World Guitar : Guitar Chords

by Brett McQueen

As you may have already seen, we’ve been working on building up a ukulele chord library, with hundreds of chords in several different variations. But, as a newer or beginner ukulele player, which ones do you really need to know?
We’ll be looking at the most essential and common ukulele chords. All these chords are in the first position, or first variation, meaning that these chords are located between the first five frets. The frets are the vertical edges that lay across the fretboard.
Here are the eleven must-know ukulele chords for beginners ordered from easiest to hardest to play. Click on any one of the pictures to see it in our chord library.

C major

Suggested fingering: Use your ring finger on the 3rd fret of the bottom string.

A minor

Suggested fingering: Use your middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top string.

F major

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 1st fret of the second string and your ring finger on the 2nd fret of the top string.

G major

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 2nd fret of the third string, ring finger on the 3rd fret of the second string, and your middle finger on the 2nd fret of the bottom string.

A major

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 1st fret of the third string and your middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top string.

E minor

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 2nd fret of the bottom string and your ring finger on the 4th fret of the third string.

D minor

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 1st fret of the second string, middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top string, and your ring finger on the 2nd fret of the third string.

F#/Gb minor

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 1st fret of the third string, middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top string, and your ring finger on the 2nd fret of the second string.

D major

Suggested fingering: Use your middle finger on the 2nd fret of the top string, ring finger on the 2nd fret of the third string, and your pinky on the 2nd fret of the second string.

E major

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger on the 1st fret of the top string, middle finger on the 2nd fret of the bottom string, and your pinky on the 4th fret of the third string.

B minor

Suggested fingering: Use your index finger to bar the bottom three strings on the 2nd fret and your ring finger on the 4th fret of the top string.

Questions & Comments

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If you want to learn to play the guitar fast, you're going to have to learn guitar chords fast. Chords are the fundamental building blocks of guitar playing. There are ways to learn guitar chords fast and here are a few examples of how to do just that.

The first thing you must realize if you want to learn guitar chords fast, is that your hand is going to be asked to do a lot of odd positions that it just is not used to doing. You are going to go through a period of muscle building in your fingers, palm and wrist. This building period will be difficult, and may take a while. Also, be ready for some fingertip pain as you build calluses from the strings.

Secondly, to learn guitar chords fast, I suggest you learn barre chords quickly. A barre chord is nothing more than an open chord moved up the neck, becoming a differently named chord each time it is moved. For example, if you take an E chord, move the whole chord up one fret, then use your index finger to press the string down on the first fret, you'll change the E chord to an F chord.

Move up 3 frets, and you have a G chord. This method of playing chords is mostly used with an E or A chord.
Third, get a guitar chord chart. These handy guides will show you all the chords in all positions. An open A chord will sound different than an A barre chord. It's useful to begin to hear the differences between the same chords played in different positions.
If you can learn guitar chords fast, you'll be able to play songs faster, making learning the guitar more enjoyable much quicker.

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