Song Help Request Help with this awesome Allman Brothers tune- Blue Sky

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http://www.guitarparty.com/song/blue-sky

I have this in the key of C and it sounds pretty good. I haven't seen anyone do any allman bros ukulele and this song just sounds so fun.

I'm looking for help with the ascending and descending riff that I hear throughout the song. Sounds like it could be managed and actually sound pretty good. If anyone can wrap their fingers around something at least for me as a starting point would be fantastic! Thanks


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuDU8Ky3dyY

Riff can be heard at very beginning and before the chorus
 
Hey, brother.
I just got to see the Allmans play here in my home town Friday night!
Third time they've played here, '72, '95, '12, and I was at all three, I'm a lucky man.

Good for you for wanting to get beyond the strum stage into some gorgeous melody.

I'm not inspired to tab you out a note for note.
Anyway, it's high time you learned to find a guitar tab with lead lines and adapt it to uke.
The top three strings are tuned identical, top four if you string a tenor with a low g.

The big secret: All you have to do is subtract five from the note numbers for them to sound the same on a uke.
On a normally tuned uke the G will be an octave high, but the notes are the same.
Once you find the melody, find a point on the uke a string or two up or down that gets you where you want to be.
When they drop below the 4th string, you're on your own, but it's not difficult.

A guitar is tuned EADGBE, pretty simple math to shift the melodies up an octave or two.
Look at this one and have fun with it, I'm sure it will give you some ideas for a starting point, at least.

http://www.guitaretab.com/a/allman-brothers/24676.html
 
Low g

xx03 xxx0 x03x xx0x xx0x ho xx1x po xx0x 02xx xx0x 00xx
 
You may have tabbed it out already, or found one (I haven't) in the 6 years since the original post. You can try figuring it out from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTjEe7VN27k. He's using a low G. I tabbed about a third of it, got frustrated, and put it aside. At the time it was too ambitious for where I was at as a player anyway. Let me know if you converted a guitar tab or found a uke tab of it, and if, even better, you posted a video of your version.
 
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