I have a song that I love. I play the guitar in our church and it is a song that many people like and want to sing.
It is really hard to pitch as the original was a duet between a very deep voiced man and a woman, and so I have found the music online in a version which pitches at a level that the congregation can sing. We sang it a couple of weeks ago and it worked well.
I have the piano music and the guitar chords. It has key signature on the piano with 5 sharps.
The guitar chords are then E C#m A E and in the chorus B E A
I confess that I use a cheats version of the C#m, but it worked well.
There are 2 other guitarists in the church. None of us are 'real' musicians, we are all amateurs doing a job that needs doing, and I know that at least one if not both of them will look at the C#m (and possibly even the B) and say they can't play it. So they will try and find a different key.
But we need to keep the same pitch. And sometimes we play alongside the piano, and the piano music is written in that pitch.
So, I am totally hopeless at working out which chords to use if I use a capo.
I know that there must be an easier set of chords to play this in with a capo, but I can never work out how to find them. Which chords with the capo on which fret do we need to keep the same singing key?
Can anyone help?