![]() So you’ve decided to pick up the ukulele and start learning some of your favorite songs with this small four stringed instrument. To wrap up, here are the key takeaways from this guide to ukulele chords:.Reading ukulele chord diagrams and chord charts.If you have any questions on the D chord please let me know in the comments. Hopefully you found this useful and maybe even learned a thing or two. You’ll be able to choose chords to play that work for the piece of music that you’re playing and you’ll start to understand the makeup of the chords too which is a very useful thing to know. Getting to know a few inversions for each chord will really help improve you as a player as well as improving your knowledge of musical theory. The eagle eyed among you will be thinking ’that looks exactly like an A chord shifted 5 frets up’ and you’d be right.Īgain, it will sound a little different because this time we have two high D notes in our chord rather than two Ds an octave apart in the previous inversion. This time we’re going to be barring across fret 5 and using our second and third fingers to help out. Horses for courses as they say but sometimes this inversion works a little better than the open chord and vice versa. ![]() So now the highest note in our chord is D and you can hear that note ring out when we strum the chord. In this inversion we’re losing the second A note and replacing it with a higher D note. One on the G string at fret 2 and another on our open A string. In our open D chord at the top of this page our chord had two A notes in it. You should be able to hear a slight difference from our open D chord and that’s because this version is constructed a little differently. To play this inversion we’re going to bar across fret 2 with our first finger and use our pinky finger to get the fifth fret of the A string. Let’s take a look at one of those variations (or inversions) right now. Not only is this useful to help make chords easier to play, but it’s also useful to know so you can find variations of a chord that still contain the correct notes. Once you know the notes, you can choose which one to drop out, whether this is for music reasons or just because you’re finding the chord a little difficult. This technique works for any major or minor chord. We’ve just dropped out one of our two A notes. It contains all of the notes found in the D chord. ![]() Let’s say that you’re struggling to get all 3 fingers on the frets, well you could simply strum the bottom 3 strings and forget about fretting the top string (G string). This becomes useful if you’re struggling with the D chord. If you’re interested in chord construction check out my post on major chord construction for more details. Chords often double up notes so that you can strum all of the strings rather than just three of them. So when you’re playing the D chord as shown in either chord box above, you’re playing each of those notes but you’re also playing an additional A note. ![]() The notes found in a D chord are D, F# and A. Even though you’re strumming 4 strings, you’re actually playing 3 notes. ![]() Here comes a little theory now, don’t be scared. You should never really think of chords in pure isolation, well unless you’re playing a one chord song. Your fingers are a little bit more bunched up but I think it’s a more versatile way to play the chord. The reason I do this is I find it far easier to transition from this fingering to an A chord and also to a G chord and both of these are very common chords that are never far from a D. More often than not, I change the order of my fingers around so that my second finger is fretting on the second fret of the G string and my index finger is getting the second fret of the C string. It’s very rare that I play a D chord as shown above. When learning any new chord it’s always useful to play each string separately once you’ve got it fretted, this will help you hear any potential dead notes that you haven’t quite fretted properly or where another finger is catching a string. When you’re fretting a D chord, do your best to keep your thumb behind the neck of your ukulele rather than creeping over the top of the neck, this will make it far easier for you to get enough pressure to make it ring out.Īlso watch out for the open A string, try and make sure that your third finger isn’t blocking that string from sounding out. A standard open D chord on ukulele involves fretting at fret 2 of the G, C and E strings leaving the A string open. ![]()
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