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.
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45 Responses to “While My Guitar (ukulele) Gently Weeps”
June 27th, 2005 at 3:40 pm
Cool!
June 27th, 2005 at 6:37 pm
Dis guy is fast as hell, you guy’s don’t even know, I got a tape from my high school may-day performance.
June 28th, 2005 at 9:45 pm
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.
June 28th, 2005 at 11:37 pm
Oh c’mon..it’s for a cable access show.
June 29th, 2005 at 11:34 am
Excellent.
July 7th, 2005 at 11:22 am
i can play the harmonica!!!!
November 11th, 2005 at 11:19 pm
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!!
December 5th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
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.
February 20th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
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!
June 13th, 2006 at 5:08 pm
“sucks a good song”…?! what kinf of an idiot are U ..? This is pure beauty, made me cry with delight… Go get a life.
June 13th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
He meant *such*, simply a typo
June 13th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Sorry then… quite confused ..! pls put the blame on my poor English…
July 24th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
I’m just suprised his ukulele didn’t burst into flames near the end. Great find!
July 30th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
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.
September 25th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
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
October 11th, 2006 at 2:51 am
November 3rd, 2006 at 3:23 am
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!!!
November 26th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
AMAZING love it!!
November 29th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Where can you find the tabs for “While My guitar Gently Weeps” fer Uke?????
November 29th, 2006 at 6:28 pm
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.
November 29th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
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.
November 29th, 2006 at 8:11 pm
Ohhh well thanks for trying if anyone else can find the tabs for the Uke i would much apreciate it!!!!!!!
November 29th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
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…
November 29th, 2006 at 8:26 pm
I found it on piratebay.org but no one is seeding it, I guess it’s the last place that it remains
November 29th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
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
December 6th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
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.
December 14th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
December 19th, 2006 at 12:15 am
wat are the notes/tabs to that?
December 19th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
–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.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:13 pm
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?
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:49 am
Yes. That’s exactly what I think.
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
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!!
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
wait, u posted them, where??
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:48 pm
were did u post them??
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Your humor is lost on this crowd, I see.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:40 pm
Read up thread a little.
December 24th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
no chaud said he posted the real tabs
December 31st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
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
January 14th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Not as fast as me on the malodahorn!!!
August 11th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I like puppies!
August 28th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
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.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:46 am
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!
November 21st, 2007 at 10:48 pm
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.
July 25th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
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
August 18th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
This video was shot for the NYC cable TV show - Midnight Ukulele Disco.
Check it out at ukuleledisco.com