# Learn Ukulele — Notes on the neck

> Interactive page: [`notes.html`](notes.html)

Four strings, twelve frets, seven letters. Name the open strings, walk the naturals up each one, see the same notes stacked into four first-position scales, then find every place one letter lives. A movable chord is named after the note under one finger — this is the map that makes [barre](barre.md) and [movable shapes](movable.md) make sense.

Note names sit under each TAB (**A on top**, then E, C, G). How to read it: [Foundations · TAB](foundations.md).

**Sources:** standard open-position reading for four-string ukulele (GCEA, re-entrant G) · method-book practice of naming each fret before playing it.

## Every string, nut to fret 12

**Open strings** — G (re-entrant) · C (lowest) · E · A, then back down. Say the name before the attack lands.

**Natural notes on every string** — whole steps sit two frets apart; B–C and E–F are the half steps (one fret). Walk each string 0–12. Soprano and concert necks usually stop near 12–15 — learn 0–12 first.

## First-position scale walks

On ukulele these are open-position walks across GCEA — not guitar CAGED boxes. Move the same idea up the neck on [Movable shapes](movable.md).

1. C major · first position
2. G major · first position
3. F major · first position
4. A minor · first position

## Find every natural

Pick one letter. Say it before you play. Landmarks: open strings, fret 5, fret 7, fret 12 (the octave of each open string). The page walks every C, D, E, F, G, A and B in frets 0–12.

**Quick quiz** — hear a note in frets 0–5 and name it.

## Ready when

Move on when all of these are true on a normal day, not your best one:

- You can name the four open strings and any fret 0–5 without counting from the nut.
- You can find every C (or any letter you are asked for) in frets 0–12.
- You can play one first-position scale while saying the names.