Ukulele Quick Reference Guide

A plain-English ukulele quick reference for new players and the grown-ups teaching them: the parts, the strings and tuning, how to read a chord diagram, a 20-chord chart, the fretboard map, chord families, tab, strumming patterns and a short history, each fact with its source.

What’s inside:

- How to use the guide

- The parts of a ukulele

- The four strings and how to check them

- How to read a chord diagram

- Chord chart (two pages): major and minor chords, then seventh chords

- The fretboard: every note on the first seven frets

- Chord families: three chords that go together

- How to read tab, with a traditional tune

- Four strumming patterns

- A little history, with one open question

- Checklist: what I can do

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 14 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from Britannica and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (checked 3 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page. Where the evidence gives no single answer, what each source says is shown with its source.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, chord diagrams, tab and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs, not copies of any real instrument, book, chord chart or design. Not affiliated with Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Smithsonian Institution, the Department for Education, any music school, or any maker or seller of ukuleles. Their names are used only to identify the sources we quote.

Licence: personal use. Print as many copies as you need for yourself and your household. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For club, school or commercial use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind ukulele.learntoplay.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.