Six months after meeting my first ukulele, I now have three. I am most especially fond of my low-G tuned tenor ukulele; by far the prettiest. Every other Sunday I join a group of lovely people to play and sing every kind of music, from ballads to prog-rock. While I’m really not very good, in that happy crowd it doesn’t really matter. Everyone’s just there to have fun.
However . . . while strumming chords is great, I want to learn more more. While ukulele TAB is easy to follow, a lot of music isn’t in that format, and even less TAB exists that makes use of the slightly wider range that a Low G tuning gives. I have been wrangling with simple traditional musical notation so that I can pick out melodies as well as play the chords.
I can vaguely figure out the basic notes, but as soon as I tried to decipher music with multiple sharps or flats, my brain quietly melted. Mysteriously, although I looked, I couldn’t find this information written down in a way I could use with a ukulele. Google searches found just very simple diagrams for just C Major (no flats or sharps), and very complicated instructions for proper music students (no pictures), and nothing in between.
So here: my best effort at writing down the basic flats and sharps and how to pluck ’em on my ukulele. I’m finding it useful, I hope you do too. If you have a non-low G tuned uke (ie, your g string is tuned higher than the c-string, as is the case in most small ukes), just start from the first c. These jpgs, should be high enough resolution to print out at A4 or A3.
A Little Art 
These charts are most helpful. Thanks.
Dare I be cheeky enough to ask if you would attempt the same but up to say fret 12? Please>
Many thanks
Ahh, if I hadn’t changed computers and lost the original files, I would’ve. But sorry, you’ll have to draw up you own! And really, it was making the chart that was helpful for me, fixing the physical sounds and fingering to the abstract notation for my fumbling brain.
Fantastic!!! I have been straining my brain trying to do this for high G uke. I thought you were in Wellington, Salop at first – I would have fired up the uke-mobile and an driven all night to buy you a pint!
And gladly I would have enjoyed that pint too 🙂
I’m a total newbie: would the chords be the same for low g?
Oh yes, just the g is just tuned, well, as a lower g