

If the bass note is part of the chord, you can ignore it and play the usual chord shape. So, what do you do on the uke when you come across slash chords? As there are only four strings, we have to take the notes wherever we can find them. It’s often not the case on the ukulele that the lowest note is the root. So it could be played like this on guitar: In the example D/F#, the chord is D and the lowest note is F#. The first part of the slash chord is the chord played and the second part is the lowest note. Slash chords are used to indicate where the lowest note is not the root of the chord. On the guitar, it’s almost always the case that the lowest note played is the root note (the note the chord is named after). If you’ve done this a lot, you’ll have come across – and possibly confused by – chords that look like this: D/F#. Despite the increasing amount of tab and chords for ukulele on the internet, we still have to rely on guitar chords for most songs.
