Yesterday

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Yesterday

• WidipediA: Yesterday

(from WidipediA:) "Yesterday" is a pop song originally recorded by The Beatles for their 1965 album Help!. According to the Guinness Book of Records, "Yesterday" has the most cover versions of any song ever written. The song remains popular today with more than 3,000 recorded cover versions, the first hitting the United Kingdom top 10 three months after the release of Help!. Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) asserts that it was performed over seven million times in the 20th century alone. Despite never being a UK number one single, "Yesterday" was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners.

"Yesterday" takes the form of a melancholic acoustic ballad about a break-up. It was the first official recording by The Beatles that relied upon a performance by a single member of the band— Paul McCartney was accompanied solely by a string quartet. The final recording differed so greatly from other works by The Beatles that the other three members of the band vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom. Although credited to "Lennon/McCartney", the song was written solely by McCartney.

PDF File - Solo Ukulele Arrangement

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

PDF File - Original Melody and Chords

Here are the basic chords and melody that I based my arrangement on.

Song Notes

I perform this song Rubato fingerstyle, pick and fingers and sometimes with pick.

As I'm preforming this song with a low "G" tuning I can take advantage of this low fourth string and incorporate some descending bass movement into the arrangement.

In this section I also get some contrary motion going. This is when one of the lines moves up, the top melody line in this case. And the other line moves down, the bottom of bass line.

Video Lesson

coming soon