Thursday, November 12, 2015

Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Paul’s Dance (Tab)


Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Paul’s Dance (Solo Tab)

This lovely PCO tune is a duet between ukulele and cuatro. But it also stands up very well as a solo ukulele piece.

If you do have a spare cuatro player laying around the tab is exactly the same. They take advantage of the fact the uke and cuatro are tuned to the same notes (in this case D-tuning: ADF#B) but the A- and B-strings on the cuatro are an octave below those on the uke. That means the same tab played on both creates two different melodies that fit together perfectly. It’s a neat trick.

For my version I was too lazy to move to D-tuning so I just stayed in C-tuning and put a capo on the second fret to get the same result.

I love this live version of Paul’s Dance so I worked from that one. There are a few differences between this and the album version. The most obvious is that the live version uses more changes in pace and dynamics.

A less obvious one is a slight change in bar 8 of the tab. The recorded version goes like this:

PaulsDanceUkulele

Links

Buy it on iTunes
Music for a Found Harmonium Tab

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