Chords for WIPE OUT for the UKULELE - UKULELE LESSON / TUTORIAL by "UKULELE MIKE"
Tempo:
63.625 bpm
Chords used:
A
Em
E
Ab
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[Gbm] [A]
[Ab] Wipeout.
[F] [Em] [A] [C] [Bb]
[Em] [A] [Fm] [F] [Fm] [C]
[E] [Am] [D]
[Em] [E] Alright, Wipeout.
[Ab] Introduced first by the Safaris back around 1958,
then made immensely popular by the Tacoma-based
rock and roll hall of fame band, The Ventures.
Wipeout is based on a classic 12-bar blues structure,
and in this case, we're working off of the A7 [A] key.
The melody outlines the chords A7, [D] D7, [E] and E7.
The entire melody is only played on the first and second string.
And if you go up to the little description box up in the right corner,
click on my [N] Mediafire file sharing site,
you can download a PDF that I constructed of Wipeout.
And in that PDF, I've broken it down into five individual riffs.
And you would want to practice each riff independently,
and then eventually put it together.
What you also want to do is have the PDF file next to your computer
and look at the video, follow that, look at the PDF and compare,
because there are a few little items that I do in my performance
here in this video that aren't on the PDF.
Just for simplicity's sake, I didn't put them in there.
I'll show you what those are in a moment.
But let's break it down into the sections.
We'll take the first little riff.
It's played off the second string.
We play it [E] open first.
And I'm just using my thumb all the way through to play this.
We play the open second string,
then index finger on the third [G] fret,
[Abm] middle finger on the fifth fret,
and ring finger [Bb] on the [Ab] third, [Gbm] fourth, and fifth.
[Gm] So it's third fret, [Ab] fourth fret, [F] then fifth fret.
[Em] You're just walking up the scale.
Zero, [Ab] three, [A] four, [Bb] five.
Then you go back down, but you skip the middle [Em] note.
So it sounds like this.
[A] [Gm] [E] And you might just want to play that little riff repetitively
until you memorize that,
[D] [Em] because if you get that, you've got the kernel of the whole song.
So that little riff right there [A] is [Em] the basis of this entire piece.
You've got it [A] made.
[Em] [A]
[Em] [A] [N] Then we shift over to the first string,
play the exact same pattern,
starting on the open string,
going to the third fret, the fourth fret, and [F] the fifth.
[Bb] [F] [Bb] [Am]
But we [Ab] stop right there and shift back to the second [A] string
and pick it up.
[C]
[Bb] Then we do this little walk-up that goes like this.
[C] [E] And what I'm doing there is I'm taking the fifth fret [A] of the second string,
going to the third fret of the [C] first,
[G] to the fifth fret of the first,
hitting it again and sliding up to the seventh fret.
[F] So it [Bb]
[Am] goes
You might want to do just [Dm] that [Am] over and over again
until you [C] have that memorized.
[E]
Then you do this little figure.
[Em] And what I'm doing there is first string, seventh fret,
[Gm] twice, fifth fret,
[Eb] then I shift over to the second [B] string, seventh fret,
[E] back to the first string, seventh fret.
So this ring finger's got to move from the first string
to the second string and then back.
And when you do that, remember,
your right-hand thumb has got to shift with it.
So it goes
[Em]
Then shift the hand down two frets,
[Fm] and go
[A] [G] I'm going 5-5 [F]-3-5.
Then [E] we go back to our little first riff that we learned,
[A] [Em]
and then go to [E] an E7 chord,
stroke it five times.
That's the turnaround chord,
meaning we turn around and go back to [Ab] the beginning,
and it starts all over [A] again.
[Em]
[A] [C] [A] [Em] [Am] [Bb] [Am]
[C] So forth.
Now, there's two little walk-up patterns
that I want to show you that I do.
[Gb] I [Ab] go
[N] That's not in the PDF file.
So you might want to see how I do that in the performance,
compare that to the little PDF.
The other thing, too, is that shift back
from the first string to the second string
before the first part of that riff is finished
is not quite the same on the PDF.
So have the two side by side,
the PDF and the U2 performance,
and just compare the two.
It's fun to do lead patterns on the uke.
It's a departure from just playing chords,
and it'll lead to other things
that you never thought possible with ukulele.
So have fun with it.
I'll wipe out a little bit later on.
I'm going to put down a pipeline
and a few other of the Ventures tunes
for my arrangements for ukulele.
I'll be doing videos on those during the summer.
So be looking forward to those,
and happy strumming and have fun.
[A] [Gbm] [A]
[Ab] Wipeout.
[F] [Em] [A] [C] [Bb]
[Em] [A] [Fm] [F] [Fm] [C]
[E] [Am] [D]
[Em] [E] Alright, Wipeout.
[Ab] Introduced first by the Safaris back around 1958,
then made immensely popular by the Tacoma-based
rock and roll hall of fame band, The Ventures.
Wipeout is based on a classic 12-bar blues structure,
and in this case, we're working off of the A7 [A] key.
The melody outlines the chords A7, [D] D7, [E] and E7.
The entire melody is only played on the first and second string.
And if you go up to the little description box up in the right corner,
click on my [N] Mediafire file sharing site,
you can download a PDF that I constructed of Wipeout.
And in that PDF, I've broken it down into five individual riffs.
And you would want to practice each riff independently,
and then eventually put it together.
What you also want to do is have the PDF file next to your computer
and look at the video, follow that, look at the PDF and compare,
because there are a few little items that I do in my performance
here in this video that aren't on the PDF.
Just for simplicity's sake, I didn't put them in there.
I'll show you what those are in a moment.
But let's break it down into the sections.
We'll take the first little riff.
It's played off the second string.
We play it [E] open first.
And I'm just using my thumb all the way through to play this.
We play the open second string,
then index finger on the third [G] fret,
[Abm] middle finger on the fifth fret,
and ring finger [Bb] on the [Ab] third, [Gbm] fourth, and fifth.
[Gm] So it's third fret, [Ab] fourth fret, [F] then fifth fret.
[Em] You're just walking up the scale.
Zero, [Ab] three, [A] four, [Bb] five.
Then you go back down, but you skip the middle [Em] note.
So it sounds like this.
[A] [Gm] [E] And you might just want to play that little riff repetitively
until you memorize that,
[D] [Em] because if you get that, you've got the kernel of the whole song.
So that little riff right there [A] is [Em] the basis of this entire piece.
You've got it [A] made.
[Em] [A]
[Em] [A] [N] Then we shift over to the first string,
play the exact same pattern,
starting on the open string,
going to the third fret, the fourth fret, and [F] the fifth.
[Bb] [F] [Bb] [Am]
But we [Ab] stop right there and shift back to the second [A] string
and pick it up.
[C]
[Bb] Then we do this little walk-up that goes like this.
[C] [E] And what I'm doing there is I'm taking the fifth fret [A] of the second string,
going to the third fret of the [C] first,
[G] to the fifth fret of the first,
hitting it again and sliding up to the seventh fret.
[F] So it [Bb]
[Am] goes
You might want to do just [Dm] that [Am] over and over again
until you [C] have that memorized.
[E]
Then you do this little figure.
[Em] And what I'm doing there is first string, seventh fret,
[Gm] twice, fifth fret,
[Eb] then I shift over to the second [B] string, seventh fret,
[E] back to the first string, seventh fret.
So this ring finger's got to move from the first string
to the second string and then back.
And when you do that, remember,
your right-hand thumb has got to shift with it.
So it goes
[Em]
Then shift the hand down two frets,
[Fm] and go
[A] [G] I'm going 5-5 [F]-3-5.
Then [E] we go back to our little first riff that we learned,
[A] [Em]
and then go to [E] an E7 chord,
stroke it five times.
That's the turnaround chord,
meaning we turn around and go back to [Ab] the beginning,
and it starts all over [A] again.
[Em]
[A] [C] [A] [Em] [Am] [Bb] [Am]
[C] So forth.
Now, there's two little walk-up patterns
that I want to show you that I do.
[Gb] I [Ab] go
[N] That's not in the PDF file.
So you might want to see how I do that in the performance,
compare that to the little PDF.
The other thing, too, is that shift back
from the first string to the second string
before the first part of that riff is finished
is not quite the same on the PDF.
So have the two side by side,
the PDF and the U2 performance,
and just compare the two.
It's fun to do lead patterns on the uke.
It's a departure from just playing chords,
and it'll lead to other things
that you never thought possible with ukulele.
So have fun with it.
I'll wipe out a little bit later on.
I'm going to put down a pipeline
and a few other of the Ventures tunes
for my arrangements for ukulele.
I'll be doing videos on those during the summer.
So be looking forward to those,
and happy strumming and have fun.
[A] [Gbm] [A]
Key:
A
Em
E
Ab
C
A
Em
E
[Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ [Ab] Wipeout.
[F] _ [Em] _ [A] _ [C] _ [Bb] _
[Em] _ [A] _ [Fm] _ _ [F] _ [Fm] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _
[Em] _ [E] _ _ Alright, Wipeout.
[Ab] Introduced first by the Safaris back around 1958,
then made immensely popular by the Tacoma-based
rock and roll hall of fame band, The Ventures.
Wipeout is based on a classic 12-bar blues structure,
and in this case, we're working off of the A7 [A] key.
The melody outlines the chords A7, _ _ [D] D7, _ _ [E] and E7.
_ _ The entire melody is only played on the first and second string.
And if you go up to the little description box up in the right corner,
click on my [N] Mediafire file sharing site,
you can download a PDF that I constructed of Wipeout.
And in that PDF, I've broken it down into five individual riffs.
_ And you would want to practice each riff independently,
and then eventually put it together.
What you also want to do is have the PDF file next to your computer
and look at the video, follow that, look at the PDF and compare,
because there are a few little items that I do in my performance
here in this video that aren't on the PDF.
Just for simplicity's sake, I didn't put them in there.
I'll show you what those are in a moment.
But let's break it down into the sections.
We'll take the first little riff.
It's played off the second string.
We play it [E] open first.
_ And I'm just using my thumb all the way through to play this.
We play the open second string,
then index finger on the third [G] fret,
[Abm] middle finger on the fifth fret,
and ring finger [Bb] on the [Ab] third, [Gbm] fourth, and fifth.
[Gm] So it's third fret, [Ab] fourth fret, [F] then fifth fret.
[Em] You're just walking up the scale.
Zero, [Ab] three, [A] four, [Bb] five.
Then you go back down, but you skip the middle [Em] note.
So it sounds like this.
[A] _ _ [Gm] _ [E] And you might just want to play that little riff repetitively
until you memorize that,
[D] _ [Em] because if you get that, you've got the kernel of the whole song.
So that little riff right there [A] is [Em] the basis of this entire piece.
You've got it [A] made.
_ _ _ [Em] _ [A] _
[Em] _ [A] [N] Then we shift over to the first string,
play the exact same pattern,
starting on the open string,
going to the third fret, the fourth fret, and [F] the fifth.
[Bb] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [Am]
But we [Ab] stop right there and shift back to the second [A] string
and pick it up.
_ [C] _
[Bb] _ Then we do this little walk-up that goes like this.
[C] [E] And what I'm doing there is I'm taking the fifth fret [A] of the second string,
going to the third fret of the [C] first,
[G] to the fifth fret of the first,
hitting it again and sliding up to the seventh fret.
[F] So it [Bb]
[Am] goes_
You might want to do just [Dm] that [Am] over and over again
until you [C] have that memorized.
[E]
Then you do this little figure.
[Em] _ And what I'm doing there is first string, seventh fret,
[Gm] _ twice, fifth fret,
[Eb] then I shift over to the second [B] string, seventh fret,
[E] back to the first string, seventh fret.
So this ring finger's got to move from the first string
to the second string and then back.
And when you do that, remember,
your right-hand thumb has got to shift with it.
So it goes_
[Em] _ _ _
Then shift the hand down two frets,
[Fm] and go_
[A] [G] I'm going 5-5 [F]-3-5.
Then [E] we go back to our little first riff that we learned,
[A] _ [Em] _
and then go to [E] an E7 chord,
stroke it five times. _
That's the turnaround chord,
meaning we turn around and go back to [Ab] the beginning,
and it starts all over [A] again.
[Em] _ _
[A] _ [C] _ [A] _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _ [Am] _
[C] So forth.
Now, there's two little walk-up patterns
that I want to show you that I do.
[Gb] I [Ab] go_
[N] That's not in the PDF file.
So you might want to see how I do that in the performance,
compare that to the little PDF.
The other thing, too, is that shift back
from the first string to the second string
before the first part of that riff is finished
is not quite the same on the PDF.
So have the two side by side,
the PDF and the U2 performance,
and just compare the two.
It's fun to do lead patterns on the uke.
It's a departure from just playing chords,
and it'll lead to other things
that you never thought possible with ukulele.
So have fun with it.
I'll wipe out a little bit later on.
I'm going to put down a pipeline
and a few other of the Ventures tunes
for my arrangements for ukulele.
I'll be doing videos on those during the summer.
So be looking forward to those,
and happy strumming and have fun.
[A] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] Wipeout.
[F] _ [Em] _ [A] _ [C] _ [Bb] _
[Em] _ [A] _ [Fm] _ _ [F] _ [Fm] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [Am] _ [D] _
[Em] _ [E] _ _ Alright, Wipeout.
[Ab] Introduced first by the Safaris back around 1958,
then made immensely popular by the Tacoma-based
rock and roll hall of fame band, The Ventures.
Wipeout is based on a classic 12-bar blues structure,
and in this case, we're working off of the A7 [A] key.
The melody outlines the chords A7, _ _ [D] D7, _ _ [E] and E7.
_ _ The entire melody is only played on the first and second string.
And if you go up to the little description box up in the right corner,
click on my [N] Mediafire file sharing site,
you can download a PDF that I constructed of Wipeout.
And in that PDF, I've broken it down into five individual riffs.
_ And you would want to practice each riff independently,
and then eventually put it together.
What you also want to do is have the PDF file next to your computer
and look at the video, follow that, look at the PDF and compare,
because there are a few little items that I do in my performance
here in this video that aren't on the PDF.
Just for simplicity's sake, I didn't put them in there.
I'll show you what those are in a moment.
But let's break it down into the sections.
We'll take the first little riff.
It's played off the second string.
We play it [E] open first.
_ And I'm just using my thumb all the way through to play this.
We play the open second string,
then index finger on the third [G] fret,
[Abm] middle finger on the fifth fret,
and ring finger [Bb] on the [Ab] third, [Gbm] fourth, and fifth.
[Gm] So it's third fret, [Ab] fourth fret, [F] then fifth fret.
[Em] You're just walking up the scale.
Zero, [Ab] three, [A] four, [Bb] five.
Then you go back down, but you skip the middle [Em] note.
So it sounds like this.
[A] _ _ [Gm] _ [E] And you might just want to play that little riff repetitively
until you memorize that,
[D] _ [Em] because if you get that, you've got the kernel of the whole song.
So that little riff right there [A] is [Em] the basis of this entire piece.
You've got it [A] made.
_ _ _ [Em] _ [A] _
[Em] _ [A] [N] Then we shift over to the first string,
play the exact same pattern,
starting on the open string,
going to the third fret, the fourth fret, and [F] the fifth.
[Bb] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [Am]
But we [Ab] stop right there and shift back to the second [A] string
and pick it up.
_ [C] _
[Bb] _ Then we do this little walk-up that goes like this.
[C] [E] And what I'm doing there is I'm taking the fifth fret [A] of the second string,
going to the third fret of the [C] first,
[G] to the fifth fret of the first,
hitting it again and sliding up to the seventh fret.
[F] So it [Bb]
[Am] goes_
You might want to do just [Dm] that [Am] over and over again
until you [C] have that memorized.
[E]
Then you do this little figure.
[Em] _ And what I'm doing there is first string, seventh fret,
[Gm] _ twice, fifth fret,
[Eb] then I shift over to the second [B] string, seventh fret,
[E] back to the first string, seventh fret.
So this ring finger's got to move from the first string
to the second string and then back.
And when you do that, remember,
your right-hand thumb has got to shift with it.
So it goes_
[Em] _ _ _
Then shift the hand down two frets,
[Fm] and go_
[A] [G] I'm going 5-5 [F]-3-5.
Then [E] we go back to our little first riff that we learned,
[A] _ [Em] _
and then go to [E] an E7 chord,
stroke it five times. _
That's the turnaround chord,
meaning we turn around and go back to [Ab] the beginning,
and it starts all over [A] again.
[Em] _ _
[A] _ [C] _ [A] _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [Bb] _ [Am] _
[C] So forth.
Now, there's two little walk-up patterns
that I want to show you that I do.
[Gb] I [Ab] go_
[N] That's not in the PDF file.
So you might want to see how I do that in the performance,
compare that to the little PDF.
The other thing, too, is that shift back
from the first string to the second string
before the first part of that riff is finished
is not quite the same on the PDF.
So have the two side by side,
the PDF and the U2 performance,
and just compare the two.
It's fun to do lead patterns on the uke.
It's a departure from just playing chords,
and it'll lead to other things
that you never thought possible with ukulele.
So have fun with it.
I'll wipe out a little bit later on.
I'm going to put down a pipeline
and a few other of the Ventures tunes
for my arrangements for ukulele.
I'll be doing videos on those during the summer.
So be looking forward to those,
and happy strumming and have fun.
[A] _ _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _