Song Help Request Smells Like Teen Spirit - UO of GB style

strange62 · Jul 1, 2011

hey peeps-

I really dig the way they play smells like teen spirit, but whenever I go onto youtube, everyone seems to teach it differently (and much more difficult too). the way they play it seems easier.

Let me know if you have any leads. thanks!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZjnFZvCNc

J-Peg · Jul 2, 2011

I've actually been playing around with this song a little. I play it:

Am D C F

That's nowhere near the key Nirvana did it in, but if you're playing on the ukulele you're obviously not trying to sound like Nirvana anyway, so WTH.

strange62 · Jul 2, 2011

J-Peg said:
I've actually been playing around with this song a little. I play it:

Am D C F

That's nowhere near the key Nirvana did it in, but if you're playing on the ukulele you're obviously not trying to sound like Nirvana anyway, so WTH.

Thanks... that seems pretty easy, and sounds pretty good too!

jungleturtle · Jul 2, 2011

Seems to be G, C, Bb, D. Of course it's power chords w/ no 3rd on the guitar.

J-Peg · Jul 3, 2011

jungleturtle said:
Seems to be G, C, Bb, D. Of course it's power chords w/ no 3rd on the guitar.

Right, but if you want to play it with full chords, the first one is minor and the rest are major.
I'm a long time guitar player who's only recently picked up the uke. I found some guitar tabs and chord sheets for this that were in E and just used the same forms (for the full chords, not the power chords, and sounded out which were major and which were minor). Playing guitar chord forms on the uke transposes
it up a fourth to Am. If you wanted it in Gm it would be:
Gm, C, Bb, Eb.

spookefoote · Jul 3, 2011

To the best of my memory they play it

A 2100
D 2225
C 5433
F 5558

Hey, I've been wrong before

mustacheukuleles · Jul 3, 2011

i really would love to see the UO i wonder if they ever play in Arizona

spookefoote · Jul 3, 2011

check out their web site for tour details

spookefoote · Jul 5, 2011

Actually they're playing several versions at once. You might like to consider playing the A chord as 6400. It has a bit more power to it.

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