All Critters of ...

We have just changed wards, and it is fun getting to know the new folks here, and one pleasant lady performed a beautiful version of All Creatures of Our God and King.  So I was inspired (no, not literally inspired like angels, and visions, and what not) to transcribed that song to Uke tablature. 

So this is like three days in a row with new songs posted on here....what is this, like a professional blogger's blog or something?  Man, I am putting a lot of social media pressure on the readers to come here more often to get updates!  I am so sorry to you all for that! 

Not to worry, the chances of this rate of songs continuing (ie...1 new song per day) is below zero.  It may be years before I post again.


All Creatures of Our God and King

thanks
brad

Sweet Hour

I just did Sweet Hour of Prayer.  Hope it works. It was a pretty easy file to transcribe, as I only had 1 formatting error after coding the whole thing out!  Imagine that!  I gave myself a high five.  Usually, I have to laboriously scrutinize each note/chord/word to make it all format well.

Let me know of any errors in the file. My printer printed it without the title, so it may be formatted not so Sweetly.

Sweet Hour of Prayer


-brad

"Unknown" Request

Abide With Me; 'Tis Eventide

Some kind soul requested Hymn 165 while I was in the process of moving.  They left the request anonymously, so I have no way of thanking them, or sending it to them, but here it is. 

I guess it is sort of appropriate in that I have switched homes and in a new place we would want the Savior to abide with us.  If you read it in the context of having just moved, it has some new meaning!

Thanks to Mr or Mrs "Unknown" for requesting this song, and may He abide in us always!

Abide with Me Tis Eventide


-brad

Memorial Day

Thanks to all the current and past vets!  We appreciate you.

The patriotic songs in the hymn book are pretty straight forward, but the our National Anthem has a few hairy spots.  There are a bunch of low-A's and millions of flats.  Also, some of the ties and slurs dont go well cause the composers of that piece, didnt really do a great job of matching words to chords/notes. 

It is as close as I could get it, but not perfect.

My Country, 'Tis of Thee
The Star Spangled Banner
America the Beautiful

Hope all goes well. 

Love America! I even decorated this post with an American Flag.  I am getting pretty fancy here!  I know, I know....I should stop, this blog is pretty frilly as it is with all that plain white background and black text and what not.

-brad

Two More Requests from Tiffany

Thanks to Tiffany for requesting the following songs. They are quick and simple, and despite that, it still took me a few weeks to get them done.  Well, I should say, it took a half hour or so, but it took two weeks to get started.  Well, here is to finally having them done! Come Follow Me has a few C#'s that cant be played, but other than that, it is a pretty good transcription.


Come Follow Me
Jesus the Very Thought of Thee

Jesus the Very Thought of Thee, reminds me of my mission. My third companion, who was a rock star, had a CD of Michael Mclean?...maybe, it could have been someone else....John Bytheway? (does he even sing?) and the CD contained a rendition of Jesus the Very Thought of Thee.  I am fairly certain that the artist performed the songs very mellowly and a capella, but I don't hold me to that, cause it has been a few years since my mission.  Hence, we used CDs and not MP3s.

Happy Memorial Day tomorrow.  Hug a Vet.

-brad 

General Conference

What conference means to me:  A weekend without having to leave the house.  Sitting around in my pajamas and watching church.  I think we should consider weekly church broadcasts with an iPhone app or something.

Have fun trying these prophet songs.

Come Listen to a Prophets Voice
Come Come Ye Saints
We Thank Thee Oh God for a Prophet


Brad

Happy Easter

After 4 different egg hunts, and plenty of delicious ham, we can all sit back, loosen our belts and pick some wonderful Easter hymns.

My testimony of the resurrection and atonement were increased this weekend because we had nice sunny weather to enjoy our Easter egg hunts.  3 wonderfully sunny and warm days were sent down from heaven to contrast to usually dreary gray soaking wet landscape here in the Pacific Northwest. Thanks to HF for the awesome weather and the proof that he loves me: I didnt have to stand in the rain to watch my kids search for tiny plastic eggs filled with candy we would throw away 2 days later.

Christ the Lord is Risen Today
He Is Risen
Jesus Once of Humble Birth

Also, if you havent seen Jim Gaffigan, he has a great (clean too) stand up comedy skit for our funny holiday traditions (ie...bunny rabbit, eggs, and baskets to celebrate the resurrection ... who came up with that?).  Maybe you can YouTube it our something.