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thank you!

Yes, we ended up cutting a waltz arrangement that I put out on SoundCloud here - soundcloud.com/layersofmeta/who-loves-the-sun-1

(and that is now the first finished track of an album of otherwise original tunes that is still in demo form here: soundcloud.com/layersofmeta/sets/untitled-1 )

thanks! I have a lot of videos from the past few years I put straight on facebook and forgot to post over here, so I will gradually get at least the good ones out

verses: G C G (G) G C D (D) G C Em Am G D G (G) chorus: G (G) D (D) D7 (D7) G (G) G G7 C C7 G D G (G)

Kelsey Brennan hi! that is an interesting challenge. a lot of what i’m doing is improvising on the changes but i could probably work out a tab for at least the basics of what i’m doing there. if you can handle the chords (and the hardest one is an Em) and practice arpeggiating them, that will start giving you the basic feel. let me see what i can come up with (challenge accepted!)

oh my gosh right on! I would appreciate it a lot!!

Vineeth Thomas for sure! it’s big fun

Eleanor D thanks!

Eleanor D hey i learned to play it a bit better after this take. some of the later vids are probably better for getting a feel, like i worked out how to play the main lick that ends most lines and it's very easy up at the neck of the uke. and thanks! :)

Alan Thornton thank you very kindly!

thanks! any requests? :)

thanks! catching up on this. starting the see the appeal of a community. so great to hear from fellow travelers. the subtitle of my arrangement of this could be "dealing with that darned E chord" since the accent notes are both from the chord and I've never mastered the flat-knuckle ("A shape" from guitar") barred chord. the whole thing kind of emerged from a workaround, to support a mostly vocal approach i guess, but it does find it's own back porch bluesy feel at times i think

isn't it a great song? wonderful lyrics and both fun and frankly pretty easy to sing!

thanks. that was a happy (?) accident ... my main goal was to try to show as well as possible what i'm doing... it all still sounds really sloppy and hesitant to me but for that song it doesn't seem to matter so much?

thank you very kindly

I couldn't stop if I tried

Christian Crumlish right on!

Musician WilliamLK very kind of you, especially given the clams and false starts! i think it has potential...

Great song choice! Love this.

thanks, mang. this was one of the first i ever attempted and some of my earliest raw/bad/shameless recordings posted on my blog are attempts to play this. i decided to revisit it recently and it's all coming back to me. a child could do it. a child could do it!

Excellent choice! Songbirds in the background match the animal theme. Did you pick out the chords yourself?

pick them out? how so? I just followed the arrangement i learned like ten years ago when this was one of the first songs i taught myself. it's basically G G7 C C7 G D D7 (x3) and then G G7 C C7 D C G (I think) at the end. I've seen other chords there with A and D mainly but these ones sounds right and match the recording (I've played them over Syd's version). I play a C note at the "oh yeah" part but I don't think Syd does-- he just sings it. The birds did sort of fit themselves in nicely!

Wowza.

smiling.

Wow. Thoroughly impressed.

gee, thanks! I wish I had stumbled on this arrangement earlier, because any beginner could pull it off!

Bum bum bum!

or as some say, bing bang bong but I really have to get the bridge down... funny how playing and singing together without stopping can be so hard!

I watched you playing this last night before bed, then woke up singing it to the family. A welcome earworm!

it has yet to get old for me!

nice, brother!