5 distinct chords · 39 changes · 3:24 long
Timeline
Chord timeline
Chords in this song
- B♭
- Gm
- F
- E♭
- Fm
What you are playing
Chords for Purple Rain (Solo Piano Cover) - Maximizer, laid out across its 3:24 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 Em D C Dm, 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 Purple Rain (Solo Piano Cover) - Maximizer 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 | FDmCA♯Cm | |
| F♯ major | F♯D♯mC♯BC♯m | |
| G major | GEmDCDmall open | |
| G♯ major | G♯FmD♯C♯D♯m | |
| A major | AF♯mEDEm | |
| A♯ major | B♭GmFE♭Fm | |
| B major | BG♯mF♯EF♯m | |
| C major | CAmGFGm | |
| C♯ major | C♯A♯mG♯F♯G♯m | |
| D major | DBmAGAm | |
| D♯ major | D♯CmA♯G♯A♯m | |
| E major | EC♯mBABm |
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.
