Hold My Liquor Chords

KeyCm CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays841

Hold My Liquor by Kanye West is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Cm. It uses the chords Cm, D#, G# and A#. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
Cm
Text
16
Speed
  			Cm,                                             D# 
i can hold my liquor, but this man can't handle  me 
                                            G# 
dark and lonely round on chicagos south of town 
                           A#              Cm 
i'm onto indiana, i heard it in the radio now 

Cm,                                                     D# 
i can't handle no liqua... but these bitches can't handle me 
                                                           G# 
i can't control me niggas, and my niggas they can't control me 
                                                              Cm 
you say you know me my nigga, but you really just know the old me 


repeat through the whole song 



to do the cool screechy thing on kanye's verse play this on the high e string: 

e--13/12------------ 

or better yet bend it (start bent and pull back down to none bent) 


guitar solo at 2:37 (you might be able to do this with one guitar, you just have to  
throw some crazy effects on there): 

E||--------------|-----------------|-------3----6----| 
B||--11s----1----|--1----3----4----|--6--------------| 
G||--------------|-----------------|-----------------| 
D||--------------|-----------------|-----------------| 
A||--------------|-----------------|-----------------| 
E||--------------|-----------------|-----------------| 


--6--3--------6--3--------|-8-----|| 
--------6--4--------6--4-x a bunch|| 
--------------------------|-------|| 
--------------------------|-------|| 
--------------------------|-------|| 
--------------------------|-------|| 


3:47 guitar Solo: (just the general notes that are played, figure out the phrasing  
yourself, it's a groovy pursuit) 

E||--------------|--8----10----11----13----|--15----15b--15----15----|--18----| 
B||--11s----1----|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------| 
G||--------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------| 
D||--------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------| 
A||--------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------| 
E||--------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|--------| 


----------------------------|-------|| 
----------------------------|-------|| 
--8----10b----8----10--10b--|-------|| 
----------------------------|-------|| 
----------------------------|-------|| 
----------------------------|-------|| 

end on a c minor 

tabbed from way up in bham wa. yeezus just rose again 
    	

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