Recent content by Tor

I'm in total agreement with the later posters here. To me there's nothing cool or exciting about downloading stolen material, period. And in this case it's perfectly possible to easily and legally buy the material, for a modest price as well (for the price of about two beers where I live...

Can't help you with that song, just mentioning that chords are the same for soprano, concert, and tenor ukulele. -Tor

I should maybe add that many ukulele players would maybe play all of this with just the thumb and the first finger, i.e. let the thumb handle strings 4 _and_ 3. It depends a bit on what comes easy for you, and where you're coming from (some of us guitar players tend to play the ukulele like we...

That's how I would play it I think. So, I would start with a G chord, play the two notes with my fingers (together), then the thumb on string 4, then keep the chord but lift the finger on the first string and play the first and second string together, then the thumb again on the first string...

I agree with that, in fact I've never been comfortable with Tab on guitar. Music notation works better for me in most cases, also because the effort of translating the notation to positions somehow makes it much easier to remember it. On Ukulele Tab works better for me for some reason. -Tor

Play the E string at position 3 and the C string at position 2 at the same time, then the 'g' string open. The way these are printed means that those two should occupy 1 beat (of 4/4) together, so one eight-note each. Then follow up (for the next beat) with the A and E strings played together...

There are some people who can remember songs w/lyrics very easily, even though I'm in the opposite extreme end (as I explained earlier ;)). I know a couple of guys (guitar players, one is a multi-instrumentalist) who both claim to remember around 600 songs or so. I've heard from others in the...

Depends on what you mean by 'learn a new song'.. :) If you mean how long it takes me to learn to play the chords along to the song, it doesn't take long. If you mean to learn how to fingerpick a nicely arranged melody, somewhat longer. If you mean how long it takes for me to get it into my...

I never think about the strumming during the verses, so I can't really tell (I would have to grab the guitar), but I just strum so that it kind of follows the lyrics. But you can listen to the record, it's pretty easy to figure out what to do if you really want to imitate the strumming pattern...

What's missing from the song as described in the link is the intro, and the intro is really what immediately identifies the song. em7 D em, em7 D em All down strokes. 6 short strokes on the em7, then one long and one short on the D, and one long on the Em. Repeat. Then go to the first verse (em...

This is one song where I've found it much easier to just watch videos instead of trying the tabs. In particular, Ukulele Mike's two videos (two parts of Crazy G) are really easy to learn from. I started working on part 1 the first week I had my first ukulele.

Slash chords are just chords with an alternative bass note. A "C" guitar chord has a C as the bass note, while the "C/G" chord specifies an alternative bass note - when fingerpicking you would play a G on the 6th string instead of the C on the 5th string. A "G/F#" indicates that you would play...

It's the same chords for all the verses, that's why they're not repeated. I.e. the first line of every verse starts with Am, then it switches to G inside the second line, and so forth.

It's an old word, it's basically the time of the winter solstice festival, in other words the Christmas period these days. 'tide' --> 'time' ('tid' is still used for 'time' in Scandinavian languages. Oh, and Yule too (written 'Jul'). More about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule

It's probably true that it's becoming the Stairway to Heaven song for Ukulele, but the wave isn't passing over all of the world at the same time.. so the song hasn't come to that stage everywhere yet. As far as instructional videos for this song goes I can only agree with Harold O.: This one is...