Now put this explanation together with the chord chart,Īnd you suddenly have all the chords you could ever need! If you look closely at this picture, then using the chord from the chart, you will see that I am making an A7 on myīaritone uke. Very often I play my blues using the same chord form throughout the whole song.just moving toĭifferent frets on the neck. As with everything else about playing the ukulele, there are many ways to go about making the bar chord. To make the Bm, you're making the Am at the 4th fret space with your ring finger, UNDER the finger bar. I hope I explained it good enough for you. Similarly, to make the B7, you're making an A7 at the 3rd fret space with your middle finger, UNDER the finger bar. Move up a fret and you'll have a D#m, up another fret for aĮm, up another for an Fm, and so on. However, underneath the surface of simple chords and happy tunes lies a vast musical world. ![]() Its basic chord shapes allow new players to start playing songs in minutes. Using this concept for example, you could make a Dm open chord with your index finger behind the nut. In addition to its infectiously happy tone, much of the appeal of playing the ukulele lies in its simplicity. Chords will always go in the same order, round and round no matter where you start. Simply start at the nutĪnd go a fret at a time. I still use this method to find bar chords. So how do you know what chords your making? It's very simple, and that's why I told you to start with yourįinger behind the nut, and make any chord you know with your other three fingers, and then go up the neck. ![]() Goes on for every fret all the way up the fret board until you run out of fret board! Now just slide everything up another fret for another whole new chord! The third picture would be a F# on a baritone uke or a B on a smaller uke. Now for the gravy.just slide everything up one fret for a whole new chord! The second picture would be an F on a baritone uke or a A# (orīb) on a smaller uke. It is the same as an A chord on a smaller sized uke. For the example in the picture, I am using an E chord (baritone uke). Now you can make any open chord you know with your remaining Simply start by placing your index finger acrossĪll the strings behind the nut (the nut is the plastic thingy that is slotted and the strings go through it). To understand the concept we will start with the first picture. On in my brain and the whole glorious fret board became total freedom! Not only that, once you grasp the is EASY!!! Then one wonderfull day, a friend of mine explained in very simple terms, how "bar" chords work. In case you don't know, "open" chords are chords you play near the tuner end of the fret board, and usually have at least one or more string without Remember that the root is on the C string. It is the third shape on the page that I gave you. I also remember when I first started learning to play, trying to remember all those darn "open" chords was veryĬonfusing. Practice the new 'closed' chord shape using it for the F chord. ![]() I thought that it looked very complicated, and IĬould never understand what they were doing. I remember watching guitarists on TV, and they were playing all up and down the whole neck. To my mind there's no point learning to run before you can walk so the barre chords should be left until you're no longer a beginner.If I can understand Bar Chords, ANYONE can!!! I'd leave the moveable F chord and barre (another way to play a G chord, and higher ones up the neck) alone for now too. Of course YMMV but I suggest that you too will find it better to keep things simple and reliable by using the 'standard' three fingers for now. I've a good idea of what I'm not always doing correctly and barre chords are still work in progress for me - some things in Uke playing take a lot of time to get consistently right.Įarly on in learning I too noticed that the G chord could be played with just two fingers but I find that (for me now) it's normally quicker and more reliable to use three. I used to find the Bb chord impossible but four out of five times it's fine for me now, practice and looking at what's happening (or not) helps. I suspect that, like a lot of other things, it's easy when you know how and a puzzle of imperfect results until then. In my limited experience beginners typically find 'Barre Chords' to be difficult if not impossible to do effectively, I've found that mine have improved with practice, observation (part of which is to individually check that each string rings) and a well set up Uke. I'm not an expert (just been playing a couple of years or so and learning all the time) but I find that there can often be more than one way to achieve the same thing and that some things work better for some folks than others.
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