Ukulele Chord Windows

Playing chords on the ukulele is much alike that of a guitar. The main difference being the guitar has 6 strings and the ukulele only has 4. So when we are reading our ukulele chord windows there will only be 4 vertical lines that represent each string. You can see the difference between both below:

As ukuleles are much smaller than guitars and there strings and frets are closer together. It's important to be really careful to just use the tip of each finger when pushing down each fret of the chord you're playing, and furthermore be sure not to touch any other strings.

Follow along with this online tutorial below which will give you a good visual description of how to read ukulele chord windows:

Below is a bunch of commonly used chords on the ukulele. Give each of them a go:

If you're still a tad stuck at trying to read the chord windows, click on the link below and it'll take you to a more comprehensive page with each chord window broken down: