Comments on: How To Read Ukulele Chord Charts

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:12:45 +0000

Kevin: Hope you enjoy it.

By: Kevin Lloyd

Kevin Lloyd — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:54:59 +0000

I’ve just ordered a Lanikai LU-11 Soprano, finding this site very useful. Can’t wait to get it and try some stuff out.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:12:27 +0000

?m: Some people tune their ukes ADF#B, but GCEA is more common and it’s the main one I use on this site.

By: ?m

?m — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:48:26 +0000

i thought that the strings were A, D,F# and B?
so how come the left one is G?
can somebody please help me?

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:17:59 +0000

Thanks for that, Gerry. Useful stuff.

By: Gerry Long

Gerry Long — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:36:34 +0000

Answer to Jen Ritz’ question.

Jen: The answer is, the word above which the chord is found is the place where the chord begins. And you strum that chord until the music indicates another chord symbol or tab. Than you change to that symbol or tab.

The answer to your “strum” question is a totally different thing. Strumming refers to style, and you must strum with whatever style you are intending to play, be it swing, rock, Latin, blues, etc.

Unfortunately most uke groups strum constantly in a “swing” style, because so much of our music, including much of our best know Hawaiian tunes are played in that style.

I hope this helps.

Gerry

By: Jen Ritz

Jen Ritz — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:16:43 +0000

can anyone explain to me how you read the chords when they have the lyrics to the song and the chord over the words? how do you read it? do you just strum on the word that the chord is over? what kind of strum? thanks

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:33:45 +0000

Min: I think Andy’s right, those white notes are other notes that in the chord. You can play those instead of the black notes without changing the chord.

And don’t worry about what me and zym were going on about. We were just playing silly-buggers.

Elijah: Thanks for the suggestion.

By: Elijah Wilbury

Elijah Wilbury — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:19:55 +0000

Zym - I use the Hal Leonard Ukulele Chord Finder book. It is fairly comprehensive and includes 3 fingerings for each chord covered in the book. And it is small enough to fit in my uke case :)

By: zym

zym — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:04:26 +0000

Mike,

i think the white ‘notes’ are the second position for the chord. Im guessing that the are only shown where the second position is actually easier than the first.

So on the Dm7 you could just barre the 4th fret rather than fiddle around for the 1st postion chord.