If you’d like to try your hand at baritone ukulele, but find the idea of learning a whole new set of chords daunting, try thinking of transposing from standard (GCEA) to baritone (DGBE) this way:

• There are only 7 note names: A B C D E F G … A B C etc.
• All of these can be sharped # or flatted b, but E#, B#, Cb & Fb almost never seen as they are the same as F, C, B & E respectively.
• The C chord shape is the G chord shape on a baritone.
• This means any chord on standard will be three steps down … C (skip B & A) becomes G.

Thus:

D shape becomes A.
E shape becomes B.
F shape becomes C … etc.

If you add a sharp or flat …
Db becomes Ab.
F# becomes C#.

Hope that helps!

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