With a little practice, you’ll be crooning and strumming this early-20th-century hit. So, you can use your first finger as an anchor and reset the rest of your fingers around it to reach the Cdim7 chord. Also, that Cdim7 comes immediately after a D, and your first finger is on the second-fret A for both chords. If you find it difficult to transition to the Cdim7 chord, try visualizing the shape of your hand in place before it lands. Conversely, he uses his first finger to barre the open A chord, showing how individual chord fingerings can be. The custom branding may affect their resale value I suppose, but I'd be getting it cheaper to start with. As frequently seen in this department’s arrangements, Maurice Tani plays the only barre chord, F#, by wrapping his thumb around to fret the sixth string, rather than barring all six strings. These seem to be about 200 cheaper than the Peerless branded models, AND their Monarch has a tone control.
The song uses a handful of cowboy chords-A, D, B7-with a couple of more complex harmonies thrown in, namely Bbdim7 and Cdim7. In the simple arrangement here, the chorus is played twice. “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” originally included both verse and chorus sections, but most popular versions since Crosby’s rendition (recorded in 1934 and again in 1944) have consisted just of the chorus repeated, often with an instrumental interlude in between.