March 7, 2025: In My Life is posted in the Member's Section.
We're rolling along making sure the baritones have the same material as the ukulele players and bringing you a reasonably complete set of arrangements for the Beatles top tunes. You can grab these sheets, work them up into your characteristic gorgeous playing, and go make some money sharing these songs with others.
John and Paul seem to disagree how this song evolved back in 1965, but you'll be happy to see the Wikipedia page includes an analysis by a robot and concludes it's mostly John's song.
The key I'm finding while playing this tune is to take it slowly, pay little to no attention to the metronome, and try to make every note count. It's a well behaved song, except the melody has an annoying habit of jumping up to fret 9. Luckily it's always the same shape up there, so it's a good opportunity to make friends with it. It'll come up in lots of other songs at different frets. You'll also find some quarter note triplets in there which is always fun to try and get perfect. Additionally, you'll see a few notes with parentheses in the tab. That means you might not play that note if there's nothing going on in the lyrics on that repeat. Either that, or just play them all the time and let your vocalist deal with it.
And, as I mentioned previously, after much agonizing, I'm adding the full standard notation of the TuffUke onto the new sheets and that notation will assume you're playing Low G. The chaos created by reentrant tuning on High G makes the standard notation almost unhelpful. So, if you're playing High G, the tablature is just fine, and any notes on the fourth string will play an octave higher than notated in the standard notation. This is actually a pleasant sound and makes everybody happy.
Keep an eye on the front page of Jolly Roger Ukulele to see what the schedule is each week and come join me for some of our online meetings to stay motivated playing ukulele.
