Whoo!!!, Too Many Chord Shapes to Memorize!!!

Congrats on making it through three months of A Chord A Day. You should know a lot about plenty of chords at this time.

Hopefully, that is something you might have realized three months into the Chord a Day saga, that – After a core set of Basic Open Position Chords , a few Movable Form Chords , and Jazz Chords — it's learning how chords are created and how to derive new chords from your core set of ever-expanding existing chords.

Next Steps … on to Your 4-part Jazz Chords

Series History

It never was the intention to do a whole year's worth of chords. Started in 2013, I'm surprised it went three months (January, February, and March). And, in 2020 videos for each chord for 91 videos were added. 2023 brought the addition of the common harmonic functions for each chord. The three months of the series covered the Basic Open Position Chords , Movable Form Chords , a few Free Form Chords , and a start of 4-part Jazz Chords in March. Quite a series for reviewing your chords and learning a lot of new chords.

Although I did miss one really popular chord that should have be included. It's a basic 4-part chord that I was shocked I had missed. Here is a hint: '5500'. I did add it as The Forgotten Chord below. @svg('solid/arrow-circle-down', 'text-brand-400')

It's time to get out and start using all these new chords and really learn how they are used and what you can do with them.

See You Next Year!!!

So what's next? Here are a series of lessons to get you going towards that ultimate goal of being to play any chord you ever need. Or, at least say that you can create any chord you ever need.

• Basic Open Position Chords – These are the core set of chords that the January covered. These are the basic chords that every ukulele player should know.
• Movable Chords – movable form of the open position chords
• Jazz Chords – these chords all start with the Big Six core chords.
• Free Form Chords – this is where you know how chords are created, constructed and used and don't fit into one of the above categories. With a low G, C tuning, these chords are a kin to closed voicing chords, where all the notes are within one octave - just like most of the chords with a high G, C tuning.

The Forgotten Chord(s)

Fmaj7

Fmaj7 — The Forgotten Chord. Fmaj7 should have been in January or February somewhere. I actually play this chord a lot, and it's a big part of my and most players chord vocabulary.