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Learn Ukulele
Five practical guides for tuning, chords, strumming, and your first fingerpicking patterns.
Start with the basics
Follow the guides in order if you are new, or jump straight to the skill you want. Each guide works on its own.
Ukulele BasicsMeet the instrument, tune it, and find a comfortable way to hold it.Chord DiagramsRead strings, frets, dots, finger numbers, and open or muted strings.Beginner ChordsStart with useful chord shapes that work together in common keys.How to strumLearn a relaxed strumming motion, read down and up notation, and play three beginner patterns.FingerpickingGive each picking finger a job and build a simple repeating pattern.
Practise what you learn
The guides explain the ideas. The free tools help you hear them and put them under your fingers.
Tune up with the online tuner, look up a shape in the chord library, then keep time with a strumming pattern or chord progression.