...but a pretty cool web site for "chords to a song".
You can buy a subscription to access "advanced" features - download MIDI, print, transpose, capo, change speed, etc...
...but you can see chord charts for free (the Chords tab). You can click on any measure to move around if you want. The default tab will show chord diagrams - guitar, uke or piano.
Kind of like Riffstation, but I like the layout better...
From the Web site "About"...
What is Chordify?
Chordify is an online music education service – made for and by music enthusiasts – that transforms music from YouTube, Deezer, SoundCloud, or your private collection into chords. Our service automatically recognizes chords from an audio signal and aligns them to the music in a simple and intuitive player. Chordify uses cutting-edge technology to help both novice and trained musicians play the music they want to play.
So far, Ive found every song I have looked for (though I imagine you can stump it if you get obscure).
I've loaded up the Justin Moore song that I referenced in the Songwriting forum:
Its a good resource in my experience- has shortened my "how did that one go?" search many times and often has several versions of even obscure songs. Good call,Floyd!
I had some peripheral awareness of site but never perused it. Thanks for the post. It’s been fun exploring it. It’s perfect for my occasional curiosity about a progression - being often too lazy to get the guitar out of the closet and tune it
Bud
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Wow, good call Floyd! I look up chords and lyrics all the time, and somehow this site never came up in my searches.
I especially like the way it formats the chords in exactly the way I'd need to enter them into BIAB. At $42 a year subscription it isn't a bad deal for somebody who is in a band (ie making money from his/her music and learning new songs all the time)
One VERY intriguing feature is that MIDI download. If it is sophisticated enough to separate out the parts into a piano track, drum track etc... and the parts actually match the song... that alone would be worth the price of admission. (has anybody tried this with Melodyne multitrack? I need to give that a whirl)
IMHO, there are advantages of using the ACW to extract chords from an MP3: 1) when finished, the chords are already in BIAB, and don't need to be typed in 2) the same process that extracts the chords also tempo maps the song
Disadvantages of using BIAB to replicate a song is that any MIDI or audio tracks generated would be based on the style used, not the signature riffs in the song.
@J&B - " It’s perfect for my occasional curiosity about a progression - being often too lazy to get the guitar out of the closet and tuning it"
..... Exactly!!
@Pat.... HI! Pat! Howya been??? good to see you. I agree with you on this. The Chord layout (or sometimes called "Overview" - not sure why they switch that up) is excellent for being able to quickly recreate the chord structure in BIAB. And the fact that you can click on a measure to hear the song from there, makes it easy to check if a recreated sound in BIAB is matching - like at the chorus. I've been using it to match some particular sounds of songs.
One the main page of the site, there are 8 selections under "Choridy Premium Demo". These are full functioned. So you can try out the MIDI download on any of those songs. (Or any of their other functions). I downloaded one - I think it is just block chords (one track). That list seems to change slightly over time (there were a few different selections yesterday...)
Agreed Floyd. I tried the premium download demo too. Just one track, block chords. No bass, rhythm, no drums, no melody...just the chords that are displayed on the chord chart and only when the chords change from one to another. Limited value for me. YMMV.
I can see how this could be useful to someone who is starting out on guitar. It shows you the chords that are coming up next.
I have not played around too much with the PG BB ACW but as I recall, if the chords are pretty straightforward as most country songs tend to be, it was actually pretty accurate. The thing would be to see if the ACW can show you the chord charts for guitar. I'm thinking there might be a way to do that.
Personally, I've had no need to use something like this, but I can see how it would be a god-send to others. I started out playing to the songs on the radio as a kid.... great ear training. After a while you can even hear the key it's in by the character of the chords.
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Originally Posted By: raymb1 Anything over a 7th chord is garbage.
I mostly agree with this part of your statement! laugh
(just to be clear I am not talking about Chordify!)
Yep... that got a smile....
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The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.
regarding the MIDI chords feature: Some harmony devices depend on an isolated chord track, either MIDI or audio. This would be one easy way to provide a track with nothing but chords, sent only to the device that needs them.
Did you know that BIAB can send silent chords from your chords on the chord sheet from midi ch 9 default or other if free . Very useful for controlling external VH units etc. Here is the setting, for those that may know about this. Have fun Mike
Ohhhh, I hadn't thought of that. "Feel my Voice Live Touch" Sounds like an ad for uhhhh...something.
Back on topic, that chord output feature came up when someone asked if they could use Biab to drive their arranger keyboard and still use the arranger's styles. The answer was yes, and this is how it works.
Did you know that BIAB can send silent chords from your chords on the chord sheet from midi ch 9 default or other if free . Very useful for controlling external VH units etc. Here is the setting, for those that may know about this. Have fun Mike
Yep, I did know that. However that feature isn't in Real Band (what I normally use) so I have to generate the chords with a MIDI style that has a part playing sustained chords.
The only reason I mentioned it at all is because somebody using Chordify in conjunction with RB and a harmony device might find that feature useful. Or not. Everybody's mileage varies.
So far, I've found every song I have looked for (though I imagine you can stump it if you get obscure).
It seems that as long as the song is on youtube it will find it. Just for laughs I asked it to chordify one of our songs that we did a youtube video for and it found it and chordified it.
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