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Exploring Jazz Chords on Ukulele
Exploring jazz chords using a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire. Core Chords are the basic set of chords needed to play a wide range of music, in a variety of styles. This set of chords includes basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and the core 4-part "jazz" chords.
Author(s): Curt Sheller Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Code: AGCUKE1STD
Main Category: Chords Main Instrument: Ukulele
Categories: Chords, Jazz, Repertoire, Progressions, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Core
24 June 2026
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- Product Code: AGCUKE1STD
- Author(s): Curt Sheller
- Publisher(s): Curt Sheller Publications
- Published: 2 January 2007
- Updated: 10 January 2020
- ISBN-13: 0-9714044-7-X
- Size*: ANSI A
- Pages: 54
- Hard Copy Price: $17.95
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Exploring jazz chords using a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire. Core Chords are the basic set of chords needed to play a wide range of music, in a variety of styles. This set of chords includes basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and the core 4-part "jazz" chords.
Core Chords are the basic set of chords needed to play a wide range of music, in a variety of styles. This set of chords includes basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and the core 4-part "jazz" chords.
This book''s focuses on the 4-part core "jazz" chords. These jazz chords are advanced chords that find their way into a wide range of music.
Exploring Jazz Chords takes the core chords from A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows their use over a variety of common chord progressions based on songs from the standard jazz repertoire.
Building a Solid Chord Foundation using _Seventh_, _Major Seventh_, Major 6, _Minor Seventh_, _Minor Sixth_, _Diminished Seventh_, _Minor Seventh Flat Five_ and _Augmented Seventh_ chords.
Tunings: C and G. Low or high string four variations.
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Beyond learning basic ukulele chords most players struggle with advanced chords. Commonly called “jazz” chords, these more sophisticated voicings find a wide use in all forms of music.
In my book A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele I presented a highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords. Chord dictionaries are not the answer. Even chord theory does not offer any insight into unraveling the complexity of ukulele chord voicings.If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele is your answer. This book, Exploring “Jazz” Chords takes the core chords from that book A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows examples using those chords over common chord progressions.
If your goal is to expand your chord vocabulary, A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele is your answer. This book, Exploring “Jazz” Chords takes the core chords from that book A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele and shows examples using those chords over common chord progressions.
Introduction
Chords can be categorized into four chord types; major, minor, diminished and augmented. Four-part chords based on the major, minor, diminished and augmented chord types can be voiced across the four strings of the ukulele.
Chord notation is an inexact science. Some of the more common chord notations are shown throughout the book.
All chords presented can be played on a standard “C” tuned four string ukulele, either a high “G” or low “G” string four.
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Core Chords
- Building a Solid “Jazz” Chord Foundation
- Fingerboard Chart
- Seventh
- Major Seventh
- Minor Seventh
- Root on String One Transposition Chart
- Root on String Two Transposition Chart
- Root on String Three Transposition Chart
- Root on String Four Transposition Chart
- m7b5, dim7 and aug7
- Chord Notation and Symbols
- Sample Chord Progressions with Example Voicings
- Blues Progression 1
- Blues Progression 2
- Blues Progression 3
- Blues Progression 4
- All of Me
- All of Me - Variation
- Autumn Leaves
- All the Things You Are
- Days of Wine and Roses
- There Will Never Be Another You
- Back Home In Indiana
- Someday My Prince Will Come
- Have You Met Miss Jones
- Summer Samba
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- Sweet Georgia Brown - Variation
- Yesterday
- It’s Only A Paper Moon
- 2 Jan 2007 - (20070102.1.2), Book released
- 25 Jan 2007 - (20070102.1.3), (pg 14) m7 chord fourth voicing over should have all the notes in the same fret.
- 30 Nov 20066 - Errata File Created
- 20 April 2022 — The Bmaj7 chord should be Bbmaj7. The chord grids are correct just the chord name is wrong.
4-part Contemporary Chords, a.k.a. Jazz Chords
Core Chords is a series of lessons for building your 4-part chords. These chords commonly called jazz chords, are really just 4-part chords used in a wide range of musical styles. Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords. There are just too many chords shapes too memorize. Learning the principles of how chords are constructed and the ukulele fingerboard are the way to go. Then you can create more advanced chords like 9#11, 7#5-9, 13b5, 7+9 on the fly as needed.
Chord a Day, January 11th - D7
Learn a new Ukulele chord every day of the year. The chord for January 11th is D7. This partial D7 is ofter referred to as the Hawaiian D7 chord after its use in the Chord sequence C D7 G7, a common turnaround in Hawaiian music. So much so that it's called the Hawaiian Turnaround.
Chord a Day, March 3rd - F7
Learn a new Ukulele chord every day of the year. The chord for March 3rd is F7. We are now entering into the so-called “Jazz” chord, world of chords. Technically “Jazz” chords are simply 4-part contemporary chords that find the use in a wide variety of traditional and contemporary music.
Types of `Ukulele Chords
Naturally, for Ukuleles, all chords need to be voiced using only the four strings available. You would think that this is limiting, when in actuality it's quite liberating when you learn the makeup of chords. Chords can be categorized into four categories: “Open Position Chords”, “Movable Form Chords”, “4-part - a.k.a. Jazz Chords”, and “Free Form Chords.”
