Carry Me Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays469

Carry Me by Bombay Bicycle Club is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
D
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Speed
  			Main Riff 

E||--------------------------------------------|| 
B||--------------------------------------------|| 
G||--------------------------------------------|| 
D||--------------------------------------------|| 
A||0-2-2-0-2-2-0-5-4--2--0-2-2-0-2-2-0---------|| 
E||------------------------------------4-2--0--|| 



Verse 

E||--------------------|| 
B||--------------------|| All except the last time through where it plays a 2 on the A string 
G||--------------------|| rather than on that last 2 on the D string 
D||4----2---------2----|| 
A||----------0---------|| NB:- this also gets played in the build up to the final Chorus, doesn't  
E||--------------------||      seem to be there in the second verse but there's something similar 
                        on a synth so bleh. 


Post-Verse 

All tremolo picking 

E||--------------------------------|     |-----------------------------|| 
B||7------14-------7-------2-------|     |7-------14-------7-------12--|| 
G||7------14-------7-------2-------| (x3)|7-------14-------7-------13--|| 
D||--------------------------------|     |-----------------------------||  
A||--------------------------------|     |-----------------------------|| 
E||--------------------------------|     |-----------------------------|| 




Pre-Chorus/Chorus, the bit with just the little tremolo chords, this song doesn't  
have very well defined sections 

E||------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 
B||12-------10-------14-------16-------14-------10-------12----------------|| 
G||13-------11-------14-------16-------14-------11-------13----------------|| 
D||------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 
A||------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 
E||------------------------------------------------------------------------|| 



Chorus 


E||------------------------------------------------------------|| 
B||7-------14-------12-------14-------7-------12---------------|| 
G||7-------14-------13-------14-------7-------13---------------|| 
D||------------------------------------------------------------|| 
A||------------------------------------------------------------|| 
E||------------------------------------------------------------|| 

 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante