All 294 Lessons

The I IV V V Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Folk, Rock, Country and various other styles.

The I V VI IV Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Fold, Rock, Country and various other styles.

The I VI IV V Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Fold, Rock, Country and various other styles. Know as the Fifties, "Doo Woop" Progression.

The IV I V VI Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Fold, Rock, Country and various other styles.

The V VI IV I Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Fold, Rock, Country and various other styles.

The V VI IV I Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Fold, Rock, Country and various other styles.

The I IV I V Full Diatonic progression popular in Pop, Fold, Rock, Country and various other styles.

Open position G chord and its movable form and variations.

The "G/Ab Movable Form Ukulele Chords", based on the open position "G, Gm, and G7" chords allow you to transpose these to any key. The movable form chords are the next step after learning the core open position chords.

Open position G7 chord and its movable form and variations.

Open position Gm chord and its movable form and variations.

Hearing The Changes is knowing what the chords of a song or chord progression are and when they change. This lesson gets you on the road to developing this ability. This involves know the chords of the keys and scales that are used for common progressions and songs. And the ability to recognize the sound of intervals, the distance between intervals.

There are two approaches to learning chords, the song based approach and learning the fundamentals approach. I'm a big advocate of building a solid base of the fundamentals. A lot of players new to the ukulele like to jump right in and learn songs.

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.

Five major arpeggio positions on the ukulele.

The Mixolydian progression - "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd: This iconic rock song is built around a Mixolydian-based guitar riff. The chords used in the main progression are D-C-G, which are characteristic of the Mixolydian mode in the key of D.

A series of weekly ukulele lessons, originally presented throughout 2007 on movable ukulele chords as the Chord a Week Series. Based on my (Curt Sheller) Ukulele Chords book, it takes the open position chords and shows the movable form and the variations.

A Chord can have alternate names based on how it is being used. A chord's function is an important determining factor in naming a chord. So unless you know the harmonic function of a given chord, you might not be able to accurately name it.

The basic first chords most players learn. There are the chords in the first, second, third, and fourth frets of the ukulele and include at least one open string.

In the key of C major Pachelbel's Canon is: C G Am Em F C F G. This is a I V VI III IV I IV V in harmonic analysis notation. In Nashville Numbering it's 1 5 6 3 4 1 4 5. It is a full diatonic progression with all the chords coming from it's parent major scale. A bit of a varaition of the Four Chord Pop progression.