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Capo 3, and they're
all open shapes.

Paste the chords you've got. It'll tell you where the capo goes.

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What you play

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Or just a key

    
Every fret that puts your key on open shapes.

    

      
    

    

    

  


  

    
What it does

    
It moves your hand, not the song.

    

      A capo is a new nut. Clamp it on the 3rd fret and a G shape sounds a B♭ —
      same song, same key, three easier chords. That is the whole trick, and it
      is why the answer above names the shapes you play and the key the room
      hears.
    

    

      Which fret? The one that leaves the most of your own chords on open
      shapes and the fewest on barres. That depends on the chords in your song,
      not just its key — so it counts yours rather than reading a table.
    

  


  

    
Why it asks what you play

    
A uke is a shorter instrument.

    

      A ukulele has an open F that a guitar has not, and its body starts at the
      12th fret where a guitar runs to twenty. Send a uke player up to the 7th
      for a blues in G and you have taken most of their neck away for two chords
      that already rang open. So the answers stop at the 4th fret and the chart
      at the 5th — which is the row that puts B♭ on F shapes, the one a uke
      player actually wants.
    

  


  

    
Print this bit

    
The whole chart, every key.

    

      For the wall of a practice room. Each row is a key, and each fret next to
      it is a capo position that leaves the song on open shapes.
    


    

      
C majorCapo 3 → ACapo 5 → G

      
Db majorCapo 1 → CCapo 4 → ACapo 6 → G

      
D majorCapo 2 → CCapo 5 → ACapo 7 → G

      
Eb majorCapo 1 → DCapo 3 → CCapo 6 → A

      
E majorCapo 2 → DCapo 4 → CCapo 7 → A

      
F majorCapo 1 → ECapo 3 → DCapo 5 → C

      
F# majorCapo 2 → ECapo 4 → DCapo 6 → C

      
G majorCapo 3 → ECapo 5 → DCapo 7 → C

      
Ab majorCapo 1 → GCapo 4 → ECapo 6 → D

      
A majorCapo 2 → GCapo 5 → ECapo 7 → D

      
Bb majorCapo 1 → ACapo 3 → GCapo 6 → E

      
B majorCapo 2 → ACapo 4 → GCapo 7 → E

      
C minorCapo 3 → Am

      
C# minorCapo 4 → Am

      
D minorCapo 5 → Am

      
D# minorCapo 1 → DmCapo 6 → Am

      
E minorCapo 2 → DmCapo 7 → Am

      
F minorCapo 1 → EmCapo 3 → Dm

      
F# minorCapo 2 → EmCapo 4 → Dm

      
G minorCapo 3 → EmCapo 5 → Dm

      
G# minorCapo 4 → EmCapo 6 → Dm

      
A minorCapo 5 → EmCapo 7 → Dm

      
Bb minorCapo 1 → AmCapo 6 → Em

      
B minorCapo 2 → AmCapo 7 → Em