Live ‘Ukulele

Knowing your ‘ukulele chords is a vital part to becoming a good player. Here are some good resources for learning new and/or unique chords.

Chord Sheets

• Major
• Major 6th
• Major 7th
• Minor
• Minor 6th
• Minor 7-5
• Dominant 7th
• Dominant 9th
• Suspended 7th

Books

It is great to have a extensive chord book lying around so that next time you need to find a new voicing or Bb11b5 you have a place to look. These are the two books we use:

Roy Sakuma’s Treasury of ‘Ukulele Chords shows four voicings of each chord: Major, Minor, 7th, min7th, 6th, Maj7th, min6th, 9th, sus7th, min7-9, 7b9, 6/9, 7+5, 7-5, dim7th, Aug, Maj9th, Majsus, 7+9, 13th, 13b9, and add9.

Hal Leonard ‘Ukulele Chord Finder 1,000 chord diagrams, 28 chord types with three voicings for each chord.

Web Sites

Here are some web sites that you find ‘ukulele chords on:

Brian’s Huge Chord Collection

Chord House - is a guitar oriented site, so just use the arrows to the left to adjust the tuning and use the top four stings to find chords and scales

EZ Folk

Gootar

Sheep Entertainment

4 String Chords

Other Chord Resources

Blank Chord Sheet

Train Horn Chords - good chords to know in case you are ever asked to play Ka’a Ahi Kahului - or some other train song - with someone.