Question

How to play the important chords in an ukulele

Answer 1

When you are just starting out with playing the ukulele it can be quite overwhelming, especially if it’s your first instrument ever. Difficult chord diagrams, painful fingers, strumming, feeling the rhythm, tablatures, etc… There are dozens of chords and hundreds of ways to play them (see all of them on UkuChords). While the UkuChords chords charts already shows you the easiest way to play all of the “main chords” (180 in total), it can be slimmed down quite a bit more.

Major Chords
Everything starts with the seven major chords: A B C D E F G (= La Ti Do Re Mi Fa Sol). The most important ones in this list are A C D E F and G. So basically all of them except the B chord. The B isn’t used that much luckily, because it isn’t that easy to play either. Another chord that isn’t easy to play is the E chord, unfortunately this one is used in quite a lot of songs. That’s why I’ve written a dedicated guide for this E chord. Help on how to play the ‘horrific’ E chord can be found right here.