What A Beautiful Name

Minimum skill needed to play

You can play this song if you are comfortable with a simple down strum pattern that can be used throughout. The first part of the song is played with slow, spacious strums while the second part builds and is fairly full sounding. The chords are fairly basic but include the less popular minor third chord (F#m in the key of D).

Chords and chord transitions

You can play the chords of the original key using D chord shapes with no capo. Use the Chord Shape Tool below to pick what chord shapes you want to play. Here's how it works:

• First choose the key of the song.
• Then choose the capo fret until "Play shapes in" shows a key you are familiar with and the chords listed in "Chord Shapes" are ones you know or want to learn. This allows you to play the song using chords and chord shapes you know while the song is in a key you don't know.
• View chords and chord transition pairs for suggested voicings.

What to watch out for

This song tempo and feel is consistent but on the slow side. Even when the bridge and last choruses are big, a simple down strum can be played to easily drive this song.

Try not to speed up the song during the bridge or the last chorus.

How to play this song solo

With a fair number of different chord transitions, make sure you focus on those while using a simple strum. Find a pattern that feels comforatable to you and allows you to make every chord change.

Song structure

The song can be played following this order. Note that the lyrics change slightly in each chorus and bridge so they are numbered specifically because of the differences. Each chorus still contains the same chord progressions.

• Verse 1
• Chorus 1
• Verse 2
• Chorus 2
• Instrumental
• Bridge 1
• Bridge 2
• Chorus 3
• Tag (last line of chorus)