Another Brick in the Wall

Dave (who I hereby nominate as Musical Director of Brookings County Uke) has arranged for us the Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall for ukulele, in three parts. Here's Dave:

Well, I’ve created some parts to Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall”. Not the whole song, only a single verse that could easily be repeated to include the following verse. It’s probably not so much a sing-a-long as it is an instrumental thing. It’s about a minute and 30 seconds total.

I broke the song into 3 parts, which with a little thought could probably be improved on quite a bit. I’ve called the parts rhythm, lead, and bass, roughly corresponding to those parts in the original song. The bass part would probably be considered the easiest, It’s single note picking, no chords. The rhythm part would be considered medium difficulty, easy chords but the strum pattern might be slightly difficult at first and can be a little tough to keep going for the duration. The lead part is pretty easy for most of the song except for the end where it gets a little challenging

Rhythm – this part is very repetitive, only 2 different strumming patterns used through the whole song. 4 chords are used, Dm, G, F, and C, all pretty easy chords

Lead – this part mimics the vocal line and a guitar lead.

Bass – this part mimics the bass line and kind of takes turns with the lead part in the vocal section of the song.

He's provided music in tab notation and MP3 files of each part, as well as an MP3 of the whole thing. The individual MP3 files include a metronome click and are well-suited for practice.

Bass tab
Rhythm tab
Lead tab
Bass MP3
Rhythm MP3
Lead MP3
All parts MP3

Dave again:

I’m kind of hoping everyone will pick a part and we can attempt to play it all together at the next meeting. If people want to try different parts, I’ll be happy to switch around and play any part needed.

I’d like the group to give me feedback as to if they like this kind of thing, what they found useful or helpful, what they found useless or annoying, etc. Let me know where I’m on track and where I am not.

So have at it. We meet in three weeks; this'll give you something to practice.

I can see that by comparison the two-part arrangement I've been working on needs a little polish. Or a lot of polish. Look for it in the next few days. It may be a little easier to play than this one, but won't sound as good! How's that for a promise?