Ukulele Barre Chord Chart

Movable shapes · barre all four strings, add the shape on top · 14 shape families up the neck · tap to see & hear

How to play

A barre chord is just an open chord shape with your index finger acting as the nut. Lay it flat across all four strings at some fret, play a familiar shape above it, and the whole chord moves up the neck with you.
Pick a shape family from the grey buttons — A shape, C shape, F shape and so on are named after the open chord they come from. Then pick a barre fret. The chart tells you which chord that combination actually produces.
The arithmetic is simple: every fret you move up raises the chord by one semitone. The A shape barred at fret 1 gives B♭, at fret 2 gives B, at fret 3 gives C, and so on. Learn five shapes and you have every chord on the instrument.
The thick bar in the diagram is the barre; the number on it is your index finger. Numbered dots above it are the fingers you add.
Tip — if a barre buzzes, roll your index finger slightly onto its bony outer edge and move it closer to the fret wire. Squeezing harder is almost never the fix.
Tap a chord to see its shape and hear it strummed across the four strings.
The row of grey buttons picks the chord type — Common holds the twelve every beginner learns, and the rest give you all twelve roots of that type: Major, Minor, 7th, m7, maj7, 6th, m6, sus2, sus4, dim7, m7♭5 and aug. That is 144 chords in total.
A thick bar across the diagram means a barre — lay one finger flat across those strings and press them all at once. The number on the bar is the finger to use (nearly always your index).
Some shapes sit further up the neck. When they do, the nut disappears and a label like 5fr tells you which fret the top row of the diagram is — count up from there.
Reading the diagram — thick bar on top is the nut; the four vertical lines are the strings g, C, E, A (left to right). Dots show where to press, and the number is the finger. ◯ = open, × = don’t play.
Tuning is re‑entrant: the g string is higher than the C string, so the strings aren’t low‑to‑high left‑to‑right — that’s normal for a ukulele.
Strum re‑plays it (tap the diagram too). Vol sets volume. Keyboard: Tab + Enter/Space.
Tip 1 — C is the easiest (one finger); start there, then try Am and F. Those three plus G7 already cover a lot of songs.
Tip 2 — if a barre chord buzzes, roll the finger slightly onto its bony side and move it closer to the fret wire. Pressing harder is rarely the fix.

Vol

Dots = press here (finger number) · ◯ open string · × muted

This ukulele barre chord chart help you visualize and hear movable chord shape across the fretboard, providing an audio and visual reference for these chord forms. By using your computer keyboard or mouse, you can click through the chord shapes. It will break down more complicated barre chords into more easily managed form. So you can get an idea of what your open chords looks like on the higher frets.

At the top left of the app are buttons representing various chord families (shapes) such as G, F, D, C, and A; each family include its relative minor and 7th variation. As you choose your family from these buttons the grid below display every chord you could play within that family, i.e. These is based off an open chord shape that is familiar to you and that you can then ‘move’ around the neck. Depending on what family of chords you have chosen, these are displayed in the grid.

How to Use the Ukulele Chord Chart

Simply click on a chord in the grid to highlight it. The diagram for that chord will then appear on the right-hand side. This is how the diagram illustrates finger placement. The heavy horizontal bar indicate your index finger pressing down across several strings. The dots represent which fingers to use for the other strings.

Above the grid is a volume slider and Strum button. The strum option let you listen to how the chord sounds when played with a click. Below this are two buttons that let you play in two different directions up or down. The volume slider allows you to set the playback volume how you like. There’s also an option to replay the sound by clicking on the chord diagram itself. No need to reach for button.

The interface is also navigable without a mouse if you are on a keyboard. Just use the tab key to cycle through all of the controls. To select the chords and press the buttons, just hit enter or spacebar on them. So if you don’t want to take your hands off the keyboard, this will get you up and running quick.

How to Play button, when pressed, an instruction panel appears to describe how to read the diagrams and the barre technique. So if you’re not sure where your fingers go (you might have forgotten), or don’t know what all those symbols mean on the charts, then this will be helpful. Once you’ve got the hang of the basics, switch it off to free up some screen space.

Click on the Fullscreen button for full-screen mode. That’s useful if you’re showing the screen or just need a better look at the diagram. To exit full-screen mode, hit the Escape key or click the fullscreen button again.

Explore what happens when you use a single shape to create alternative chords. Take the A shape starting on the first fret and move it up onto the second fret where the Bb becomes a B. See how fingerings are exactly the same but the notes has changed. It will help reinforce the idea of barre chords and also enable you to learn chords in new keys more easyly.

Use the audio feature to tune. Strumming a chord in the widget and trying to play that on your own ukulele is a great way to tune and test your technique. You will train your ears by matching the pitch. If you’re getting clear tones without any buzzing, that’s good finger placement.

Experimenting with minor and major families will demonstrate the mood shift. Strum a C major chord followed by the Cm shape in the same fret position. Not only do you see it, but you hear how the harmony is changed by slight finger changes. This is a rapid-fire approach that doesn’t require referencing any theory to compare chord quality.

The chart covers fourteen shape families, providing access to one hundred forty-four chords. Major, minor, seventh, diminished, and augmented variations is included giving almost all the chords required for mainstream music.

Stick initially to just one family during your practice session. Get the feel of the finger action before moving on to other shapes. It’s quicker to build muscle memory if you stick with one pattern. When confident, widen your reach into nearby families to stretch further.

Pick a straightforward chord from the Common section, then play away. Listen using the strum function and follow the diagram for your hand positions. Get to grips with navigation, volume and more before it becomes intuitive. These are very useful shapes so enjoy roaming around the neck.