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

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.

By: Hals

Hals — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:33:12 +0000

You are amazing! Got a uke for Christmas and I’m obsessed. This website offers everything. I love your selection of music and this tabs tutorial helped immensely!

By: Bradlee

Bradlee — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:42:25 +0000

thank you for the clarification and thanks for the website it is awesome to have found such a great place to learn from have a happy holidays

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:09:05 +0000

Bradlee: That’s the bar number. Don’t worry about it. They’re mostly just to make it easy to refer to a specific part of the music.

By: Bradlee

Bradlee — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:01:41 +0000

in the example tabs what does the 1 above the 2 4′s mean

By: Ailsa

Ailsa — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:46:48 +0000

Im finding the tabs/strumming patterns really easy to follow but alas my playing hasnt really improved ah well practise practise. I cant sing for quids so Im going to have to get hubby in on the singing bit – but then he’d want to play as well & that would mean I wouldnt get a turn on the ukuele at all

By: Sahds

Sahds — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:23:25 +0000

Thanks for taking the time out to write this. I was just looking at the chord songs, tabs looked too scary. But now that I have seen this, it’s not at all that bad. Means I can now branch out when looking for songs to cover :)