5 distinct chords · 91 changes · 4:46 long
Chord timeline
Chords in this song
- B♭
- F
- Gm
- E♭
- Cm
What you are playing
Chords for A Thousand Years, laid out across its 4:46 exactly where they fall. Most of it sits in A♯ major. It leans on barre chords — with a capo on fret 3 the same song becomes G D Em C Am, 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 A Thousand Years 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 |
|---|---|---|
| F major | FCDmA♯Gm | |
| F♯ major | F♯C♯D♯mBG♯m | |
| G major | GDEmCAmall open | |
| G♯ major | G♯D♯FmC♯A♯m | |
| A major | AEF♯mDBm | |
| A♯ major | B♭FGmE♭Cm | |
| B major | BF♯G♯mEC♯m | |
| C major | CGAmFDm | |
| C♯ major | C♯G♯A♯mF♯D♯m | |
| D major | DABmGEm | |
| D♯ major | D♯A♯CmG♯Fm | |
| E major | EBC♯mAF♯m |
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.
