Song Help Request City of Stars from La La Land

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I saw "La La Land" this week (loved it!) and can't get the song "City of Stars" out of my head. I was hoping to find someone had uploaded a ukulele tablature of it on the Internet (preferably low g) but no luck, just chords. By the way, side note, but I absolutely HATE it when people call chord sheets "tabs." :mad:

I did find a good guitar tab version at https://youtu.be/laT5NchKQKo and figure I may end up trying to transpose that to ukulele. But on the off chance that anyone out there has a tab already, and wants be my hero and save me a few hundred hours, I figured I would ask. Anyone have a uke tab for this song?
 
Not yet, but when I find I spare few hundred hours myself I plan to have one (for low G). I had the same reaction - loved the movie, couldn't let go of the song - and after obsessing over it and sort of figuring out chord arpeggios that worked, I finally bought the piano sheet music and will be working from that. If the piano version will help you, let me know and I'll send it your way :)

Meanwhile - if you haven't seen these, take a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgBRxfjEzZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkF9ronLi8
 
Not yet, but when I find I spare few hundred hours myself I plan to have one (for low G). I had the same reaction - loved the movie, couldn't let go of the song - and after obsessing over it and sort of figuring out chord arpeggios that worked, I finally bought the piano sheet music and will be working from that. If the piano version will help you, let me know and I'll send it your way :)

Meanwhile - if you haven't seen these, take a listen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgBRxfjEzZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKkF9ronLi8

Ooh I really like those versions, nice. I managed to copy down the tab of the guitar version, I'm going to fiddle with that one for a while and see how it goes. Let me know how your arrangement from the piano sheet music comes along. PS Happy belated New Year to you! :)
 
Ooh I really like those versions, nice. I managed to copy down the tab of the guitar version, I'm going to fiddle with that one for a while and see how it goes. Let me know how your arrangement from the piano sheet music comes along. PS Happy belated New Year to you! :)

Thanks, and to you too!
 
I loved the movie as well! If you guys figure out the tab or find one, please share. I'd greatly appreciate it!
 

Oh my. I'm flattered these were your go-to choices for La La Land, glad you enjoyed them. Sadly, I do not have a tab for these, nor do I know how to document tablature...
If it helps, though, the way I went about doing these was by ear–listening to the original over and over again. I did not change much from the original chords. Once I had the chords down I simply stacked the melody on top. One personal touch I added was to play Ryan's part on the lower frets and Emma's on high, to recreate the duet feeling :)

If you have any more questions I'd be happy to help out. Good luck with the transcription. And if I come across a tab from Korea (where both La La Land and Ukulele are popular) I'll let you know.
 
Oh my. I'm flattered these were your go-to choices for La La Land, glad you enjoyed them. Sadly, I do not have a tab for these, nor do I know how to document tablature...
If it helps, though, the way I went about doing these was by ear–listening to the original over and over again. I did not change much from the original chords. Once I had the chords down I simply stacked the melody on top. One personal touch I added was to play Ryan's part on the lower frets and Emma's on high, to recreate the duet feeling :)

If you have any more questions I'd be happy to help out. Good luck with the transcription. And if I come across a tab from Korea (where both La La Land and Ukulele are popular) I'll let you know.

Thanks so much for the response, that's more or less what I'm doing too - working from the chords and figuring out the melody. But I'm slow :) If you do find a tab from Korea please post a link, thanks.
 
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