Jingle Bells is one of the most popular secular Christmas songs in the world. You will learn the chords to the song and also to play the melody in this ukulele lesson! I will show you how to play the song by using ukulele tablature. Tablature is a music notational system that shows you where to put your fingers on your ukulele in order to play melodies and chords. The most common type of tablature notation or tabs uses lines that represent the strings and numbers on the lines to show which frets to press down. I will use another type of tab notation that I call number tabs. Why number tabs? 1. Number tabs work better on article sites and will not be distorted if the fonts are changed. 2. Number tabs makes the information accessible to visually impaired readers using braille. I will not use lines to represent the strin guitar songs gs but instead use numbers for both strings and frets this way: fret/string This means that the first number will tell you which fret to press down and the number after the slash which string to use. 3/1 for example means: Press down the third fret on the first string! 0/1 means, play the first string without pressing down a fret! This is called to play an open string. The first string is the bottom string when you play the uke the ordinary way. Here are the first chord, C-major, that we will use in this song: C: 0/4 0/3 0/2 3/1 In this chord you can see that the only string to press down is the first string but you will play all four strings together. When you play this chord you should strum the strings from the fourth down to the first string with your right hand thumb or your index finger or in some other way.
