Originally Posted By: musiclover
Thanks very much Floyd and Kemmrich,

That definitely explains it, although I had to do a bit of a think after reading your posts to get the concept into my head.

I am very familiar with movable chords on the guitar, but was coming at it from the wrong angle if I played an open C chord then put a capo at first fret and played the same fingering of C I would get C Sharp Maj.

Does make a lot of sense the way biab does it though, as someone is more likely to try a song out on guitar first.


The only reason you see the concert "C" as a guitar "B" is because your BIAB key is still C. Say I am playing a song in D, I would type in all the chords as D (D A G). Then I say, hey maybe I'll put the capo on the second fret -- the key stays at D, but the chord display becomes C F G. Once that capo is on, I would type any additional chords as if I am in the key of C (C Dm Em F G Am Bdim)

In your example you want the BIAB key to be C#! Then when you put the capo on, the chord shows as C in the chord display. Does that make more sense? Playing a B chord with capo on the first fret gives you a concert C chord.

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