Two Songs I Used to Like

I went to Paraguay during my mission, and they loved to sing, "The Spirit of God," however, instead of uptempo and fast like it should be sung (sang? past tense of sing is singed? sang? sung? had been sunging?), they sang it like 45 beats per minute, and it took about a half hour to sing the whole thing.  It was tedious at best.  Then, they also sang, wait, no, sung ... hold up, sanged ... aww screw it ... Then they also PERFORMED it every other week, so it kinda lost its flavor to me. Before my mission I really enjoyed the song, then afterwards, ehhh, not so much!

Since returning stateside many years ago, it has regained some of its flavor, but still has not returned to its former glory in my mind. 

That being said, someone requested it yesterday and so I thought I would transcribe it.  Here it is.

The Spirit of God

Also, in the same spirit of , "I sang it too much on my mission and therefore wasn't quite as cool as it once was," I present, "Called to Serve."  a.k.a, the missionary theme song.

There are some low b's and some c's coupled with e flats that cannot be played on the uke with normal tuning ( i think it is called re-entrant tuning? - someone correct me if i am wrong)

Here is Called to Serve

Thanks to all for requests.  I may not get to them as quick as I did for Mr. Beckstead. ps ... I think there is a Beckstead in my Tacoma, WA stake, are you the same?

-Brad

Christmas Songs I Engraved in November and Never Posted Because I Didnt Think Anyone Cared

Here are my favorite Hymns and Children's Songbook Christmas songs.  I printed them all and never uploaded them to Google Drive for sharing. I did not think anyone ever downloads these songs, but apparently, people are visiting the blog, so here they are!

Happy pickin'

Angels We Have Heard on High
Away in a Manger
Far Far Away on Judea's Plain
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
Once in Royal David's City
Picture a Christmas (not great as low B is used a bunch)
Silent Night
Stars Were Gleaming
The First Noel
The First Noel - Alternate Chorus

Again, please tell me if any links are busted, or if any songs have errors in them, and I will try to correct them.


-brad

Father's Day

Here are songs for Father's Day I transcribed back in June.  Enjoy!

The Dearest Names
Quickly I'll Obey
Love is Spoken Here


-Brad

First Request

So, a nice person requested a song, and I actually was able to transcribe it to Uke tab with a fairly rapid turn around time.  Thanks Rosa Rosa.  Let me know if this is unsatisfactory in any manner.

I am still trying to find a way to print the fretboards for each song at the bottom of the sheet music, but I am not having much luck.

Neither were the 49ers tonight. Too bad.

thanks
brad

Tell Me the Stories of Jesus

Mother's Day

If there is a ward in the history of the church that does not allow the primary kids to go up to the podium and sing a song for Mother's Day then I am fairly certain they are not following all of the official instructions of the church.  It is essentially universal that the primary sings for the mom's on Mother's Day.

That being said, we were on vacation for mom's big day and our kids were not at their home ward.  We still convinced our oldest to get up on stage and sing with a brand new primary group, but our middle child was too shy.

So, despite not singing the song they had practiced, we sang and played the uke versions, which, with our poor singing, did nothing to make up for the lost experience.  It is quite fun to watch the primary sing to the moms.  Well, some of the kids are singing, some are picking their noses, hiding, or just staring blankly into the congregation with.

I Often Go Walking
Mother Tell Me the Story
Mother I Love You
Mother Dear
Love is Spoken Here


-Brad

Going to Vegas

This week my wife, three daughters, and I will be heading to sunny warm Las Vegas staying in a timeshare type condo with heated pools and nothing to do!  We plan on doing some hikes maybe visiting family in St George, but mostly, sitting on our behinds and being lazy. 

So, to honor our trip to the city where all your dreams come true, I present, "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief."  While the song is about helping others and when we help others it is as if we are helping God, I am very very very loosely interpreting the title because if I gamble, I will become poor, and then my wife will not love me as much (girls dont love boys, girls love cars and money...right?), which will cause me such grief, resulting in me wayfaring about with a giganormous beard pushing a shopping cart.

A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief

Favorite Hymn

My favorite hymn: Although not in the current hymn book.

Everybody probably already knows which hymn I am talking about: Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing.  It was taken out of the 1985 version of the Hymn book, but is a super popular hymn since BYU and MOTAB have done amazing renditions of it (you know, that 80's video of the lady crying while singing...with like gallons of tears flowing out her eyes).  I transferred it to Uke tablature and it sounds good too.  It is not too difficult to play.  Enjoy!

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

-Brad