Getting Started with `Ukulele - Lesson Five

For Lesson Five we'll add and build on the lesson and material from lesson four.

Author(s): Curt Sheller Publisher: Curt Sheller Publications Code: ULB01-wk-5

Main Category: Basics Main Instrument: Ukulele

Categories: Chords, Fingerboard, Strums, Technique, Intervals, Progressions

2026-08-23

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Getting Started with `Ukulele - Lesson Five

For Lesson Five we'll add and build on the lesson and material from lesson four.

In lesson five you’ll learn to following:

Learning the Fingerboard, Secondary Key Fret (10)
Four Finger, Single Note, Single String Fingering Drill Variations
Secondary Chords - Key of D (Em, F#m and Bm)
Common Chord Progressions for D Major
Core Strumming Pattern Three
Understanding Interval Inversion

NOTE: Although these lessons are presented as a weekly series, you can and should take as long as you like to master each week's lesson as there is a lot of material in each lesson in the series. Tuns out the understanding part is the easy part. All the hard work is in getting your hands to co-operate.

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The Fingerboard - Secondary Key Fret (10)

The second of the two secondary key frets, fret (10).

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Lesson: Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Fret (10)
Lesson: Learning the Fingerboard, C Tuning - Derived Frets

From this week’s fret (10) F A# D G you get fret (11) F# B D# G# and the fret (9) E A C# F#.

With the key and secondary frets and their derived higher and lower frets, this is the whole fingerboard.

Technique - Four Finger - Four Note Fingering Drills, Variations

Taking the four note single string fingering drills explore this lesson on create a simple variation.

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Lesson: Fingering Gymnastics
Lesson: Four Finger, Single Note, Single String Fingering Drill Variations

Secondary Chords - Key of D

Continuing with the common of key of D major and adding to the primary chords D, G, A and A7 from last week’s lessons. We can add the secondary chords Em, F#m, and Bm.