How to ‘Play Please Don’t Move to Melbourne’ by Ball Park Music
Please Don’t Move to Melbourne by Ball Park Music is the first single from their 2025 album Like Love. It’s a slice of classic, summer Pop that is both breakup song and feel-good radio hit. Please Don’t Move to Melbourne is a perfect capo rhythm track for acoustic guitarists and also a good play-along track for electric players.
Chords: G Fmaj7 F C C2 Am
Pick or Fingers? Use a pick to create the consistent, driving tone of the original. Triple J’s ‘Like a Version’ performance of the song shows the playing style clearly.
Acoustic or Electric? The main rhythm part is provided by the acoustic steel-string, with the electric guitar reinforcing the tone in the chorus.
Does it need a capo? Yes, place your capo at the 4th fret to create concert-pitch with the original. The key is B Major.
So, why is the acoustic guitar capo at the 5th fret in the triple j video clip? Because the guitar is tuned down a semitone and therefore needs the capo at the 5th fret to create the key of B. Guitars tuned to ‘concert pitch’ (E A D G B E) need the capo at 4th fret to match the recording.
What chords does the electric guitar play? The electric guitar plays standard bar-chords in the chorus to fatten up the texture. Use the root 6 versions of B (7th fret), A (5th fret), E in the open position, and C#m (4th fret).
How does the timing work? The whole song is based on two-bar rhythm variations with a tied strum across the middle bar line. Follow the down - up strum directions, remembering that tied strums always take out a downstrum (yes, really!)
Relevant pages in Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1 : to learn more about the chords and rhythms used in Please Don’t Move to Melbourne go to pages 8, 10, 12-13, 19, 21, 25, 28 and 36-37.
Need a bit of help?
Modern Guitar Chord Styles 1 is the perfect companion for our song guides. It will teach you how to read the rhythm slash notation used in our charts (and in professional theatre and studio charts) and is specially designed to help beginners speed up their chord changes, master strumming patterns, and many other techniques.
