Updated and expanded ukulele chord diagrams collection!
I first published this collection of free ukulele chord diagrams back in 2014, and at the time, it was the third set of free music teacher clipart resources I had shared behind the Big Notation Library and the Free Guitar Chord Image Library.
All of these free clipart libraries were designed for music teachers to use when creating their own resources from scratch and have been very popular.
Just like the free notation clipart library and the guitar chord library, you can use these ukulele chord diagrams when creating your own music teaching materials inside your presentation software (Google Slides, Powerpoint, Keynote), in Google Docs or Microsoft Word or in Canva.
If you’d like some step-by-step instructions about creating your resources from scratch, you can take a look at my previous post Learn Just 5 Tips To Create Your Own Awesome Music Resources or take my online Canva course (Create Beautiful Teaching Resources with Canva) which is available in the Midnight Music Membership Community.
Improvements and additions to the ukulele chord diagrams collection
The original clipart collection of ukulele chord diagrams consisted of 22 chords. This NEW and EXPANDED collection includes a total of 75 ukulele chord diagrams.
Also included is a blank fretboard image so you can create your own diagrams if you wish. It’s also useful to give to students so they can write out their own chord diagrams.
All of the chord diagrams have a transparent background so you can use them on coloured documents.
And most importantly, these ones have better cropping and alignment! When I redid these chord diagrams I made a special effort to crop and align them consistently so you should find that they are MUCH easier to line up and space out evenly in your teaching materials.
A few examples of use
Can I use these images for commercial purposes?
Yes, as long as you credit Midnight Music in your product details and link back to this blog as your source. However, you are not allowed to share individual image files or this library in its entirety. In other words, you may use the files and images in a design, but you may not share the files themselves.
Educators, you may share these files with your students, but it must be protected behind a login of some kind, such as a classroom portal or via email. Please do not post these files by themselves on a publicly accessible website or platform.
Want more resources for music tech teachers?
Hello! I’m Katie Argyle – an Australian music technology trainer and consultant with a passion for helping music teachers through my business Midnight Music.
I’m a qualified teacher but no, I don’t currently teach in a school. I help teachers through my online professional development space – the Midnight Music Community – where there are tutorial videos, courses, links and downloadable resources.
I like to focus on easy ways to incorporate technology into what you are already doing in your music curriculum through a range of creative projects. I also run live workshops and have presented at countless conferences and other music education events.
If you want simple, effective ideas for using technology in music education, I would LOVE to help you inside the Midnight Music Community.
46 Comments
Katie,
Thank you for your generosity. I have downloaded the Ukulele Chord Diagrams for use in a ukulele group planned for our local neighbourhood centre.
Kind regards,
Delphine
You’re welcome Delphine. I hope you find them useful 🙂
Obrigado por compartilhar!
Estevão, Brasil
Wow!!! Just Wow!! Thank you 🙂
🙂 You’re very welcome Don!
LOVE these! I’m tired of writing them on the white board every day…I’ve printed out the ones I’ve taught so far (one per sheet) and will have them up on the wall tomorrow. I’d really like to see Bb, B7, the two-finger D7 (2020) and the one-finger A7 (0100) added to this collection. Muchas gracias!
Scott Gifford, uke teacher in Petaluma, CA and for the Sonoma County Library system
Hi Scott – thanks! Happy you’re finding them useful. I’ll see what I can do about making the extra symbols.
Any chance there will be a set for Baritone ukulele?
Although I’d love to add that to the list, each set is quite time-consuming and you’re the first (and only) person to ask for it! If there was a huge demand, I may reconsider!
Aren’t guitar chords the same (minus two string)?
Chris M. NLUG
Hi Chris – no ukulele chords are quite different because the strings are tuned to different pitches.
Katie: I believe Chris’ question had to do with the baritone Uke, which, being tuned to the same notes as guitar, has the same chord names, and yes, minus the 2 lower bass strings.
Thank you so much! I am actually teaching myself, but this is still super useful!
Thanks Claudia!
Aloha Katie, I just wanted to say mahalo (thank you) for sharing the Ukulele chord library. My husband and I have been teaching a free ukulele class in our community for the last 18 years. We’ve recently saved enough to purchase Photoshop to learn to do this on our own but between work, family and all other distractions, have been unable to get to it. Your UCL has saved us time and money. When I do have some extra funds, I would be happy to donate to you so that you can continue to bless others.
Thank you for your time, talent and generosity.
Thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to let me know.
Thank you so much For your generosity Katie.. I and many other students in our Uku group are visual learners….. these cords are perfect to add to our personal music sheets. Merci, from Canada…
You’re welcome! 🙂
Many thanks Katie, I’ve just found this resource. I’ve just transposed a song to perform at my local uke group and now I can pop these on my word doc. I used the blank one to make Bb (though I found it a bit tricky with my limited software options but hashed it together). Thank you so much for the collection – I’ve downloaded the guitar and the general library as well for future use!
Thanks Sid. I’m glad you’ve found it useful!
So there will be no copyright issues if I use this in a video tutorial?
That’s correct Lauren – happy for you to use the chord images in a video tutorial. If you’re able to credit me and/or link back to my website I’d appreciate it.
Hi Katie these are great. Is there a way to print them with several chords on one A4 page rather than sep pages? Traci
Hi Traci! The idea is that the images are imported into a Word doc (or Google doc or Powerpoint) so that you can arrange them however you need – then you can print it out. They’re all separate so that everyone has the flexibility to create a chord chart for whichever combination of chords they need. Hope that helps. I’m happy to explain further (and/or make a little tutorial video) inside the community if you’d like.
Thank you so much for all your hard work!
You’re welcome Tina 🙂
Thank you very much from Málaga, Spain!
Hello! I am currently developing an online blog, aiming to teach my readers how to play the ukulele in 5 weeks, as a college project. Would I be able to use these diagrams in the blog, please? I would be so very grateful!
Thank you very much!
Yes – they’re free for you to use however you like 🙂
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Thank you! I’m about to start teaching my niece voice+ukulele online (through ZOOM), and these will help out a TON. I’m excited to check out your other offerings, too! Peace from Minneapolis, MN.
You’re welcome Nicole. Hope it goes well. I use Zoom a lot too – great tool!
Thanks Katie,
I live in Germany and I am a new music teacher. I was often searching for such images, that I can use, especially for a test or a worksheet. So I‘ve already had a look on your wonderful, and great images. I can‘t say how much I thank you.
Also I found out, that I can unzip the Material with my IPad, using an app named „Documents“, so may be it is useful even for other people.
Yours Nicole
Thanks Nicole!
Thank you so much, this is used for creating a songbook of songs written by kids at a nonprofit in Oakland
You’re welcome! Glad it was a help
Is there a way to reduce the size the guitar chord images. I want to use them to add to the margin of a song sheet.
If you’re unable to drag the corners and resize them to a small enough size, then you can easily resize the images using image editing software. You might have something on your computer that does that already (for instance, on a Mac you can use Preview), but there are also plenty of online tools that will let you reduce the size of images. One example is https://resizeimage.net/ but there are many other software tools that will do it too.
Thank you so much for your guitar chord symbols. They are going to really help as we teach guitar all across the world during covid.
You’re the best!!!!!
You’re welcome! Glad they are useful.
What is it about Bb Chords?
The most used chord in jazz/swing/military/brass bands.
Sadly missing in your Uke collection. Time to update I feel 🙂
I have it on my list of things to add! Thanks for the reminder.
This is awesome! I’m doing a teaching series online and it will speed up my editing process immensely! Have a great day!
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[…] After I shared a free collection of notation images a couple of months ago, a music teacher at a P-9 school here in Melbourne – suggested that I create a collection of guitar chord diagrams. He spends quite a bit of time creating lead sheets and presentation-style documents that feature guitar chord diagrams alongside lyrics. He also suggested I include ukulele chord diagrams as well, but I’ll have to save that for next time! [UPDATE: you can find the ukulele chord diagrams here] […]
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