Trip To Paris - Ukulele Chords - Learn To Play Amazing Grace With Tablature

We will use tabs so you will not need to know sheet music notation. You will learn to sing Amazing Grace with your own ukulele accompaniment in the key of C-major.

It's okay as long as you are not playing together with another instrument. Some people don't care how they tune their ukulele as long as the strings are tuned together. First you will have to take a look at the way you have tuned your ukulele.

There it is, right! C D E F G A. If you can find middle C on a piano you can play the notes up to A. In order to play the chords in C-major we presupposes that the you first string is tuned to an A, but.

With the tab notation we will use it will look like this: We will first take a look at the C-major chord.

C-major: 0/4 0/3 0/2 3/1

The digit after the slash shows you which string to play. The digit before the slash indicates the fret to press down. Now you will learn to interpret this notation.

Here is F-major: To play the chords to the first line of lyrics you will have to learn one more chord. Press down the third fret on string one, 3/1 means.

F-major: 2/4 0/3 1/2 0/1

With these two chords we can play the first line of lyrics:

How (F)sweet the (C)sound a-(C)mazing Grace,

Another way to notate the chord progression to play will look like this: The chords to play are written before the syllable in the text where you are to strum it.

C / / C / / F / / C / /

Strum once on every chord name and once more on the same chord for every following slash.

Here is G7: For the next line we need a third chord.

G7: 0/4 2/3 1/2 2/1

Time for the next line:

That (C)saved a wretch like (G7)me

Or written like a chord progression:

C / / C / / G7 / / G7 / /

We will take the two last lines together as you now know how to read the chords:

But (F)now am (C)found i (C)once was lost,

But (G7)now I (C)see was (C)blind,

And in ordinary chord notation:

C / / C / / F / / C / /

C / / G7 / / C / / C / /

I suggest that you work on the art of changing from one chord to another by choosing for exampel C and F. To make music of the song with ukulele accompaniment it is important to be able to change between chords smoothly.

To get to G7 you can slide your ring finger to fret two on the first string. To change from C to G7 I suppose that you play the C chord with your left hand ring finger. Strum once on every chord and change to the next one until your fingers obey your command.

After that you only have to place your left hand middle finger on the third string and your index on your second string.