From the course: Ukulele Lessons: Fundamentals
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Changing chords
From the course: Ukulele Lessons: Fundamentals
Changing chords
- Now let's learn some chords. The first chord we're going to learn is the C chord, and we play this by pressing the third fret of our first string and strumming down to C chord. The second chord is the easiest. It's the C six chord or A minor seven chord and we do this by playing all open strings. A minor seven. The next chord is an F chord, and we'll use our index finger to play the first fret of our second string and our middle finger to play the second fret of our fourth string. And finally the G seven chord. The G seven chord is played by using our ring finger to play the second fret of the first string, our index finger to play the first fret of the second string, and our middle finger to play the second fret of the third string. Now remember I mentioned that we want to try to keep our fingers parallel to the frets. In the case of a G seven chord it might be easier to twist your wrist off a little bit to the side so all your fingers can reach the notes easily, like so. Let's…
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