Ukulele Chords: Learn To Play Easy Chord Changes
It is very fun and mostly easy to play ukulele chords. Let’s take a look at some easy chord changes! Before we delve to deeply into our ukulele chords let’s take a look at the tuning of your ukulele. The resulting names of the chords we play depends on how we tune the ukulele. In this ukulele lesson I assume that you play a soprano ukulele and that you have tuned it in C. What does C-tuning mean? Let’s take a look at the piano keyboard to find out how to tune the ukulele. C-tuning means that the third string on you ukulele is tuned to a C. If you use a piano when you tune your ukulele you will find these notes in the octave in the middle of the keyboard. The notes in this most commonly used octave on the piano are called C4-B4. The number 4 indicate t guitar lessons hat the notes are on the fourth octave on an ordinary piano. The first string on your ukulele will be tuned to an A4 as we call it. The next string will sound like the piano key E4. The third string will be the note C4. The fourth string will be the note G4. Our first chord is C major. Let’s take a look at it: C: 0/4 0/3 0/2 3/1 What type of notation is this? This is a type of ukulele tab notation where we use numbers to indicate which fret to press down and on which string. 3/1 for example means: Press down fret 3 on string 1. We will now proceed with the chord G major: G: 0/4 2/3 3/2 2/1 As you can see this chord is the same chord as a D major on a guitar. A little bit confusing if you also play guitar but I guess you will get used to it.