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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

 

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Ukulele While My Guitar Gently Weeps

(from WidipediA:) "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a rock ballad written by George Harrison for The Beatles on their double album The Beatles (also known as The White Album)

More info available on WidipediA: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

George Harrison was a big fan of the ukulele and this is great song to play on the uke.

This is not the Jake arrangement. I've done my own arrangement for a low "G", C tuning and in the original key. This is based on the arrangement that I perform in concert in a George Harrison medley with Here Comes the Sun.

Here Comes the Sun feels like it was written on a uke. This is quite possible as George always traveled with two ukes. One for him and one just in case someone else wanted to play.

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Here is my take arranged for low "G" C tuning. Recording and video lesson coming soon.

FREE PDF download, 3 pages, Updated: 9/26/2007
FILE: WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps.pdf ( 112 KB )

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Song Notes

Chord Names

The chords names for the intro are sometimes shown in sheet music as: Am Am/G D9/F# Fmaj7. I've even seen Am Am/G F#m7b5 Dm7/F. The tonality of those four measures is an Am chords with a descending bass line A G F# F and back to Am.

Chords - A minor Section

||:Am | Am/G | Am/F# | Am/F | Am | G |
1) | D | E :||
2) | C | E ||

Chords - Amajor Section

A | C#m | F#m | F#m | Bm | Bm | E | E ||

High "G", C Tuning Change
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Line 3, measure 3 the last chord is a different voicing than the low "G", C tuning version.

Performance Notes

All notation should be uses as a guideline, not a literal transcription of a performance. Make the performance your own. Each time I play this song it is a little different.

(Video) Jake Shimabukuro
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

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Jake's well deserved world success was accelerated after this video was shot by Jason Tagg for his show Midnight Ukulele Disco in Strawberry Fields in Central Park. This video on YouTube has receive over 1.5 million views.

There are numerous other videos available on the web of Jake preforming this and other songs.


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