Benang Sari, Putik, dan Kupu-Kupu Malam — chords

Timeline

Chord timeline

Chords in this song

• E♭
• B
• E
• A♭m
• D♭
• A♭
• B♭
• A
• D♭m
• G♭
• F

What you are playing

Tempo

123 BPM

Chords

11

Shapes

2 open · 9 barre

Capo

fret 4

Notes

all three-note

Chords for Benang Sari, Putik, dan Kupu-Kupu Malam, laid out across its 5:11 exactly where they fall. It leans on barre chords — with a capo on fret 4 the same song becomes B G C Em A E F♯ F Am D C♯, which sits easier under the hand. Every one of its 11 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 Benang Sari, Putik, dan Kupu-Kupu Malam 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.

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.