Comments on: Ukulele 101: How To Read Ukulele Tab Part 1

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:24:33 +0000

Geumtian: Glad it’s still useful!

By: Geumtian

Geumtian — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 08:22:30 +0000

i know you wrote this so long ago but, it has helped so much! using what’s on this page just looked up the riffs for smoke on the water. hahah loving it.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:30:21 +0000

Hannah: Glad it helped.

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:37:18 +0000

This really clears things up! Thank you so much!

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:47:08 +0000

Laura: If you play the strings open (i.e. not fretting them at all) you’ll get the notes G C E A.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:24:41 +0000

Hi, I am preparing to get a uke on Monday, as my school are opening a ukulele club. Are the strings that you pluck with (from one nearest to you) G C E A, to play those notes do you just pluck that string. Or do you push down the first fret.

By: Shelagh

Shelagh — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:59:40 +0000

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you!

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:37:50 +0000

Shelagh: No such thing as a stupid question.

The Dm refers to the chord played in the background and the 2 is the melody note. It’s probably intended to be played by two ukes: one doing the chords and one doing the melody.

By: Shelagh

Shelagh — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:23:52 +0000

I’m going to have to ask a stupid question because just typing it into Google isn’t solving it for me. What do you play if say, the tab shows a 2 on the 3rd string but just above it it says “Dm”. I thought Dm involved the 4th, 3rd & 2nd strings so why does it only say 2 on the 3rd?

That might not make sense but my brain is just not working.

PS. I love this site. Just got a ukulele the other day and this site has been more help than the book I got with it – and it’s much more interesting!

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:51:18 +0000

Hals: Thanks very much! Glad you’re finding it useful.