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Original Post By:
cybermolly10
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Date: 1/20/2015 5:18:35 PM |
Me again, still struggling to learn to pluck out melodies on my ukulele. Today I attempted to work out the melody from Heart and Soul. If anyone has the time to check over my work, here's what I've got.
Original Notes:
CCC CBABCD EEE EDCDEF GC (high)AGFED DEFGFED
What I came up with:
A3 A3 A3 A3 A2 A0 A2 A3 A5 G9 G9 G9 G9 G7 E8 G7 G9 A8 A10 E8 A12 A10 G10 G9 E10 E10 G9 G10 A10 G10 G9 E10 |
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Posted By:
J Boy Shyne
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Date: 1/21/2015 2:37:55 PM
(Updated: 1/21/2015 3:42:42 PM)
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On uke, C is not a good key for the tune because of the low F note. With a low G uke tuned C6 (GCEA), D would be a good key.
Anyway, doing it in C, with a reentrant tuned C6 (gCEA) uke, here's a tab.
Heart And Soul
----C----- Am---F--------G
----/--- /--- /-- /-- -/---/----/-----/
A||3---3---3----|--3--2-0-2-3-5--|
E||---------------|--------------------|
C||---------------|--------------------|
g||----------------|--------------------|
---C-------Am-------F------G
---/----/--- /---/-------/--/----/--- /
A|7---7---7-------|--7-5---5-7-8---|
E|------------------|-------8-----------|
C|------------------|--------------------|
g|-------------------|-------------------|
---C------Am-----F-----------G
----/---/---/--- /----/-----/------/---/
A|10--------------|--12----8-7---5---|
E|--------8--------|---------------------|
C|-----------------|----------------------|
g|------------------|-----12-------------|
---C------Am------F---------G
---/----/----/---/-----/----/-----/----/
A|3-----3-0-----0-|---------------------||
E|-------------------|1-----1------------||
C|-------------------|--------------------||
g|--------------------|----------0---0---||
Man, formatting is near impossible on FMM. After much playing around the above is the best I can do (or I'm gonna do).
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Posted By:
cybermolly10
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Date: 1/22/2015 2:36:50 PM |
I was intrigued by what you said about changing the song to D, since I know just enough about music theory that I thought it would be a good brain exercise.
I came up with this: D D D D C# B C# D E F# F# F# F# E D E F# G A D (high)B A G F# E E F# G A G F# E
But the problem is now there's a high and low B, and there's only one B note on a ukulele. (I have a regular G string, not a low one.) Did I do this right?
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Posted By:
J Boy Shyne
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Date: 1/22/2015 8:13:47 PM
(Updated: 1/23/2015 4:06:23 PM)
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When I said D, I was referring to doing it with a low G.
Anyway, here's a pdf of the sheet music in F, so you can see the melody line as it was written by Hoagy Carmichael.
http://foudemusique.free.fr/download/Hoagy_Carmichael_HeartAndSoul.pdf
In F, as noted in the pdf, middle C is the lowest note of the melody, so F is the lowest key to play it on reentrant uke tuned C6 (gCEA).
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Posted By:
Ukulele Rob
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Date: 1/23/2015 12:25:59 AM |
J-Boy: You da' MAN. All these years I've heard piano beginners pick out a two-finger harmony of this melody line and never once did it occur to me that "Heart and Soul" might be an actual song! And now from your sheet music link to learn that it was actually written by Frank Loesser and Hoagy Carmichael, I feel as if some sort of veil has been lifted from my eyes. Wow.
cybermolly: Even a very rudimentary understanding of musical notation can be very handy, and in the end it's just a mathematically-based system of describing sounds. The tab charts in a book like Jim Beloff's and Fred Sololow's great "Ukulele Fretboard Roadmaps" (just coincidentally available here at FMM) can go a long way to getting you started. Keep it up! You're already learning a ton.
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Posted By:
cybermolly10
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Date: 1/28/2015 12:25:25 PM
(Updated: 1/28/2015 12:26:05 PM)
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J Boy Shyne, I just wrote out the sheet music you sent, and it is SO much easier than what I was trying to play. Thanks!
A|------0-0-----------------1-1--------------|
E|-1-1-----------1-1-----------------0-0----|
C|-----------2-2-----------------0-0---------|
G|----------------------0-0-------------------|
A|-----------------------------0-0-0---0-----------0-1-3--------5-3-1-0--------------0-1-3-1-0------|
E|-1-1-1---1-0----0-1----------------------1---------------1-----------------1--------------------------|
C|----------------2-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------0---------------0-----0----------------------------0------0-----------------0--|
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