Showing posts with label ukulele. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ukulele. Show all posts

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Washable Tattoo

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that I've gotten lazy and haven't been updating because I'm bad at keeping up with a blog(I am). Well you're WRONG (no you're not). I'll have you know, I have had to take on a rigorous work schedule (actually working the hours I'm paid for). I have to be there EVERY DAY (except Saturday) and work Filipino sweat shop hours (10 to 1)! I haven't had the time or the energy to play the ukulele. Do you realize how much effort goes into playing the ukulele? (Some.)

Anyway, I put this down in less than an hour so it's messy, but then so is everything on this site. If you can name the famous rhythm that stars in this song (or name who made it famous), I'll write you into the lyrics of an upcoming song. That's cool right? Better than money for sure! I'll give you a hint, it's called the "Blank Blankley Beat". AND I'll give you another hint. The musician who made this beat famous died recently.

Look, you're learning things! Which makes sense because this song sounds like it's for children (or performed by children). Shut up parentheticals! This song also has guitar in it, which is new. I haven't played guitar much since I bought my uke. It's really big and hard to play.

Enjoy.



P.S. My next post will have a bonus since I've been lazy.
P.P.S. I love comments more than life.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

I hate you all (not really)

The lyrics to this song come from this posting on craig's list.

Nothing says disgruntled like a girl and an out of tune ukulele.
Not really...unless that girl with the ukulele is Ani DiFranco.

Enjoy.



I don't actually have this much hatred. I just thought it might be funny as a song. I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man.

Secret Cover

So I didn't have enough fodder for the two posts I have in my mind for which I need suggestions (see previous post). I also decided that I'm allowed one cover per week, as long as I make a valiant effort to make it different from the original. This is my cover for week one. If you guess what it is and who it's by in the first 15 seconds A. I've failed at covering the song in an original manor and B. You've failed as a human being. Or you we're a 9 year old girl in the 90s.
But I don't want to give too much away. I spent a long night putting this together and downloaded audacity 3 times to make it work again. I'm not going to lie, there was some slamming of the mouse. But in the end it came out perfectly mediocre. Make note of the parts where I'm laughing with myself into a dark and dreary madness.
Enjoy!

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

O.G.

First entry. I guess they can't all be gems. I think what makes me the proudest about the song is my whistling skills. This song chooses to not rely heavily on lyrics. I wanted it to seem like you were listening to someone playing a dinky little song in a forest...in the 1920s.
Enjoy.