Blank ukulele chord charts

Sheets of empty chord boxes sized for ukulele — four strings, four frets, with room to name each shape.

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Opens with these settings already loaded. Change anything you like, then download as PDF, PNG or SVG.

Four strings, four frets

Ukulele shapes almost all sit within the first four frets, and the instrument has four strings, so the diagrams are squarer and smaller than guitar ones. That means more fit on a page — five across is comfortable, where guitar wants four. The generator opens here with the instrument set to ukulele; switch it to guitar and the same boxes redraw with six strings.

Reentrant tuning changes the picture

Standard ukulele tuning is reentrant: the fourth string is tuned high, not low, so the strings do not run low-to-high across the diagram the way guitar strings do. Chord diagrams still show the physical string order rather than pitch order. It catches out guitarists picking up a ukulele, and it is worth noting on your sheets if you are teaching.

Building a chord vocabulary

The fastest way to learn is to write out the four or five chords in a song on one page and keep it on the stand. Shapes learned in the context of a song stick; shapes learned from a chord dictionary generally do not.

Printing it accurately

This only measures correctly if your printer doesn't rescale the page. In the print dialog set Scale: 100% — not "Fit to page" or "Shrink oversized pages". If you're not sure it worked, print the calibration page, measure the ruler on it with a real ruler, and it will tell you exactly what your printer is doing to the page.