Chord! is a chord and scale reference that works with any fretted instrument like guitar, basses, ukulele, banjos,… It computes and analyses all the possible fingerings for chords, scales, and arpeggios.
With Chord!, you can also write a song by simply dragging and dropping chords, transpose it in any key, compute the fingerings with any tuning and generate a beautiful print-ready PDF, etc.
You can also import your existing songs in text format (please note that the app does not ship with songs). You can also link audio tracks from your music library and play them at the same time while adjusting their pitch and/or speed.
You don't even have to know music theory to use it: behind its brute force, the app knows how to handle by itself some subtleties of music to give meaningful results.
If you don't have to be an advanced player to use the app, you can however take a look under the hood and tweak the parameters if you like! Whatever is your level or your instrument, Chord! will adapt and give you the most precise answer.
You can search for any chord, split (like D/F#), or not. If you're a beginner, you can choose the chord from a list, but you can also use the intelligent keyboard to enter the chord as it is written. If this keyboard is a great way to enter chords, it is also very useful to discover and understand how the chords are formed. You can also enter some notes on a neck to find which chords it can be. You can hear how each fingering sounds. Chord arpeggios are also supported, as well as drop voicings (drop 2, drop3, etc.).
The app also ships with the biggest list of named scales (and you can create your own scales). It analyses and presents them with nice interactive views (scale, score, and keyboard). Of course, it can also lay down these scales on a neck (with sound) and compute their fingerings. Like for chords, you can even search for a scale from its fingering!
Each scale can be harmonized (decomposed into chords). You can also enter a sequence of chords to find which scale you can use to improvise onto.
You can use one of the hundred tunings that ship with the app, or you can add your own ones, for any instrument, with or without a capo, even with broken strings if you want!
The app uses custom and unique algorithms to generate charts, easily input complex harmonic structures, extract chords from fingerings, determine finger positions, compute keys of scales, generate chords from scales and find scales that go well with some chords.
For example, Chord! is the right tool in these situations:
• You want to have your songbook available at any time, in your pocket;
• You're a beginner and you want to know how to play easily a D/F# chord;
• One gave you a ukulele and you want to know how to tune it and how to play the G Hawaiian scale;
• You want to know on what scale you can improvise for some chord sequence (and the answer can be different than the Pentatonic minor!);
• You want to print your song and share it with your band.
• You want to experiment with this nice open tuning, moreover with a bottleneck;
• Your little sister can't make bar chords and you want to show her how she can do without bars, with three (little) fingers only;
• You want to impress your little sister by showing her how you can play the same chords with two bars!
• You want to understand how this fingering for C13 is actually a fingering for C13;
• You broke a string and want to know how to play some chords without;
• You want to know how Django managed to play with two and a half fingers.
The app fully supports left-handed instruments.
Main functions of the app:
- Write, transpose, fingerize, print, and share songs;
- Search chord fingerings (or chord charts);
- Search chords from fingerings;
- Search scale fingerings;
- Search scales from fingerings;
- Search chords from scale;
- Search scales from chords.
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Full of features, & powerful
This app was my got for writing down lyrics. But also I used it to put gospel songs into for practice. It is clean and easy. If I would suggest anything(if they do not exist) it would be YouTube tutorials. Only because there are so many features and at first it may be hard. For myself figuring out how to put capo tunings.
I bought song kit today so I might not be using Chords! Anymore. Switching up because I want to change keys etc more and just songkit looks more powerful.
Much love and respect to this developer. I wish there were more apps and developers like this.
Today I think I will export a song or two onto my PC/Mac and learn more about the way the app structures songs.
Usually on my iPhone or iPad I cut and paste and import from guitar tab sites which often is alittle messy( not apps fault) sometimes a mouse and keyboard helps.
But the apps ability to auto detect cut and pasted songs is great
I wish I knew about it earlier on.
Other guitar tab apps are disappointing and or expensive.
Why do I need a monthly subscription to lookup or use user generated guitar tabs/chords?
Chords is the best alternative to such sites IMHO
Cut and paste and make a few songs collections. Done
Love this app so much
Been using it for a year or two, love it!
No way to hear your song
I like the app’s interface, and it lets me build my own chord fingerings but when I build a song I would want to hear how it sounds too, especially with my own fingerings. There doesn’t seem to be a way to audio play my created song in this app. The play button only scrolls the song sheet. Not worth the price I paid.
Lost
I’m sure this is a good app, but I’m having a hell of a time doing anything productive with it. I just can’t figure it out.
Apple Music?
Good app but the songbook doesn’t recognize the songs I’ve downloaded from Apple music.
Please optimize for iPhone X screen
Nice app but needs to be optimized for iPhone X screen
Pfff
What a waste of time and money, not at all what I imagined from the reviews, way to much messing around, when I’m using a guitar app I have my guitar in my lap and I’m ready to go an app like this requires far to much attention, there are much better apps out there..
Chord Exclamation Mark!
Adding the "!" to the app name is no exaggeration. This is the chord app to beat all chord apps. A huge amount of thought has gone into this and it is by far the best app to help illustrate chord and scale structures to beginners, and it is a handy encyclopedia for seasoned pros. Someone said it is great for teachers and they were absolutely right. It's also good for gigging musicians, students, and beginners just looking to find the right chord, scale or harmony for a musical idea.
Fantastic!
Hands down the best app for collecting and organizing songs, figuring out chords and scales, as well as transposing to different keys and tunings. It's great that it's available for both iPhone and iPad, however a Mac version would be really handy too. Hopefully soon!
Wow!!!
I purchased this app for chords and scales references but I discovered a very great app to create chords sheets.
This app is simply amazing!!! There is so many settings when you need to create a PDF file from a chords sheets.
You can import Chord Pro files type or Text files. You can use drag n drop to add chords into your lyrics.
Now, I only used this app to create PDF files for use with Music Binder.
Congratulation to the authors of this app. I will recommend it to everyone.
