Chords 16: A7

As you can see in the diagram below, this is not exactly a complicated chord. So you would be perfectly justified in asking why we do not learn it immediately after C major or perhaps A minor , since only one position needs to be fretted. If you look through the chord videos, you will see that the fifth blog post is about using C major, A minor, F major and G major together. Of those four chords, G major is really the one beginners struggle with, but once their hand gets used to it, they already have four chords with which they can play a great many songs. A7 did not really fit into that progression, and I also wanted to work through most of the major and minor chords first. That is how such an easy chord ended up being taught only now. After all the chords we have already learned, however, it takes about ten seconds to master:

But to stop things being quite that easy, we will also explore farther up the ukulele neck. In the higher register, using the same idea as D7, barre the ninth fret and place the middle finger on the first string at the tenth fret; this gives us another A7. There is actually another A7 voicing between these two as well, but we will save that one for a later blog post.

So here is A7: