Ukulele Lesson 11 - Movable Chord Shape 1 (UK-011)

Ukulele Lesson 11: Movable Chord Shape 1. In this lesson we'll learn Shape 1 Major, Minor and 7 grips. These chords use the root note on String 1 so you need to make sure you know the notes on the neck! These are the uke version of barre chords. See the web site for chord boxes and more info!

Taught by Justin Sandercoe.

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Hey how you doing.

Justin here for another
ukulele lesson for you.

and today we are checking out
shape one of the

moveable chords.

Okay, so. Hopefully by this
stage you're really hip with all of

the open chord shapes on the uke that
we've covered so far in the course.

And now we're going to look at the
chord shapes that move

up and down the neck.

Okay, and this particular one
that we're looking at today

I've called shape one.

Now, the root note for that
is on the first string. Okay?

The one that start with the note A. Okay?

So, you need to be familiar
with the notes on the first string.

Okay? Particularly the ones kind of
early on from the nut,

say the first 5/6 frets particularly. Ok?

So let's get to a close up.

Check out this chord and
what the root note is,

and see if we can't change the chords
around a little bit.

Okay, Here we are with the first of our
moveable chord shapes ...

for the ukulele.

This one I call Shape One.

We're going to start with the
third finger

on the fourth fret of the fourth string.

Then we put the second finger down
in the third fret of the third string,

and we use our 1st finger
to cover 2 strings in the 2nd fret.

That'll be the 1st string and
the 2nd string on the 2nd fret.

Some people prefer to put the fingers
down in order, so 1st finger 1st,

doing a little mini-barré there,
2nd finger down on the 3rd fret

of the 3rd string, 3rd finger
down on the 4th fret of the 4th string.

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That's what it sounds like.

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For those of you who're curious where it
comes from, if you remember our A chord,

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Open chord, we've re-fingered that
using strings 2 and 3,

if we move that up one fret and then our
1st finger replaces the nut,

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That's where we've got it!
So, that's (♪) A chord,

Up one fret from A chord would be
A sharp (♪), up one more would be B (♪)

And here is our root note.
So, that was the note A.

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If we wanted to play a B chord,
- A, A#, B - (♪)

There's B, (♪),-
B chord!

What would it be if we move it up
one more fret? (♪)

What's this note here? (♪)
3rd fret of the thinnest string.

That would be the note C (♪)
So that would be a C chord (♪)

We already got a C chord like that.
But we can play it ( ♪)

It's another way of playing a C chord now,

so, we could do that (♪), way, or that way (♪)

Same chord. You can hear it sounds
slightly different, but it's essentially

the same chord. Anyone figure out where
we'd put it if we wanted to play a D# chord?

Think about it! So, we had an A there,
A#, B, C, C#, D, D#

Right up on the 6th fret (♪)
That's how we'd get our D# chord (♪)

Okay, so, make sure you get that!

So we've got A,- would be the open chord,-
up one, A sharp/B flat, up another one B.

C, C sharp/D flat, D, D sharp/E flat, E.

Okay, so it's a moveable chord shape.

Very-very cool little idea, you'll learn
lots of different chords this way.

So, it get's cooler. 'cause that's the
major chord, ok? If I move it back to B.

So, 1st finger's in the 2nd fret.

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That's the major chord.
If we take off the 2nd finger,

and move the bar over, so it's covering now

3 strings, so we've got:
4th fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret, 2nd fret.

Now I'm kind of moving my 2nd finger
other way, so you can see, I'd normally

just leave it hanging around.
Okay, so 4th fret, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd

That would be a B minor chord.

Ok? So, major..minor...ok?

Now, the same idea just moves around.

So, if we wanted to say,
take it up to a D chord at the 5th fret,

that'll be a D major chord.
That'll be a D minor.

Ok? Major...minor...major...minor...

Ok? So, if I wanted you to play a
B flat minor chord, you'd start with A,

find the root note first, so that'd be A,
A#/ B flat,- ok, there's the root note,

now, we know, that was the major shape,
oh, there's the minor shape!

There's B flat minor (♪)

What, if we wanted to play a D flat minor?

Ok, 1st of all, you find where the D is,
so, A, A sharp, B, C, C sharp, D,

Then we want a D flat,- we said,
D flat minor, so, D, flat, we put down the shape

and we want D flat minor.
So, we'd use that shape (♪) - Ok?

If you're really clever, you could 've gone
straight to the D flat, there, and then

put down the minor grip - ok?
So, a really good exercise is to try

playing a few songs, just using these shapes.
See, if you can find some tunes that

are just using these (♪)

Ok? there's all sorts of different little
things that you can find that're just using

these one-shape kinda grips moving around.

Ok, so, we've looked at major, and minor,

There's also another really cool one
which is dominant 7 (♪)

Ok? So, we're just barring the whole neck now.
Ok? So, this is more like a proper barré chord

that we'd have on guitar; covering all
4 strings with the 1st finger,

and then we add the 2nd finger
in the 3rd fret of the 3rd string.

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2-3-2-2

Root note's still here, this would be a B7.

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If we wanted a D7:
ok, find B, C, C sharp, D.

Put the shape down!

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Ok? it's really important that you
get used to this idea of finding

the root note on the thinnest string and
then putting down the appropriate shape.

Either major, minor, or 7.

It's very likely, that learning these
moveable shapes on the uke are

a little bit more challenging then
the regular open chords and require

a little bit more finger strength,
but it's just practice!

Particularly on ukulele, the fact that
strings are nice and soft and you don't

usually have to press'em down too hard,
should make it relatively easy.

It's definitely not as difficult as learning
barré chords on the guitar.

The big deal is, making sure that you know
those root notes. 'Cause without knowing the

root notes, the notes on that thinnest string,

you're not gonna be able to use these shapes.

But what this has done, in case you hadn't realised,-
is given you a whole lotta chords.

You've got 3 chords on each different fret
that you know know, a maj. chord, a min.chord

and a dominant 7th on every fret,
all the way up, as far as you can get

your fingers still in the frets - ok?
That's a whole lot of chords.

I don't know exactly how many, but a LOT.
Depends on, I guess, how far up the neck

you feel like you can get to.
But this gives you access now to

all of those chords that you couldn't
play before. if you see C#min. or E flat7

or whatever, these kind of chords that you
might not have been able to play in an

open position, you can now play them
using this shape one.

There's five shapes alltogether.
But this particular shape is the one that

I recommend you spend quite a bit of time
with first-ok? And it's got that root note

on the thinnest string, which is in
some instances is the easiest string

to remember the note names of - ok?
So, get to grips with that solidly first,

before you even think about learning
more shapes, but when you're ready,

join me for the next one, and we're gonna
be looking at Shape Two!

Take care of yourselves!
Bye-bye!