If you have never held a guitar or a ukulele, start here. Four chords is genuinely enough to play hundreds of songs.
1. Tune up first
Guitar, low to high: E A D G B E. Ukulele, low to high: G C E A. A free tuner app is accurate enough to start with.
2. Learn these four shapes
On ukulele the starter four are:
3. Keep the strumming hand moving
Down, down, up, up, down, up. Your strumming hand should never stop, even while your fretting hand is still finding the next shape.
4. Use the tools on every song page
- Transpose moves the whole song to a key that suits your voice.
- Simplify chords swaps barre chords for easier versions.
- Auto scroll keeps the page moving so both hands stay on the instrument.
- Beginner mode shows a diagram for every chord in the song.