Meet Jake Shimabukuro. This guy is just astoundingly awesome on the ukulele. Dig on his incredible version of ”While My Guitar Gently Weeps“.
I would totally sell my hands to the robot devil for that kind of skill.
While My Guitar (ukulele) Gently Weeps
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Cool!
Dis guy is fast as hell, you guy’s don’t even know, I got a tape from my high school may-day performance.
Yeah he’s good, but I would have expected a ukeleleist to be exempt from the requirement that guitar players introduce every song they play.
Oh c’mon..it’s for a cable access show.
Excellent.
i can play the harmonica!!!!
I like puppies!
hey i was just wondering if that is the accual song by the beatles performed in a different way? if it is were did u get the tabs (chords) cause its suck a good song!!
Yeah that’s a George Harrison tune. While my guitar gently weeps is rad, specially when he did it with Erick Claptin! That should be an easy tab to find. I’m sure you could find it on google with relative ease. Yea, that Raul dude is pretty groovey, he’s like a livelier version of Jack Johnson, but way more energy. I’ve been diggin Kings of Leon lately, Molly’s Chambers and King of Rodeo are cew songs. And Hayseed Dixie! Their hilariously awesome! They cover tons of awesome rock songs with banjos and blue grass instruments!
“sucks a good song”…?! what kinf of an idiot are U ..? This is pure beauty, made me cry with delight… Go get a life.
He meant *such*, simply a typo
Sorry then… quite confused ..! pls put the blame on my poor English…
This guy is amazing, what a player. If you like him you should check out Raul Midon. http://www.midon.com He’s just an amazing singer and guitar player. Check out the Kennedy Center perfomance. Also check out State of Mind his new cd, thanks for the clip of this guy though.
I’m just suprised his ukulele didn’t burst into flames near the end. Great find!
omg this guy is my idol. i have a uke but no way can i play that or even figure out how he does it. i have no idea wut tuning he is even in. if i cud get ahold of this guy id pay him 2 write tabs to this song lol.
i strung a cardboard box and scrap oak flooring with weed whacker twine and made a bass.
dig the vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4
I looked up the guitar tabs for this song after I saw the video. The song is fairly easy to play and mixed with some good fingerpicking rolls, will make it sound incredible….not as good as this guy tho!!!
AMAZING love it!!
Where can you find the tabs for “While My guitar Gently Weeps” fer Uke?????
I’m feeling nice today
Of course, I can’t speak to the accuracy of any of those tabs, being as I can’t play the ukulele with my mammoth claws.
whoops, nevermind.
It seems it’s hard to find. Ole’ Jake hed it (and all of his other songs) removed from most sites.
I tried to be nice for once, damnit! I won’t make that mistake again.
Ohhh well thanks for trying if anyone else can find the tabs for the Uke i would much apreciate it!!!!!!!
I found it on piratebay.org but no one is seeding it, I guess it’s the last place that it remains
True True bu ti woudl like to know how the tabs go for uke caus ei dotn hink there the same for acoustic i think the closest this to uke is bass bcause of the 4 strings but you have a good point he is a pro and probably personalized it
I think it’s more to do with being super good at playing the ukulele and it should just fall together. I mean tabs would be nice if your learning the tune, but this guy has obviously played it enough times to personalize it, and he’s become so proud that he won’t share them with you…
I got em, I finally got them!! I don’t even play Uke but here you go guys. Wow was that ever hard!
http://www.geocities.com/eatsleep_ride/jake_weeps.pdf
http://www.geocities.com/eatsleep_ride/
Now I can stop making fun of people who think they can play this song like jake if they have the tabs.
wat are the notes/tabs to that?
–x–x–x–x–x–
–0–2–5–2–0–
–0–0–0–0–0–
–2–4–7–4–2–
–2–2–5–2–2–
–0–0–0–0–0–
Just play that, over and over.
Quit asking for the tabs, I posted them, and quit trying to simplify Jake’s work (which is to say Harrison’s work). You seriously think he’s just playing that tiny little tab over an over during that masterpiece?
Yes. That’s exactly what I think.
Your humor is lost on this crowd, I see.
were did u post them??
no chaud said he posted the real tabs
w/e man i appreciate the work he’s played, obviously its not the 5 chords, u can even see his hands go above fret # 7, i guess ill watch his srumming, and learn from that!!
wait, u posted them, where??
Read up thread a little.
Is everyone done scrolling to the bottom and asking for the tabs like an illiterate numptynuts? If only I knew how to make a flashing blinky link to catch the eyes of our ever decreasingly short attention spanned friends here.
HERE ARE THE TABS!!null
Not as fast as me on the malodahorn!!!
Wow that was an amazing take on it, and by the way people, eric claptons version should not even be attempted on the guitar, very few can recreate what eric did to establish himself as such an amazing guitarist.
Amazing but if you do want to learn it it would take years of practice. It doesnt look easy. This guy is awesome by the way!
OMG dude. whoever found those tabs THANK YOU SO MUCH. i’ve been looking FOREVER and have had no luck what so ever. all the sites took it off due to his request. thanks again dude.
hey!
someone sent this to me when i was living & working in new zealand over a year ago…it’s july ’08 now.
i had goose pimples listening to the excellence!!
i’ve sent it to mates around the world!
i live in l.a.- in the film industry- and would love to know what you’re up to these days.
hope you get this jake!
kim lavery
This video was shot for the NYC cable TV show – Midnight Ukulele Disco.
Check it out at ukuleledisco.com
Jake is the best! I do think, however, that he must have sold his soul to get those skills. It’s just not FAIR otherwise!