I’ve been making quite a bit of progress over the past week; I can now play 7 songs! I’ve tried my hand at a lot more, but the following came up easiest or most fun:
1. Dance Tonight – Paul McCartney – This is originally payed on a mandoline (so a ukelele sounds closer to it than a guitar) and I was addicted to the song last summer, so thats how it came to be the first one I tried
2. Ruby Tuesday – Rolling Stones – I was picking out songs for my new band and had enough of just one song on the ukelele so I tried this one; It’s a lot of fun to play, but as it’s such a slow song it’s easy to over-do it.
3. All Along the Watch Tower – Bob Dylan – just 3 chords in the entire song? I couldn’t resist… It’s also a good song for experimenting with different rythms and pauses.
4. Drops of Jupiter – Train – Another one that’s quite easy and it just sound really good
5. Sure Pinocchio – John Hiatt – I was originally going for “child of the wild blue yonder” but it was a bit too hard, so I looked at some other John Hiatt songs (The ones that were covered by dutch singer Ilse DeLange on her album ‘Dear John’) and this one just came up. It’s a bit quirky and a lot of fun to play and sing
6. The Back of my mind – John Hiatt – another one that came up, but this one’s slow and emotional the way Ilse plays it. It’s rather hard to sing and, again: mind your rythm – don’t go too fast or too much (pauses sound nice as well)
7. House of the rising sun – the Animals / Bob Dylan – So what if it’s corny? It’s really cool and the animals’ version is brilliant to sing!
