Order of Sharps & Flats for Ukulele

Hello Friends, and welcome back to Ukulele Classroom. When you play a major scale going from the notes C to D, this is a tone. A tone is two frets away.

When you make a note sharp, you go up a semi-tone, or a half tone. This is one fret up. When you make a note flat, you go down one fret. It is as simple as that.

The chromatic scale in this video is played only on the third C string.

Open position, play the open C string then fingers 1, 2 and 3. It's all on the same string. Move up to the fourth postion (4th fret) and play all fingers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Then move up to the eighth position (8th fret) and play all four fingers again. You can finish on the high C.

This chromatic scale is the original scale. There are only 12 notes in music. From this scale we get the major scale. A major scale can start from any of these 12 notes. This is where we get the 12 key signatures.

Memorize the order of sharps and flats.

Good work! I'm not messing around here. This is serious ukulele music theory. Really glad you stopped by. See you in the next video.