Ukulele Chords

144 chords and 410 shapes for soprano, concert and tenor ukulele in standard G C E A tuning. Each shape is worked out from the notes the chord must contain, so every diagram here sounds exactly the chord it names — with the easiest shape first.

Start With These Eight

C, Am, F and G alone play thousands of songs — they are the I, vi, IV and V of C major. D, Em, A and G7 open up the keys of G and D.

C ukulele chord diagramC0003Am ukulele chord diagramAm2000F ukulele chord diagramF2010G ukulele chord diagramG0232D ukulele chord diagramD2220Em ukulele chord diagramEm0432A ukulele chord diagramA2100G7 ukulele chord diagramG70212

Every Key

The chords you will look up most, by root note. The number under each is its easiest shape, G string first.

Reading Ukulele Chord Diagrams

Diagrams show the fretboard as the ukulele faces you: the four strings run top to bottom, left to right as G, C, E and A, and the thick line at the top is the nut. A dot is where a finger goes; a curved bar across several strings is a barre with one finger. The shorthand under each chord — like 0003 for C — lists the fret for each string in the same order, with 0 for an open string.

Standard tuning is reentrant: the G string is tuned above the C, not below it. That is why ukulele chords sound bright and close together, and why a shape that looks like a guitar chord usually is not one. Soprano, concert and tenor ukuleles all use these shapes. A baritone ukulele is tuned D G B E instead, and every chord page gives its baritone shape too.

Tune before you judge a shape — use the ukulele tuner — and if you play guitar as well, the guitar chord library has the same chords on six strings.