Fmaj7 ukulele chord

Lush, warm, and jazzy. The natural 7th sits a semitone below the octave, giving a soft, unresolved shimmer.

F major 7th · standard GCEA tuning · 3 shapes

How to Play Fmaj7 on Ukulele

The easiest shape is 5500: G string 5th fret · C string 5th fret · E string open · A string open.

Fmaj7 ukulele chord, Up the neck, fret 55

Up the neck, fret 5

5 5 0 0

Fmaj7 ukulele chord, First position

First position

2 4 1 3

Fmaj7 ukulele chord, Barre at fret 88

Barre at fret 8

9 9 8 8

Strings left to right are G, C, E and A, as the ukulele faces you. Numbers are frets; 0 means play the string open. Every shape is worked out from the notes the chord must contain and checked against them before it is published.

Notes in Fmaj7

F
root
A
3rd
C
5th
E
7th

A ukulele has four strings, so a 4-note chord uses every string for a different note — there is nothing left to double. Because the G string is tuned high (reentrant tuning), the lowest note you hear is usually on the C or E string, not the G.

Songs and Keys That Use Fmaj7

Fmaj7 belongs to 2 major keys: C major (as the IV chord) and F major (as the I chord).

  • I – IV – V — the backbone of blues and early rock
  • vi – IV – I – V — the pop-punk staple
  • I – V – vi – IV — the most common progression in pop

Fmaj7 on Other Instruments

  • Guitar: see the Fmaj7 guitar chord — six strings, so the shapes are different, but the notes are the same.
  • Baritone ukulele (DGBE): 2211. A baritone is tuned like the top four strings of a guitar, so guitar shapes carry over and standard-ukulele shapes do not. Tune one with the baritone ukulele tuner.

Tune first

A right shape on an out-of-tune ukulele still sounds wrong. Check G, C, E and A in a few seconds.

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