Q. Is there a web application what i can input the notes, and it tells me what chord is being played for piano?
A. You can make one.
You need:
several sheets of cardboard or poster board
a pencil
a felt marker
a compass
a ruler
a protractor
a copper pin fastener
a pair of scissors.
Here's what you do:
1. With the compass, draw a circle on one sheet of cardboard or posterboard.
2. With the protractor and pencil, divide that circle into 12 slices of 30 degrees each.
3. With the scissors, cut the circle out.
4. With the felt marker, label those slices on the edge as C, G, d, A, E, B, F#, C#, Ab, Eb, Bb, F.
You have now finished making the Circle of Fifths.
5. Cut out another circle the same size as the Circle of Fifths.
Cut out peepholes for C, G, and E.
Draw an arrow pointing to the C.
With the felt marker, label this as "major."
6. Flip the major wheel over and try laying it on the Circle of Fifths.
You should be able to adjust it so that you see C, G, and Eb.
On this side also, draw an arrow pointing to the C.
Label this side "minor."
7. Make another wheel like the major wheel, only this time, cut another peephole for the Bb.
Again, draw an arrow pointing to the C.
Label this one "seventh."
8. For "diminished seventh," cut out peepholes for C, Eb, F#, and A, but don't draw any arrows.
This same chord can go all four ways.
9. For "augmented," the peepholes are at C, E, G#.
This chord can go all three ways.
To find a major chord, put the major wheel on top of the Circle of Fiths, fasten in the center with the copper pin, and rotate.
Whatever the arrow is pointing to is the name of the major chord.
The same procedure serves for all the other chords.
For French sixths, the peepholes are at Ab, C, D, and F#.
For Italian sixths, the peepholes are at Ab, C, and F#.
For German sixths, you can use the wheel for sevenths.
But that's getting into advanced theory.
My friend had this built into her electric keyboard..?
Q. So my friend's electric keyboard has a chord-finder, I guess you could call it.
I think whenever she plays something on the keyboard it tells here what chords she's playing.
Well, I just started playing keyboard and I'm using tutorials off of youtube.
But I would really like to know what chords I'm playing so I can play the songs I learn on my guitar as well.
My question is, this "chord-finder" that's built into my friends keyboard; can you buy them seperately?
A. Not unless your keyboard is software upgradeable and the company decides to implement that feature. Quite honestly, those things are never very accurate.
It's easy enough to learn basic chord construction, then you can figure out what you're playing on your own and won't need to rely on software to give you erroneous chord names.
There are also several little things online where you can enter in the different notes you are playing it it will tell you what chord it is. Again, it's often not very accurate.
http://www.gootar.com/piano/
^ there's one you can try, but as I said, it's not terribly accurate.
Can someone PLEASE figure out the chords to this song? Almost by Tamia?
Q. This song is really pretty, but I can't get the chords...I found some on Ultimate-guitar.com but they don't sound right....you'd be AMAZING if you could figure them out :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdzFK0IHjdI&feature=related
A. As you may have already guessed, the ultimate-guitar.com that was suggested, does not have accurate chords for this song. It think they may be right about the key it appears to be in Bb.
The chords in this song are jazz chords and are a little complicated but, I think I have some of them figured out so here goes.
The first chord is a Bbmaj6 the notes are F G Bb D (this is also the same chord as a Gm7)
Then I think they play the Bb and G notes separately and then
The next chord is an Fmaj6 the notes are D F A C (this is also the same chord as a Dm7)
Then it appears they play the notes in the chord D - F - A - C and then repeat the chord (Fmaj6)
Then they play the notes A and F separately
Then they play a Bbmaj6 again but this time with the D as the root or D F G Bb
That is not the beginning of the song by the way but those chords are used in various places throughout the song. So, if you follow that, then you can tell that this does sound an awe full lot like the song.
Sorry, but, it taking way too long to listen and then figure out what the chord is but here is how you can do it yourself on the piano. Listen to the chord you want to know and then find just one note in that chord that is correct. Stop the video and with that chord sound in your mind, find the other notes that goes with that chord (usually 3 additional notes or 4 total) by trial and error. it's not that hard to do. Then, use this chord name finder to determine what that chord is: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/ChordNameFinder.htm
To help you out a little, typical jazz chords in that key would be Bbmaj6, Bbmaj7, Cm7, Dm7, Ebmaj7, Ebmaj6, Fmaj6, F7, Fmaj9, Gm7 - in the chorus the chords probably move to the key of Eb
It would help you a lot if you had a chord wheel:
http://www.guitarwheel.com/guitarwheel/Guitar_Wheel.html (they have one for piano too)
Anyway this has been fun but, I need to go and pick up a package so, I hope this was of some help to you.
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