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Help Reading Music Tabs?

I just got an ukulele, and I am having trouble reading chords in tab format. Can someone please help me out?

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    http://ukulelehunt.com/how-to-read-ukulele-tab/

    This link has the introduction and step by step instructions on reading and understanding ukulele tabs. The website also has tons of other aspects and its really helpful. good luck :)

  • ebs
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    "Ukulele Chord Chart":

    http://www.ukalady.com/Images/UkeChart.pdf

    "Ukulele Chord Finder":

    http://www.ukulele.nl/chordfinder.php

    "Ukulele Chords":

    http://www.ezfolk.com/uke/chords/

    "11 Must-Know Ukulele Chords for Beginners":

    http://www.ukuleletricks.com/11-must-know-ukulele-...

    Cheers ebs

  • 8 years ago

    Each line on the graph represents a string on the instrument, each number represents where you put your fingers on the string. If there is a "3", then you count three frets down from the headstock. Chords you just have to put everything together

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    in case you're extremely severe, i might pass with each and each of the theory you will get hold of. My chum and lead guitarist is a severe type, and he's person-friendly with sheet music. He can p.c.. up a written web site and play it almost completely each and every time, because of fact he took the time to benefit how. getting to grasp that stuff enabled him to distinctly much grasp the piano quickly, in fact. yet he can not play via ear ok in any respect, so jamming out new stuff isn't an decision for him. i've got been playing in simple terms as long (25+ years), and sheet music appears like fowl scratches on a twine fence to me. in case you surpassed me a bite of sheet music and stated "see what you're able to do with this" i might make it right into a sharp paper goose. yet i could have maximum songs found out via ear in the previous they are complete playing. i don't continuously get each and each of the notes and licks lifeless-on, yet close adequate is close adequate. i might in all probability be extra suitable if I had studied and discovered the theory, yet i can not. i attempted, and it quite is in simple terms too boring. it extremely is in all probability why he and that i artwork so properly at the same time, and we've had countless fulfillment. not recognition and fortune, yet distinctly much style of popular. yet there is yet another type of guitarist, and you'd be it. it extremely is the guitarist who has the two a scientific awareness and intestine instinct, and would combine them at will. in case you could combine organic pastime with razor-sharp technique, you have have been given all of it. that's what the immortal adult men like Clapton, web site, Hetfield, Tipton, Liona Boyd (not a guy, yet nevertheless) and Santana all have. i'm not asserting you would be as massive as them, yet i'm asserting you need to be. you will in simple terms ought to verify the place you prefer to take your music and what you will ought to take it there, and make your decision. you could not pass incorrect examining theory in case you could stand doing it, so I say shop getting to grasp it until you develop into bored. no person ever stated you could not have the two.

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