Sep 03
How do you play guitar chords on the ukulele?
It’s sad to say, but it is far more easy to find guitar chords online than it is to find ukulele chords. Luckily, there’s no problem whatsoever translating them to ukulele.
Chords written for the guitar will be exactly the same on the ukulele. If the guitar chord sheet tells you to play G, you just play the standard G chord shape on the ukulele. It’s as simple as that.
Make sure you have a ukulele chord dictionary on hand to check the chord shapes. You’ll want to ignore the guitar chord diagrams as the G chord shape for guitar looks different to the G chord shape on the ukulele.
April 30th, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Yes, but I have a follow-up question that I really hope someone can help me with: What about when the guitar chords say to put on a capo, for example on the 5th fret. Then how do you translate these to the ukulele? It comes out sounding all wrong when I play them like they are written, obviously because of the capo thing.
A million thank you’s to whoever has an answer to this problem!