5 distinct chords · 68 changes · 3:28 long
Timeline
Chord timeline
Chords in this song
- F♯
- C♯
- G♯m
- B
- G♯
What you are playing
Chords for It´s Ok If You Forget Me, laid out across its 3:28 exactly where they fall. Most of it sits in F♯ major. It leans on barre chords — with a capo on fret 4 the same song becomes D A Em G E, every one of them an open shape. Every one of its 5 chords is a plain triad, so three notes under the right hand covers the whole song.
Play it in another key
The same song, moved. Every row is It´s Ok If You Forget Me shifted by that many semitones — useful when the recording sits too high or too low for your voice. The chords keep their relationships, so the song is unchanged apart from its pitch.
| Shift | Key | Chords |
|---|---|---|
| C♯ major | C♯G♯D♯mF♯D♯ | |
| D major | DAEmGEall open | |
| D♯ major | D♯A♯FmG♯F | |
| E major | EBF♯mAF♯ | |
| F major | FCGmA♯G | |
| F♯ major | F♯C♯G♯mBG♯ | |
| G major | GDAmCAall open | |
| G♯ major | G♯D♯A♯mC♯A♯ | |
| A major | AEBmDB | |
| A♯ major | A♯FCmD♯C | |
| B major | BF♯C♯mEC♯ | |
| C major | CGDmFD |
On a guitar there is a shortcut in one direction: transpose down by n and put a capo on fret n, and you are back at the original pitch while playing the easier shapes. That is what the capo line above is doing.
