Ukulele Chords 101: A Beginner's Guide to Playing Songs

1. Intro: Hi, My name is Jacob Lam. I'm a musician and a music teacher. In this course, we're going to cover the basics of Ukulele. Courts. Will see all of the basic shapes and what makes a chord. We're going to turn those chords into our favorite songs. So we'll be covering chord progressions and changing between chords. And we'll also figure out how to go online and find chords to the songs that you want to play. By the end. This course, you should be able to go find chords to any song in your head, or write your own chord progressions and your own songs, and then play them effortlessly. It'll be a lot of fun. So let's jump in together. 2. Names of the Strings: Welcome to the first official learning video of this course. Now, before we get into the chords, we need to understand the names of the four strings on our ukulele. And these are actually really simple. From the top to the bottom, are strings are G, C, E, and a. Now, the reason that's so easy is because we have a sentence to help us memorize those letters. Good chefs eat a lot. And it's true good chefs do eat a lot. So G, C, E, and a. Now, when we go through chords together, we're going to talk about numbers, how they're made up using numbers. But we're also going to talk about the letters in the courts. Now, if we know the names of the strings, we're going to be able to find the letters in each chord much easier. 3. What is a Chord?: So I guess it's important to ask, what is a chord? Well, a chord really simply is any three or more notes that we're playing at the same time. Now, we have four strings on our Ukulele. So as long as we're strumming, all of the strings were playing chords. Now, cords are constructed out of numbers. And here's what I mean. To play any chord. We're going to be looking for 13.5. Now, you'll notice those are every other number we're skipping over two. And for now, to use this method, we looked at the start and we put, well, any letter there we want. As an example, we'll use C. Now, the first letter in our chord or whatever's on number one, is going to be the root of our cord and also the name of our chord. So we have a C note, and we start from a C note to make a C chord. If we wanted a G chord, we would start from a G note. Whatever chord we want, we're going to start from that note. Then we find 3.5 relative to the root node. So if our example is C, Then we just lay out and count the notes after C, C, D, E, F, and G. So we have our root. Our three would be an E and R five would be a G. What this means is that the notes in a C chord would be C, E, and G. Let's try one more as an example. If I wanted to play a G chord, then in that first position I'm going to put a G note. Now I lay out the letters again, G, a, B, C, D. And I see my 13.5 is G, B and D. Now, as a quick note, go to the side here. This is the theory of what makes a chord a chord, or how we find the notes. So knowing the names of the strings is really helpful. But we're going to also look at the actual chord shapes in this course. So this is the theory side of things. And there are two more rules we want to notice about our chords. We're looking at three notes in a chord, but we have four strings on our Ukulele. So one thing that's really helpful to know is that we can have multiple instances of any of these notes. E.g. if I play a C chord on my ukulele, I've got four notes there. We know we're looking for C, E, and G. But here I've got a G, a, C, an E. And then instead of the a string, I'm putting my finger down to make it another C. I've got C, E, and G or 13.5. But I've got two instances of the one. Another thing that we're noticing is that the notes aren't necessarily in order. Here. We've got the five, first, the one, the three, and back to the one. So when we're playing the shapes for the chords on our ukulele, really all that we're doing is starting from a root note, counting 13.5, and then finding shapes to play those notes on the neck of our instrument. 4. Major and Minor: Another thing we want to understand, our major and minor chords. These are two different types of courts. Now, really simply major chord sound happy and minor chords sound sad. So here's an example of a major chord, and it's an a chord. Now, here's an example of minor chord, a sad sounding chord. Also starting from an a note, this would be an a minor chord. So we have major and minor. The difference between major and minor chords is one small note. The shapes on the ukulele will be very similar. Now, if we're writing out a major chord, we're just writing the letter of that chord. The default is major. It's assumed that the chord is major. If we want to write a minor chord, then we're going to put a small M next to the letter, which stands for minor. The way to pronounce this wouldn't be a M, but a minor. 5. Introducing Our First Chords: Now we're actually into the shapes that we're going to be learning for these chords. And we're going to start with the four most important or common chords. That's a C chord, an E minor chord, a G chord, and a D chord. Now, why do I say these are the most common? Well, we can look up songs that use these four chords and get probably hundreds. There have been video is made where people move from pop song to pop song, just playing these four chords. 6. Em and C: We're going to take these chords in two videos. The first two we'll look at is an E minor chord and a C chord. Now, for an E minor chord, we're going to play the open fourth string, so forth, being the one closest to us, the first string being the one most towards the floor. So 1234, the fourth string. We're not going to touch anything. We're going to hit it, but we're going to hit it open. Now, I'm going to take my third finger and place it on the fourth fret of the third string, which means I'm going to count for metal bars 1234. Then I'm going to play just before that metal bar. So I'm hitting the open fourth string and the fourth fret on the third string. Now, my middle finger is going to get the third fret of the second string. Now finally, my first finger is going to grab the second fret. The first string. That's an E minor chord. Our C chord is actually much easier. For the C chord. We're going to have three open strings. 43.2 will all be open. And the only thing I'm going to do is take my ring finger and I'm going to place it on the third fret of the first string. Now, the best way to practice chords is to move back and forth between them. So we're going to be doing a lot of chord practice in this course. Let's start by putting our fingers in the position for an E minor chord. And I'm going to take my hand and just strum down back to a C, and strum down twice. These two chord shapes are in the book that comes with your course. So give a look, practice moving back and forth between them. Don't beat yourself up. If it takes you a long time to transition, it takes everybody a long time to transition. At the start of playing an instrument. When we have those two comfortable, we'll move on to the next two. 7. G and D: Now our next two chords in this list are a G chord and a D chord, both major chords. And you'll notice in the foremost common chords, we've got a minor chord. Songs can have a blend of major and minor, whether they're happy sounding songs or sad sounding songs. Happy songs can have minor sad chords and vice versa. They don't impact the overall theme of the song. In fact, they add a lot of emotion to the song. But for now, let's look at a G chord and a D chord. Now, for a G chord, we're going to play again an open fourth string. You'll notice that a G string, so it's a G note. I'm going to take my first finger and place it on the second fret of the third string. My ring finger will go on the third fret of the second string. That's another G note. It's the same note as the open fourth string. And this middle finger is going to kind of talk through the other two to grab the second fret of the first string. So altogether we have the open string, second fret, third fret, second fret. And our last chord, and these foremost common chords is going to be a D. Now, D is kinda funny. It's all on the same fret besides one open string. So I've got my first finger on the second fret of the fourth string. My middle finger also on the second fret of the third string. My ring finger also on the second fret of the second string. Then we need to kind of get all three of our fingers on that same fret. So however, we need to twist our hand to have our fingers in a row. And then our first string will be open. So let's look at all four of these most common chords. We add an E minor, C, a, G, and a d. Now we can put these chords in any order that we want to practice them. Maybe I want to do E minor to C, D to G. So I'll play E minor, C, D, and G. 8. Progressions and Song Form: What we just played, whether we knew it or not, is a chord progression. Now, a chord progression is just a set of chords in a row, and it's often repeated. And this is what songs are made out of. Songs have a unique chord progression for different parts of the song. E.g. the key parts of a song are the Vs, the chorus, and the bridge. Now, songs typically have a lot of the storytelling. The verse of the song, the main theme of the song, the part people know and hum in the chorus of the song. And oftentimes you'll find the title of the song there as well. Then the bridge breaks up a song that would otherwise be too repetitive. So e.g. a, normal song form, we'd have verse, chorus, verse chorus. And then just to keep people from getting bored, you'll have a bridge and finish with a chorus. So your verse is going to have chords to it. The chorus is going to have different chords. But the songwriters going to make sure that these different chords still sound good with diverse. They might be the same chords in a different order or a slightly different chords, but still ones that sound good. Then the bridge is going to do the same thing, different chords That's still sound good with the other two sets of courts. Now, there are other sections in songs. Some songs maybe have a pre-course that separates the verse from the chorus. Some songs might have an instrumental section as well. Some songs will have an intro and outro. And these kind of secondary sections of a song, good, either have different chords of their own or they could have the same chord. Sometimes an intro will be the same chords as a verse or a chorus. But why is this important? Well, this is really important because when we look up songs to play that we enjoy or when we write our own songs. It's important to recognize different sections of a song and see how these progressions that we're learning fit in with it. 9. Strumming Patterns: Now you may notice that when I'm strumming our new four chords, I'm moving my picking hand both down and up. We can bring chord progressions to life with a strumming pattern. Now, we may be moving fast here. So let's take a look at each of these three notes or more. Makeup a chord. A chord fits into a chord progression. Multiple chord progressions make up a song. And we can bring these chord progressions to life with a strumming pattern. This means we're taking are picking hand and instead of just playing down, we're playing some rhythmic combination of down and up. Songs can be broken into four beat songs or three-beat songs. What this means is that we can count a song either using four counts. 1234, 1234, 1234, 1234. Or we can count a song as three beats, 12, 312-312-3123. Each way of counting has got its own feel to it. So when we're learning strumming patterns, we want to make sure that we can account for both types of counting we want to learn for beat strumming patterns and three-beat strumming patterns. So let's go ahead and start with a couple of four beat strumming patterns. Here. Probably the most common one is down, down, up, up, down, up. We're going to pause right there and we're going to focus on that with one chord. Maybe we will take the easiest chord to play the C. I'm going to go down, down, up, up, down, up. Mentally. I like to break that into two sections. First one is the down, down, up. Next one is the up, down, up. Let's put it all together and see if we can loop it a couple of times and we'll go nice and slow. 12341234. So that's a strumming pattern that covers four beats or four counts. Which means that we could transition from chord to chord after we've counted for or after we've completed this pattern. Let's see if we can move between a C chord and a G chord. Our next four beat storming pattern is pretty fun. This one is down, down, up, down, up. Again. We can separate it into two different sections. The first one being down, down, the next one being up, down, up. So let's use our same chord. We'll look at a C chord and we'll go down, down, up, down, up, one more time. Down, down, up, down, up. We could even count are four beats with it. 12, 341-234-1234. Again, we can always move between C and G. Well that's great. What about our three-beat strumming pattern? Now, this one is interesting. We go down, up, down, up. This one is really weird. It's easy to mentally accidentally put the first down at the end. Sometimes we want to default to this kind of up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down feel. But we're going down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. Really making sure that the down is one mentally in our heads. That's where we're going to be switching. So this time let's use an E minor chord. And I'll play down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up. 123-12-3123. Let's move this time between an E minor and a G. So this would be, it's important to keep that first down as our one because that's where we're switching Our court. 12 312-312-3123. As we go on in this course, we'll learn more strumming patterns, but we have a lot of information already. We've got the four most common chords. We've put them into different orders for a chord progression. And we've got some different strumming patterns, even with different beat counts to practice them with. Before we move on to different chords, get really comfortable with these four. Write your own progressions and try different strumming patterns with them. Mix up the order and see what sounds good. And that will also help you with not only the shapes, but the transitions between the shapes. 10. Changing Between Chords: Speaking of changing between chords, What's the best way to practice that? Because that's oftentimes what people have the most trouble with is putting their fingers in the right place quickly. Well, there are two helpful little tips here. The first is to grab a metronome. This is something that's going to count beats for you at different tempos. You can find a metronome for free online or as an app on your phone. And said it really slowly. Then give yourself two or four beats to play chords nice and slow, slower than you think you need to even. So, we'll play something slow and count 1212 gives us time to get our fingers into the right place. And then slowly speed that metronome up. Very slowly. Our muscle memory will kick in and will get much better at transitioning between chords than if we didn't do that exercise. The other helpful thing when we're playing a chord progression is actually kind of odd. But you can play all of the strings open very quickly without anyone noticing. E.g. let me move from C to G. Two, how about the E minor? Between each of those chords? I'm playing all of the strings open. And I'm doing it really quickly on the last strum of my strumming pattern to give myself time to move my hand where it needs to go. Let me slow down exactly what I was just playing. So again, I'm opening all of them up so I have one strum more worth of time to place my fingers where they need to go. 11. Our Next Chords: We've done a lot of work with just four chord. So maybe it's time to learn for more. This time, we're going to learn both a minor and a D minor and E. You'll notice we already know E minor and D. So now we're learning their counterparts. All of the previous rules or techniques that we've learned also apply to these chords. The only difference with these chords is that they're different shapes. We can do the same strumming patterns and put them into chord progressions with the previous chords we've learned. 12. Am and E: Just like our previous four chords, we're going to take these as 2.2 as well. So in this lesson we're going to learn an a minor and an E chord. Now, a minor is probably the easiest chord we have to learn, and E is probably the most difficult chord we've had to learn yet. So opposite ends of the spectrum here. For an, a minor chord, we're going to have three open strings, much like the sea. But this time we're going to be placing a fret on the fourth string. I'm going to take my middle finger. I'm going to place it on the second fret of the fourth string. Now, my next three strings are open, and that's all there is to it. There's our sad sounding a minor chord. Now, for our E chord, it's a little bit tricky. We need to shape our fingers. And a really interesting way, I'm going to take my middle finger and put it on the fourth fret of the fourth string. Now, my ring finger is going to go on the fourth fret of the third string. And my pinky will go on the fourth fret of the second string. So you'll notice this is kind of so far like a D shape, but with different fingers and slid up by two frets. But we have one more step here. We need to take our first finger and place it all the way on the second fret of the first string. So we have this kind of raised D shape. And our first finger reaching all the way back to the second fret. Now you'll notice with our D, yeah, the second fret. And this open string. So E comes after D. And here we have a d, and we're sliding everything up by two frets to raise it to an E chord. Now, we can take these two chords and kind of integrate them into our old chord progressions. E.g. maybe now I want to play a minor to C, to G, to an E. That's a big jump very quickly. But now we've got a minor to a, C, to a G, to this new E. In the same way you've been doing, practicing chord progressions, making your own. Now, take the new chords we've got and write some songs with them. 13. A and Dm: We have two more chords to learn. In this section, we're doing the D minor and the a. Now let's start with the a because we just did the a minor. The a minor we learned was this shape, right one finger on the second fret of the fourth string. Well, to change it to an a, there's actually only one difference. We need to take our first finger and place it on the first fret of the third string. So instead of this sound, we get major. That's our a chord. Now, it's the same thing with the D. When we're moving from our D major. D minor, there's a OneNote difference, but we have to shift our fingers a little bit to get there. So let's do the D chord that we've got. From here. I'm using my first, second, and third finger and I'm going to change that to my second, third and pinky finger. Same frets, different fingers. And the reason is I need my first finger. See, I'm taking the second fret on the second string, where now the pinky is. I'm going to move it to the first fret. So now I'm playing second fret of the fourth string. Second fret of the third string, first fret of the second string, and still the open first string. So now we've got the a and the D minor. Again, the more chords we know, the more songs will be able to play. When we look chords to our songs, we may have come across a D minor or an, a chord and not quite known what to do. But now at this point, we know exactly what to do because we know those chord shapes. Sometimes memorizing shapes can seem like a grind. But the two things that really helped is remembering that, that the more shapes we know, the more songs will be able to play and continue learning songs. Lookup chords, see if there are songs you love, that there are chords to and making your own. 14. Pick vs. Thumb vs. Finger: Now it's time to talk a little bit about tone. And by tone, I mean how thick and fat are ukulele sounds or how sharp antennae our ukulele sounds. And to do this, there are different methods of strumming, either by holding a pic, which is typically made out of plastic, picking with our first finger and using the fingernail or using the pad of our thumb and the pad of our first finger. Now sometimes we can do a hybrid of all three. But you'll notice as we go through this lesson that the three different methods sound really radically different from one another. Let's start with the plastic pick. Some people like playing their instrument with a pick instead of with their fingers. When we do it that way, we're gonna get a much sharper tone. It's gonna kinda cut through. This is great if we're playing with a band and we need to kinda come to the front of what everybody's playing. So if I've got to pick, I'm going to hold it between my first finger and my thumb. And I'm going to play maybe a G chord. Now you can hear that plastic hitting the strings. It's not bad for the strings, but it is coming through much louder and sharper. Another method is to use the fingernail of our first finger. So when I'm playing, I'm strumming down. And it's going to be a little more muted, a little more rounded of a sound, but still more sharp then if we were to use maybe the pad of the thumb. And then again we've got the pad of the thumb. Now this one hitting the strings, it's probably the most quiet and the most muted. So this is great for really soft songs. Not only as our ukulele quieter, but it's also again more rounded than the sharpness of plastic. And plastic. We can still do our strumming patterns by using the pad of the thumb and the first finger down and up. Or do a hybrid picking method with just the first finger where we've got our fingernail coming down and the pad coming back up. This is probably for me, the most common picking method, but you can do whatever you think sounds best to you. 15. Fingerpicking 101: One of the really nice things you can do on a ukulele is called finger picking. Finger picking is when we use our thumb, first and even second finger to create a picking pattern with our fingers. It's similar to a strumming pattern. But instead of strumming, we're giving each finger a string to hit. It would sound something like this. We're going to do is break down one finger picking pattern that we can use for all of the chords that we've been learning. Now, we're going to use to start the thumb and the first finger, hitting two strings together. I like to do the fourth string and the second string. So I'm coming down on the fourth with my thumb, up on the second with my first finger. I'll practice this may be with a G chord and playing and Z, those end up being the same note that when I take my thumb again and move it from the fourth string to the third string. I'll use my middle finger to grab the first string. So let's pause right there. What we've got so far. Maybe I'll change the angle here that we're going to go back and forth on the two middle strings. So I've played this so far. Now on the two middle strings, I'm gonna go first, thumb, and first. So the first half of that, then the second half. And altogether. Now I can do that finger picking pattern in a chord progression. Maybe I'll move from G to C to a. 16. F, Bm and Cm: We've got two more sets of chords that we're going to learn together. So this is the second to last set. This time through, we're going to learn three courts. We've got an F, a B minor, and a C minor. Let's start with the F chord. Our middle finger will go on the second fret of the fourth string. Now our next string, the third string will be open. Our first finger will go on the first fret, the second string. And finally, the first string here is going to be open. That's a very good happy cord. Are b minor chord is going to be a little bit different. We need to do something called a bar here, which we've never done before. But we're taking our first finger and borrowing it across multiple strings. That's going to make the chords so much easier to play. So I'm going to take my ring finger here and put it on the fourth fret of the fourth string. Same place we started an E chord. But now I'm going to take my first finger. I'm going to bar it across the second fret of the third, second and first string. Some people may find it easier instead of the ring finger to use the pinky. I like using the third finger. So we've got an F, a B minor, and we need a C minor. Now, C minor is similar to the b, but a little bit easier. We've still got the bar, but we don't need that standalone note. Here's what we're doing. We're taking our first finger and borrowing it along the third fret of the third, second, and first string. Our fourth string will be completely open. Now of course, if you'd like to, you can use individual fingers to play each of those notes, sort of like with a D chord. But instead of making each finger fit on its own fret, I find it easier to just bar. So that's our F. B minor. C minor. 17. Sharp and Flat Chords: Now, occasionally when you're looking at chords, you may see something like a hashtag symbol or a squished up B. Now, those are sharps and flats. And so how do we play sharp and flat chords? Well, sharps are when we take a chord and we move it up by one frame. And flats are the opposite. They are when we take a chord and we move them down by one fret. We may need to learn some specific shapes for these chords when we come across them. But we're also going to look at a method right now to quickly get to those types of courts. E.g. let's say we come across a C sharp minor chord. Now, it seems complicated, but we're just taking a C minor chord and moving it up by one fret to make it sharp. So here's the C minor chord we had just learned. We were borrowing. We were playing the third fret of the top three strings. We're going to move it up a fret. I'm going to move my bar, but we come into an issue. Oh, that doesn't sound quite as good. It's because we had an open string in the chord. Now we've moved the rest of the chord, but we haven't moved that open string. And so we have two options. We can, first of all emit the open string. We could just play the three that we're holding down. Now. We can do that either by picking carefully or by using our fingers to touch the strings. We're not playing without holding them down. That'll kind of mute whatever strings we don't want. The second method is a little trickier, but will give us more of a full nice depth sound to it. And that's that we have to move the open string up a fret as well, which might create some unique shapes. See, I've got my C minor. I'm going to move it up a fret, but I need to reach the first fret of this string now, and that's a far stretch. So we need to think creatively. The best way to do that might be two bar. Our pinky. Again, flat chords are the opposite. So if I've got a D chord, and I need to play a D flat. Well, I have two options. I can move my core down, but are open string, we can't really move down. There's nowhere left to go. So I could omit that string entirely. Or I could learn the unique shape for that cord. It's a little out of the scope of this course, but maybe in an intermediate course. 18. Shuffle Strumming: Let's stop for a moment with the chords that we know. And let's look at a couple more strumming patterns. I'm sure we've used up the ones we already know that we're going to look at a shuffle for both four beats and three beats. For this one, we need to sub divide our beats. We're going to add a little beat in-between with. And. So instead of counting 123 For, we would count 1.2 and 3.4 and 1.2. Now, for our shuffle, we're going to stroke down on all of the numbers and up on all of the ends. So if I've got something like G to C, I'm going to count 1.2 and 3.4 and 1.2 and 3.4. And when you speed up, this can be a lot of fun going back and forth quickly. It's the same thing for three beats except you let go over the four. And it's, and so this would be 1.2 and 3.1 and 2.3. And now it doesn't have to be so rigid. You could also add kind of a swing feel into it instead of one and 2.3. And you could go 1.2 and 3.1 and 2.3, kind of a swing almost ballroom feel. 1.2 and 3.1 and 2.3. 19. Fm, Gm, B: These are our final grouping of chords. Now, we've got an F minor, G minor, and a b. As you're looking up popular songs, these might be the chords that you come across the least often, but that doesn't mean that you won't come across them, so don't bow out just yet. Chances are, you're going to find a song you're desperate to play. They're going to use these chords. So Let's start with our F minor chord. We know the F shape. So what we're going to do is we're going to take our second fret on the fourth string. We're going to move it down by a fret. So I'm actually going to use my first finger to do that. On the first fret of the fourth string. We know that the next string is open. And I'll use my middle finger to hit the same first fret on the second string. But we have a problem. When we played our f, Our fourth string, and our top string. We're the same note. So now we've lowered one of them. But our top string, our first string, is the same. So this is the first case where to make a chord from major to minor, we need to move two notes because they are the same note. So here I'm going to move it down by a fret. So I've got first, open first. Now I'm going to take my pinky and grabbed the third fret. That's not lowering the note by one, but it is changing the note to either 13 or five, if you remember one of our first classes. So now I've got first fret, open string, first fret. And the pinky on that third string. Next is a G minor chord. Now, for the G, we had our G up here. By now, we should know that chord pretty well. The note that I'm changing is on the first string. And I'm moving it down by one. So the way I'm gonna do this is I'm going to shift some of my fingers here. I'm gonna change my fingering. So I'm grabbing the second fret of the third string with my middle finger. The third fret of the second string with my third finger. And that leaves my first finger open to grab the first fret of the first string. So I have G major and minor. Finally, we have a B chord. Now, if we remember, our B minor shape was the one that we add to bar. The note we're moving is on the third string and we're moving it up by one. Let's take a look at each of these notes on their own. Again, I'm going to grab the fourth fret of the fourth string with my ring finger. My middle finger this time is going to grab the third fret of the third string. And then my first finger, instead of borrowing, three strings, will borrow the second fret of the first and second string. So I've got an F minor, G minor and a B. Again, all of the chords that we've learned are going to be the most fun in the context of a song, whether it's one that you wrote or one that you find. So maybe you can look up, find a song with a G minor chord in it and see if there are any songs with a G minor chord that you know and enjoy playing. If you can't find one or you'd rather write one, then make your own chord progressions with these new chords. Don't forget the old chords that we know to get the most practice out of them. 20. Finding Chords to Your Favorite Songs: Now, obviously this lesson is a little bit different. We're at the computer and I want to show you how to find the chords to any song that you're interested in. And honestly, it's really quite simple. We're going to start by typing in the name of a song, and it always helps to type in the name of the band as well. Now, after that, we're just going to look up the word chords. That's all there is to it. And there's a lot of different sites that are going to give you chords. I personally like ultimate guitar. The reason being is they're going to show you all the chords at the top, not only for guitar and piano, but our Ukulele. So if we click the ukulele button, we're going to see each of those chords. We can scroll down and see the chords on top of the word that we want that chord to be played with. So G chord would be played over, find, d would be played over times. Now, there are a couple of options here to really make this Shine. First of all, we can scroll over any chord and get the shape in case we've forgotten. We could also go ahead and click the simplify button. That's going to take away anything that we may not be familiar with yet. You'll notice when it was unchecked, we had E minor seven, C major seven, and C6. We haven't covered those. Now. There are two things that we're lacking. First of all, these sites try to do the best job possible of putting the cord above the word like we mentioned. But they don't always do it perfectly. So it's really helpful to know the song in your head and try to identify where the chord changes, listen to the background music and see where it changes. The other thing we don't have the same problem. The other side of the coin. We don't have how long to play each chord. We only have the word that it's over. So again, knowing the song is huge to be able to play it accurately. At the top of the page, many of the songs will show you the strumming pattern down and up. But not all of the songs have that as a feature. Now, this is a really great way to look up your song, see the chords for it, get reminders of chord shapes and begin playing. 21. Congratulations!: Congratulations on making it to the end of this course. By now, we should have a pretty good understanding of basic ukulele chords and how we use them in chord progressions to play songs. Now, as a final project, we're going to do just that. We're going to choose a song or write a song and then play it. Now, you can share this either as a video or audio or if you're a little recording shy, you can always write down the song each shows or wrote what chords were in it, and then how you did with it. If you have any questions, you can always ask me directly at Jacob at lamb lessons.com. I love hearing from students who have watched through these courses. Or you can visit me at limb lessons.com. Congratulations, and I'll see you in the next course.