Paste a chord sheet from anywhere. This reads the chords, finds the capo position that turns them into open shapes, and shows a no-barre way to play anything left over.
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A capo clamps all six strings at one fret, which raises the pitch by one semitone per fret. So when you play a G shape with the capo on fret 2, it sounds as an A chord.
Capo Finder works backwards: it takes the chords you need to sound, lowers them by the capo amount, and checks whether the result is an open shape you already know.
| Shape you play | Capo 1 | Capo 2 | Capo 3 | Capo 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | Ab | A | Bb | C |
| C | C# | D | Eb | F |
| D | Eb | E | F | G |
| Em | Fm | F#m | Gm | Am |
Full table for every shape and fret: Capo Chart.
Paste the song's chords above. The tool tests capo positions 0 to 7 and picks the one where the most chords become easy open shapes such as G, C, D, Em and Am.
No. The capo raises every string by the same number of semitones, and the shapes you are given are lowered by that same amount, so the song still sounds in its original key.
Capo 3. At capo 3 those chords become G, D, Em and C, which are all open shapes.
Where one exists, a workaround shape is shown in blue, for example Fmaj7 instead of F or Bm7 instead of Bm. These sound close to the original and avoid the full barre.
Use the Chord Transposer to move a whole song up or down, for example to suit your singing voice. Then bring the result back here to find a capo position.