The Ultimate Ukulele Chord Book

This book can be used as a learning, reference or practice tool to explore new chords and shapes to enhance your playing.

Starting from the most basic triad chords to the more advanced extended chords such as ninths, elevenths and thirteenths, this book uses the CAGFD system to help you play all the possible shapes over the fretboard. All the shapes in this book are movable to any key you desire. There are over 180 chord shapes that can be moved to any of the 12 keys creating over 2600 possibilities! For each of the chord types there are five different shapes connecting up the fretboard that you can learn and experiment with - but you don't need to understand music theory to use this book!

Put together by musician Karl Golden, who has been playing professionally for over 10 years and is now a big influencer in the YouTuber community, with well over 50 million views on his content.

This book contains over 180 useful chord shapes and that's just for one key! Moving these shapes to all twelve keys creates over 2600 chords! Using the CAGFD system every chord family has five recommended shapes that connect across the whole fretboard.

This book shows you how to experiment with your own chord progressions. With the method in this book you can write songs using every possible chord combination. You don't need to understand music theory to apply this method!

There are exercises to help you remember chords and with every chord family there is scale recommendations that will work well improvising over that particular chord.

Practice Diary

20 week practice diary to keep track of your progress.

Blank Charts & Tabs

This book included four pages of blank charts and four pages of blank tabs to make notes, alterations and your own shape ideas.

• Major Triads
• Minor Triads
• Diminished Triads
• Augmented Triads
• Major Chords
• Minor Chords
• Diminished Chords
• Augmented Chords
• Sus Two Chords
• Sus Four Chords
• Major Six Chords
• Minor Seven Chords
• Dominant Seven Chords
• Half-Diminished Chords
• Fully Diminished Seven Chords
• Minor Major Seven Chords
• Major Nine Chords
• Minor Nine Chords
• Dominant Nine Chords
• Major Eleven Chords
• Dominant Eleven Chords
• Major Thirteen Chords
• Minor Thirteen Chords
• Dominant Thirteen Chords
• Dominant Seven Sharp Five Chords
• Dominant Seven Sharp Nine Chords
• Open Chords
• Power Chords (Is this really a chord?)