Whero was not played as much as he should have been during October. Being busy with French paperwork, finding a flat and getting my head around a new job, city and lifestyle took up most of my time. But, I did manage to work on some new (and old) tunes towards the end of the month.
Prompted by my friend Cat, I attempted to start on this version of "Lately" by Stevie Wonder. It is for guitar, but it gives you the notes to work with. Beautiful song, fairly tricky for me to play beautifully with a run of awkwardly fingered chords in the chorus which sound gorgeous but feel a bit like hand yoga. I have also opted out of the key change at the end (which is how the original goes) and like to stay with the easier option of repeating the chorus a few times in the previous key, like in this beautiful version by the Taotua brothers. May you rest in Peace,Vini, you were gone too soon.
Seems October has been a melancholic month, and most of the new songs I have learnt are a bit emo. Guess I am feeling a bit homesick, and being homesick always eventually leads me back to Dave Dobbyn .
Luckily for me, Dave is good at making simple catchy tunes which generally transcribe well to uke... had already practiced Loyal with Uke Can't touch this (miss you guys!) so have been polishing that up. This version is specifically for guitar, but it gives a good general idea. Don't worry about Cadd9 and Dadd11- for the uke it's fine to play C and D instead. Nice, easy sing along which is instantly recognised by Kiwis, almost like our unofficial national anthem. Nothing like hearing Loyal when you are thousands of miles from home!
Had a craving for You oughta be in love, (yay! not so emo!) so after some you-tubing of the old video clip, I found some chords which were good overall, but need tweaking. Namely, in the first verse I play F instead of -F, The lyrics are all there though, so that's grand as I really don't know the words outside of the chorus!
Some one like you Adele
Pink Who knew
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