Oct172026

Kygo, Ava Max – Before You Know It Chords on Piano & Ukulele

ChordsE C#m A B

KeyKeyCapo

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[Intro]
E

[Verse 1]
E
Friday night, let's call again
                                               C#m          A
One final round, with drinks my friends, we're goin', we're goin'
E
Take a glass and fill it up
                                    C#m           A
Don't wanna see no empty cup, we're toasting this moment

[Pre-Chorus]
    B                                 A
And even though they say the bars are closin'
    B                                 A
And even though they say the night is done

[Chorus]
                         E
We'll be back before you know it
                             B
To the place we all know and love
                                  C#m
With those red mark stains on the rugs
                                   A
Though our hands might hurt in the morning
                                          E
We'll be back before you, back before you know it
                           B
We'll be right back at it again
                            C#m
Turning random strangers to friends
                             A
We might wake up wishin' and hopin'
             A                                E
But we'll be back before you, back before you know

[BBreak]
B   C#m  A                                               E
           Oh, we'll be back before you, back before you know it

[Verse 2]
E
Start to walk to straight a line
                                          C#m           A
We'll circle back to this whole time like always, like always
         E
We'll be picking up where we left off
                                           C#m           A
We take a heartbreak, something's wrong at our place, at our place


[Pre-Chorus]
    B                                 A
And even though they say the bars are closin'
    B                                 A
And even though they say the night is done


[Chorus]
                         E
We'll be back before you know it
                             B
To the place we all know and love
                                  C#m
With those red mark stains on the rugs
                                   A
Though our hands might hurt in the morning
                                          E
We'll be back before you, back before you know it
                           B
We'll be right back at it again
                            C#m
Turning random strangers to friends
                             A
We might wake up wishin' and hopin'
             A                                E
But we'll be back before you, back before you know


[Break]
B   C#m  A                                               E
           Oh, we'll be back before you, back before you know it
 B
Oh
 C#m         A
Oh, we'll be back
                                              E
Oh, we'll be back before you, back before you know it

Watch: Kygo, Ava Max - Before You Know It

From KygoOfficialVEVO on YouTube. Play along with the chords above.

How to play Before You Know It: key, chords and progression

Before You Know It by Kygo, Ava Max is in the key of E major (four sharps: F♯, C♯, G♯, D♯). The song uses 4 chords: E, C#m, A and B.

The progression the song keeps returning to is A – E – B – C#m (IV – I – V – vi in E major), a rotation of the four-chord pop progression that starts on the IV chord. In solfa, that is fah – doh – soh – lah. Learn these 4 changes first and most of the song falls into place.

Easier on guitar: put a capo on the 2nd fret and play the shapes D, Bm, G, A (75% of the chords become easy open shapes, against 50% without a capo). It sounds exactly the same.