Big Yellow Taxi (by Joni Mitchell) ukulele cover (improved)

[59dday]

could you please please make a tutorial for this song? Thanks

[SisterShasha]

nice.

[floydbluethereal]

@SisterShasha Thanks a lot!

[pushingdaisies4evr]

2 questions-

did you use a capo?

what are the chords with your adjustments?

it sounds amazing!

[floydbluethereal]

@pushingdaisies4evr Thanks a lot! I now play it on a soprano ukulele tuned in open re-entrant Eb (Bb Eb G Bb). For this recording I used a tenor uke in open re-entrant C tuning (G C E G) and put a capo in the third position. So it is an open Eb tuning. The chords are Eb (open), Ab (barré 5th fret) and Bb (barré 7th fret) and some variants with 6th, 7th and sus4. The uke you see in the video is not the uke I played for the audio recording. I thought a yellow uke was good for the show...

[Katiekatify]

Thats cool. I never tried de-tuning the uke before! I think you can also play the song in open D...at least on guitar...

[floydbluethereal]

@Katiekatify open D is also fine on the uke. I used to play it on the guitar years ago. I did it in Eb, 'cause it's the perfect key for me to sing. I have one uke always tuned in open Eb, as I do some blues stuff with a slide. The string action is also a bit higher in open Eb, that's better for sliding.

[Katiekatify]

This is great. I love uke!

[floydbluethereal]

@Katiekatify Thank you very much! I play it in open Eb, btw... ;)

[puffin312]

really nice :)

[floydbluethereal]

@puffin312 Thanks a lot! Unfortunately YT killed the sound...

[electricragtime]

This has to be one of the best vids on youtube ...I love this....thanks for posting

[floydbluethereal]

Thank you very much and thanks for your sub!

[Goschenhobel]

Excellent!

I love yellow ukuleles... :)

[floydbluethereal]

Thanks Mr. Goschenhobel! And I appriciate being chauffeured in yellow cars! ;)

[HauoliHaole]

Nice one, floydblue!

Flashy video - how did you do that?

[floydbluethereal]

Thanks! Haole!

It's a comic filter thingy in virtual dub.

The video is'nt synchroized to the sound, 'cause I cheated. As I played the song on the cheap yellow Mahalo uke, It was totally crap. So I played it on a differenet uke and put the sound of the new recording to the vid. And to make it a bit better fitting I just used this comic filter.

You know, I needed this yellow uke on the video.

[HauoliHaole]

Thanks, floydblue,

I will check that thingy out. Virtual dub only works with avi, right?

Yep - yellow taxi, yellow uke. Way to go.

Yellow fingernails, if a girl played it ;)

[monsterbazz]

great interpretation!!! i love this song and your version is truly charming. 5stars for you!

[floydbluethereal]

Thank you very much, monsterbazz!

[keonepax]

Great rendition! Love the comic book look!

[floydbluethereal]

Thanks keonepax! The comic book look is a video filter in virtual dub. I used it because of my few skills in doing videos.

[sami3M]

You've got a lovely voice and good rhythm, I really enjoyed this 5*

P.S: thank you for your comment on my video; it means a lot.

[floydbluethereal]

Thank you, sami3M! This means a lot to me.

[TheCoffeeJunkee]

excellent version....I like your vocals!

[floydbluethereal]

Thank you! I don't hear that very often.

[rdevicsaint]

Great version!!, Love your vocals. Cool video effects. I'm starting to believe everything sounds better on Ukulele. Chris

[floydbluethereal]

That's nice! Thank you. A lot of tunes sound better on ukulele. But really everything sounds best on ukulele and bass...;)

[uke5417]

You give Mitchell's 12 strings a run for the money with your 4.

[floydbluethereal]

Thanks!

[oerligaat]

Gefällt mir richtig gut!! :)

[floydbluethereal]

Hallo Thomas, danke schön.

[fourteentwelve]

This is a lovely recording, and great video effect! Your voice is perfect for this one. I liked it a lot.

[floydbluethereal]

Thank you fourteentwelve!

[MoTomorrow]

Floyd, super!

[floydbluethereal]

Danke schön!

[worschd21]

spitze, klingt gut!

[floydbluethereal]

Danke Christoph!

[russbuss415]

great recording! very nice.

[floydbluethereal]

thanks russbuss!

[deach69]

Very nice!  I do like this version better.

[floydbluethereal]

Yeah, I like it better too. Thank you Deach!

[hoosierhiver]

good one, I like the watercolor effects too.

[floydbluethereal]

Thank you, hoosierhiver! The watercolour effect is a comic filter in virtual dub.

[unclejeff64]

good one floyd!

[floydbluethereal]

Thanks Jeff!