Dominator Ukulele Tabs

Hi folks. I know it's been a while since I've posted anything. Lot's of things going on keeping me quite busy.

Tonight I'm posting a short tab of an interpretation of a traditional gospel song. Pete Howlett, a very well known and talented luthier, from the UK plays this piece as background music to his many instructional videos posted on his Youtube account.

Pete had some folks asking for the tab over at Ukulele Underground. I saw the thread and Pete asked if I was reading the thread if I could take a look and help him out with it. I had him send me an mp3 of him playing it and the result is this really fun little ditty.

Tab can be found on the Tabs page using the link above at the top of this page.

Aldrine Guerrero performed a wonderful version of Imagine at this year's Tahoe Ukulele Festival in Reno. I didn't realize it until yesterday that he had posted a video back in 2009 of his arrangement. I thought the Tahoe video was the only one available. The two versions are slightly different but the structure is most definitely the same.

My tab is a hybrid of the two videos with some of my own chord voicings thrown in as well.

Hit the Tab link at the top of this page to navigate to the tabs page.
Enjoy!

Here is the video from Tahoe Fest:

Here is his 2009 video:

Tonight I'm posting one from the Ka`au Crater Boys that features some killer licks from the master, Troy Fernandez. I hade completed this tab a number of weeks ago but was waiting to get Troy's approval to post it. He contacted me a couple of weeks ago and gave me the go ahead but with the Southern CA Ukulele Festival and the Wine Country Festival activities going on I haven't had time to get it posted until now.

This is a fun 3 chord jam that you can play with a friend and it's even better if you can sing it. I've provided my interpretation of the rhythm but feel free to chunk away with something that works for you.

Tab is located on the tabs page via the link at the top of the page.

I've been holding back from posting this tab for a few months now. I was hoping to post the tab at the same time I uploaded a video of me playing it to Youtube. But I just haven't gotten around to smoothing the song out and getting the video done. Since it's been a while since I posted a new tab I thought I would just go ahead and get Gossip uploaded to the site and worry about the video later.

This is an awesome song written by an extremely talented ukulele player from Wisconsin, Neal Paisley. He can spank the heck out of a soprano uke with the best of them. Check out his VIDEO and be sure to subscribe to his channel.

Tab is located on the TABS page.

I haven’t had much time available lately for transcribing so I took a couple days off work this week and spent some time working on Here, There and Everywhere. This is a great song from the Beatles Revolver Album which was released on August 5th, 1966. I’ve had a number of requests for this one so I hope it helps those wanting to add this one to the arsenal.

Tabs are located on the tabs page via the link at the top of this page.

I hope the start of the New Year is treating you all well. For my first post of 2009 I offer you the solos to Ka`au Crater Boys “Opihi Man”. This is a fun song about the elusive opihi shellfish that clings to the shoreline rocks which made it very dangerous to gather during large swells. Here are the lyrics.

Sounds like thunder, gotta head for the high ground
White water coming, no foolin` around
Opihi man in the sun. Opihi man grab your bag and run
Opihi man another swell is coming your way
Opihi man another swell is coming your way

Gotta fill up your bag, with the yellow and black
Keep your eye on the wave, don`t ever turn your back
Opihi man in the sun. Opihi man grab your bag and run
Opihi man another swell is coming your way
Opihi man another swell is coming your way

Like the crab on the rock, you gotta run real fast
Keep your eye on the wave, don`t ever turn your back
Opihi man in the sun. Opihi man grab your bag and run
Opihi man another swell is coming your way
Opihi man another swell is coming your way

Repeat Verse 1

The tab can be downloaded from the Tabs page at the link above.

Just got back from vacationing in Hawaii and had an opportunity to sit down with Aldrine Guerrero and go over the tab to Cecilia. Turns out that Aldrine prefers to play some of the notes on specific strings making it slightly more difficult to play than what it could be. Because of this I decided to post two versions of the tab. The first one represents positions that Aldrine prefers and the alternate version represents positions that eliminate the stretching for the D chord in measure 23 of Section B. The alternate version also shows playing the last note of measure 9, Section A, at the 2nd fret of the G string instead of the 5th fret of the E string. Aldrine prefers the tone that the thicker E string provides over the thinner G string.

Both versions combine elements of the studio recording and the live performance at Mike DaSilva’s that kicked off their first west coast tour. Cecilia is a wonderful song written for Aldrine’s Grandmother. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I do. Tabs can be downloaded on the Tabs page via the link at the top of this page.

A friend of mine made me a compilation CD of a variety of Hawaiian tunes a few years back and Waimanalo Blues was one of the tunes that really caught my attention. The intro licks are somewhat infectious give it a sort of happy vibe.

The basic progression is simple and straight forward using the I (G), IV (C) and V (D) chords in the key of G. The G major scale consists of G, A, B, C, D, E, F# and back to G. So rather than showing a large number of measures of just the chords I have presented the important parts in this tab, including the intro, the two ukulele chord solos and the ending.

The Tab can be downloaded from the TABS page using the link at the top of this page.

I've had a number of requests for the tabs for Honey Baby by Three Plus. It is a simple 4 chord progression that I've jammed with Bruddah Mark and the gang a number of times but I never really new how the solos went. We jammed on this at Cerritos and I would just improvise and play whatever seemed to workout. I thought it was about time to put the ear to work and see what was going on with the solos.

There are some tutorials on Youtube and one of the guys has it really close and has been helping a bunch of folks get in the groove. I'm confident the notes are correct in my tab but I'm representing it here similar to the way I would play it. So feel free to use an open string where I choose to fret the note on an adjacent string etc.

I show just a basic rhythm throughout. You can spice this up however you'd like. I like to walk down in half steps every now and then when moving from the C#m to down to the Bm by adding the Cmin. It is a fun jam so just have fun with it. The same chords can be used to play Drop Baby Drop also. Do I see a medley in the making?

Here is a link to the mp3 on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e90Y3aY71DU

Have fun!

Tonight I’ve completed a tab for Erroll Garner’s jazz classic, Misty. The tab represents my interpretation of the song as played in the video excerpt below. This has some really cool chord changes. Enjoy!

Tab can be found on the TABs page from the link at the very top of this page.