While it sounds intimidating and many beginners dread playing barre chords, with a little practice you can master it. A barre chord is a chord played on a string instrument such as a guitar or ukulele where one finger plays more than one string at a time, making a “bar” with that finger. The ukulele tab for G minor looks like this:Īnd now for the trickiest chord we will be talking about in this blog: the B minor chord! The reason this chord shape is challenging is because it requires us to play a barre chord. To play it, you place your pointer finger, (your first finger), on the first fret of the A string, your middle finger (second finger) on the second fret of the C string, and your ring finger (third finger) on the third fret of the E string. The notes in the chord of G minor are G, Bb (B flat), and D. If we remember that our string names are G C E A, and we know the notes involved in playing A minor are A, C, and E, then to play it on the ukulele, we know that we simply fret the 2nd fret of the G string with your middle finger (your second finger), and then strum all the rest of the strings open. Because it is in both the key of C and the key of G, which are two of the most popular keys to play in, you will use this chord a lot in your playing! So, just how do we form the Am chord? It also happens to be a very common chord in many songs played on the ukulele. The A minor chord is one of the easiest to play on the ukulele. In this blog, we will be looking at the most common ways to play these chords. When you know the notes involved in forming a particular chord, any combination of those notes will make the same chord. It’s important to mention here that there are many different “voicings” of the same chords that can be played on the ukulele. On the ukulele, this means we are playing the open C string.
To do this, we move the third note of the chord 1 fret down. So, for example, the notes in the A major chord are “A, C#, and E.” Therefore, to make the chord a minor chord, we need to drop the C# down to a C- one half step. In music theory, to make any minor chord involves taking the root third note of any major chord and “flattening” it, or, dropping it down a half-step. Plus, stay tuned at the end of the blog for some songs you can play using these chords! Building Minor Chords We are often taught in music class that minor chords sound “sad” and major chords sound “happy.” In this blog, we will talk about the most common ways to play three different minor chords on the ukulele, in increasing difficulty: Am, Gm, and Bm.
Minor chords have a different “feel” to them. In the language of music, there are major chords and minor chords.
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