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bird's eye view of my ukelele
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jagcorps, that was beautifully played, a perfect tribute
if you're miserable and you know it... post a vid!
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Phluffy the Destroyer
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AlanDP
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Here's one that's obviously sad breakup song, but I really enjoy singing it.
AlanDP
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And since all blues songs are about being miserable and knowing it, here's a blues piece I wrote a couple of days ago.
UkeCan1
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Oh, is that the rule? I only know how to write happy blues! Are we allowed to post those here? When I am miserable and know it ... not that that happens often ... I sing happy songs to get me back to being happy.
I've written two blues songs and they are both ridiculously happy fluffy songs.
AlanDP
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I'm sorry, I forgot to use the sarcasm tags.
AlanDP
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This is another song by Kathy Dalton. I previously posted her "Pour Your Wine" in this thread.
I've been trying to figure out a decent strum for this for like 2 years.
I've been trying to figure out a decent strum for this for like 2 years.
UkeCan1
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Somewhere there's a thread about how to write a blues song, or rules for blues songs, or some such. A couple years ago, a few of us were thinking to write one that breaks all the rules, or does the opposite of each rule. I still haven't done exactly that, but I do seem to keep writing blues songs that, well, do not exactly fit them. That'd be a fun Season theme, come to think of it.
What is this blasphemy of 'happy blues'?
To me, 'The Blues' is kinda like the 'black-and-blue' you get on your thumb when you miss with the hammer, but instead, the pain is in your heart, at the seat of your soul. It's a dull ache that ebbs and flows, and when the tide goes out, taken with it is all joy and hope, still leaving behind the dull ache to resonate in a hollow, dark place.
To me, 'The Blues' is kinda like the 'black-and-blue' you get on your thumb when you miss with the hammer, but instead, the pain is in your heart, at the seat of your soul. It's a dull ache that ebbs and flows, and when the tide goes out, taken with it is all joy and hope, still leaving behind the dull ache to resonate in a hollow, dark place.
AlanDP
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Yes, I agree. At best it can be a "blues parody," which is what I consider happy songs I've written in blues form.
jagcorps
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Great...and now we lose Glenn Frey.
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