![]() Like my previous charts, the first two are each a single letter-sized page (8.5″ x 11″) and contain 120 chords each. Ukulele Chord Chart (Baritone Slack Key DGBD) So I bit the bullet and using the books along with the wonderful ChordFind, I created a new set of diagrams for both ukes tuned GCEG (GCEA with the A string slacked) and DGBD (DGBE with the E string slacked): ![]() I bought Ondrej Sarek’s “Open Tunings for Ukulele”, which finally had legible GCEG diagrams, but so very few of them. Not a bad book, but it didn’t even have any chord charts! I bought David Heaukulani’s “Ukulele Slack Key”, which had quite a set of chords in the back, but unfortunately they’re really hard to read- they look like they were photocopied, resized and run through the washing machine. I turned to books, and bought Mark Kailana Nelson’s “The Uke Buke… Learn to Play Slack Key Style ‘Ukulele”. I figured somebody must have done it by now, but all anyone says is “look at slack-key guitar, ignore two strings and transpose” or “just move your 1st string fingering up two frets”. See, I’ve wanted to try my hand at slack-key ukulele for some time now, but search as I might, I haven’t been able to find a single chord chart online for GCEG, or taropatch tuning. To be honest though, my real goal wasn’t to create yet another set of standard charts- what I really wanted was a set of charts for slack-key, or open tuned, ukulele. ![]() I did so partially to make a set of charts that fit my own requirements, but also as a trial run for the software I’d written to generate arbitrary chord diagrams. A couple of weeks ago, I released my very own set of standard GCEA and baritone DGBE ukulele chord sheets.
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