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How To Read Ukulele Chord Diagrams
Chord diagrams are quite easy to understand. Imagine you are looking at a ukulele fretboard with the headstock at the top. The strings are illustrated as vertical lines (from left to right G C E A string) and the frets are the horizontal lines with numbers to signify each fret.
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All the different chord shapes are represented by dots on the strings. Each dot represents the placement of a finger onto a string. The numbers inside the dots relate to which particular finger is to be placed in that position:
(1) Index Finger
(2) Middle Finger
(3) Ring Finger
(4) Pinky Finger
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