5 distinct chords · 66 changes · 3:19 long
Timeline
Chord timeline
Chords in this song
- D
- A
- Em
- G
- Bm
What you are playing
Chords for Baby Can I Hold You (Live), laid out across its 3:19 exactly where they fall. Most of it sits in D major. It leans on barre chords — with a capo on fret 7 the same song becomes G D Am C Em, 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 Baby Can I Hold You (Live) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| A major | AEBmDF♯m | |
| A♯ major | A♯FCmD♯Gm | |
| B major | BF♯C♯mEG♯m | |
| C major | CGDmFAm | |
| C♯ major | C♯G♯D♯mF♯A♯m | |
| D major | DAEmGBm | |
| D♯ major | D♯A♯FmG♯Cm | |
| E major | EBF♯mAC♯m | |
| F major | FCGmA♯Dm | |
| F♯ major | F♯C♯G♯mBD♯m | |
| G major | GDAmCEmall open | |
| G♯ major | G♯D♯A♯mC♯Fm |
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.
