Moondance by Van Morrison
My next project, just as soon as I finish with Basin Street Blues below…
Van Morrison’s song arranged and played by Colin Tribe on soprano ukulele.It fitted so well it could have been written for the Uke!
Music&tabs from colinrtribe@btinternet.com
The Basin Street Blues / 1926
The Piece I am on now, also arranged by Colin.
A lovely early Jazz tune written by Spencer Williams in honour of the New Orleans Street where he lived in 1926, here played on Ukulele by Colin Tribe, Music&tabs from colinrtribe@btinternet.com
Moanin’ by Bobby Timmins
By Colin Tribe, he offered also the tabs and some tabs on improvising.
He generally offers any one of his 280+ tabs and arrangements for free as first try and asks very reasonable prices for convenient packages. I bought a “Starter Kit” of 10 of my most favorite Jazz and Blues tabs for 8 GP (Pounds), the bigger the qty, the better the rebate and the Tabs are quiet excellent. Actually the only one I was disappointed at first is the on for this song: Moanin. It was only a one pager and a lot of the stuff of the video missing, until I realized that it was only the basic riffs to go start exploring. All the other tabs (for songs) are much more detailed, but her less is really more…;-)
Here is what Colin has to say:
A jazz tune, this one from Bobby Timmins, here arranged for Ukulele with Band in a Box backing track. Music&tabs of the head from colinrtribe@btinternet.com
Part 1 of the alternative chord shapes for Blues in A and E.
I always wanted to have all alternative chord shapes together in one place, ‘cause by not using them too often (yet) I always had the problem not to remeber the exact opportunities I have at a certain point and much too often, when I finally looked them up, part of the “flowing” idea of the music was lost.
I have them also as PowerTab files and PDF’s, if you would like them in one of these formats just use the link to the right to contact me.
Und yes, please disregard the music notation, one of the very few bugs in PowerTab is that you can’t switch them off und use Tabs only.
Part 2 of the alternative Blues chords, here are also the relative minors as shown in some circles of 5ths.
A relative minor chord can be used instead of a corresponding major chord where you feel it may fit from the style of music you want to play.
Below are two pieces by Jake and an interview, highly recommended listening for the poeple that want to advance a step (or ten) on the Uke…..
Winter Blues
By Werner Odwer 2011
This is a simple Uke Blues in Am, the music to this piece is furthe down the page.
This is my first try with PowerTab, had to find a pdf to jpg converter since tumblr doesn’t allow upload of PDFs. (don’t use the “free office blah bla” converter, it is all over the place, but annoying (5 Questions to buy for every conversion, one would have been alright…) and it is very shitty on graphics in the pdf)
I ended up using “FM PDF to JPG converter” which is free in low resolution pics, but that works fine for tumbr / blogging.
Rock Around Johnny B. Goode
Hey another one from WS64 the guy with many names but an unique Uke style
Here some words from him too:
Here’s a medley of 2 of the most famous Rock’n’Roll songs, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around The Clock” and Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode”. The bass-WS64 even plays an upright bass this time. Kinda! ;)
MP3 is available here: http://www.box.net/shared/ifzsizlbv2
and some more:
WS How long does it usually take you to arrange and then memorize a song like this?
This one is a “One-day-song”.I just played some rock’n’roll riffs, and suddenly there were both songs, I just had to do some arrangement around it. From the moment I played the first riffs to until the complete ukulele part was recorded and filmed I guess 2 or 3 hours passed, not more. The problem is to be still able to play this song after I started working on the next!
WS64 1 year ago
Under WS64 you can find much more on Youtube and for most of it he also offers the MP3 files. Thanks for sharing, man.
