Four ukulele shapes are enough to start: C, F, G and Am. The song page draws them. This guide only tells you which pages use those letters.
Ukulele shapes are not guitar shapes with fewer strings. Read the ukulele diagram, not the guitar one, when the ukulele is in your hands.
A small instrument still wants a slow tempo. The chord is small. The change still takes time.
Ode to Joy is C, G, Am and F. Those are the four shapes, in one tune. Start here if you want a page that matches the set exactly.
The Water Is Wide is C, F, G and Am. Same four letters, another order. Play Joy, then this page, and keep the grips.
Camptown Races is C, F and G. Am can rest. Three shapes is a fair first sitting if four feels like a lot.
Are You Sleeping is C and G7. G7 is not plain G. Use the diagram. Two names is a gentle warm-up before the four.
Learn C, then F. That change shows up everywhere. Then add G. Then add Am.
Use the Chord player online and tap only those four. Sing nothing until the changes are early.
The Four Chords is a four-chord loop you can play in C. It will not match every song. It will keep your hand moving.
Ten slow minutes beat a fast hour that keeps missing F. Stop when the hand tenses. Come back tomorrow at the same tempo.
C major is the home of Ode to Joy in this book. F major makes F feel like home. G major makes G feel like home. A minor makes Am feel like home.
If the printed key is high for your voice, move the key chip. The shapes on a ukulele may change with the letters. Read the new diagrams. Do not keep the old grips out of habit.
Amazing Grace is a guitar-friendly three-chord hymn in G, C and D. D is outside these four ukulele shapes. Use it later, or transpose and read the new drawings.
The Metronome with chords keeps the changes honest. Set it under the printed tempo. Land the new chord on the click, not after it.