Eye Know - De La Soul - Ukulele cover

MP3 version here for a while: http://tinyurl.com/yjuxtpw

I'll provide mobile phone ringtones for anyone who's interested!

I bought this album new in 1989 (£5.99!) and picked this particular track because I thought I might get two birds with one stone: Eye Know by De La Soul and Peg by Steely Dan - the main sample on which the De La Soul version is based. The lyrics are harder in Eye Know; the chords are harder in Peg.

I ended up layering this in Audacity. It gave me the opportunity to embellish it a bit but it means the video is supplementary. It also gave me the opportunity to whistle again. Roger Whittaker need not be concerned.

Once again, performed on £18 worth of Mahalo.

I have posted details of changes I have made to the setup of my u30 here: http://tinyurl.com/ncpuqb

[This was my entry for Seeso's Hip-Hop Ukulele Video Contest at http://www.ukuleleunderground.com.]

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Music

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• Eye
• Know
• De
• La
• Soul
• unlikely
• Ukulele
• uke
• cover
• hip
• hop
• cheap
• Mahalo
• U30
• U-30
• three
• feet
• high
• and
• rising
• Edinburgh
• Scotland
• Scottish
• Soprano
• hip-hop

[robotxhuman]

chords plz? D:

[OriginalGreeno]

repeated Cmaj7 (0002) and G (0232) - with an occasional extra pinkie on the A string, 5th fret

[princessandgoblin]

i keep coming back to this video- I really love it.

[OriginalGreeno]

Thanks!

[OriginalGreeno]

that seems the most likely explanation

[93hot82]

great job love it ........

[EazEYouRMinD420]

simply awesome

[pushyoureyesin]

You are one cool dude.

[davidmangisel]

well played!

chords & strum pattern?

[davidmangisel]

great job!

chords & strum pattern?

[74blove]

Ay bruh as an African American I got respect for you bruh. Dis my first time hear this and I just want to say u hit dat shit. Like if u agree

[kpankh07]

Awesome.

[classichiphop44]

play this at my funeral? i want to get that request in now while i have a chance

[dboyoioi]

@blowbags2008 i have definitely been called too negative, and i am probably biased by deep love of de la soul. i think the music sounds awesome, but his voice has absolutely no "flowing" to it the way the original does. thats what i was trying to say. to me it sounds like hes reading a list, not flowin'. check out the bouncing souls covering sick of it all's "good lookin out". great ukelele tune