nt this song No1 all over the world!?
12 Oct 09 Make a ukulele from a margarine tub
In the real world, part of my job involves funding Family Learning and Family Literacy, Language, and Numeracy projects. Its great to see that a project down in Corby have used their funding to get parents and children to make their own ukes – out of margarine tubs, fishing line, and recycled wood 
Tags: ukulele
09 Oct 09 Chord Friday: I’m looking through you – The Beatles
This weeks tune is ‘Im looking through you’ by The Beatles, and what better way to create a bit of syncronicity than you show you the version from ‘Beatles Rockband’
I’m looking through you – The Beatles
Tags: chords, Computers, Games, The Beatles, ukulele
05 Oct 09 Ukulele song about robots
2 fizzypop Points for combining ukes and robots!
thanks to Uber-uke correspondent Al
02 Oct 09 Chord Friday: I kissed a girl – Katey Perry
The first of what will no doubt be a very short run series of songs that I will post on a Friday!!
Dont get me wrong, i have loads of new chord sheets of ukulele knocking around, its just that i’m in no way organised enough to keep posting them on a Friday!
First up, I kissed a girl by Katey Perry. I performed this at the recent Hull Ukulele Cabaret. (For the sake of comedy, i kissed a boy ) In my mind i’m sure i rocked!!!, but as i have said before, If only my singing ability matched my self confidence
The chords are dead easy, there are only 4 of them, its just a matter of getting the timing right!!
30 Sep 09 Top 3 “driving while playing the ukuele” videos
One word you can’t use to describe the ukulele is ‘dangerous’.
Certainly not ‘dangerous’ in a “your mother warned you about it” kind of way, or ‘dangerous’ in a “mad, bad, ukulele playing, and dangerous to know” kind of way.
So its always pretty good when people push the boundaries of what is considered appropriate behavior with a ukulele. And lets face it, playing the ukulele while driving a car is a pretty fucking stupid and dangerous thing to do. Im surprised i havent tried it yet
Its also pleasing to see that ladies can be just as brilliantly stupid as men (even ukulele superstar ones)
So, in no particular order…
Boozelele
Victoria Vox
Logophile
GREAT WORK – TRY THIS AT HOME!!
Tell the coppers i said it was OK
Tags: mad bastards, ukulele
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