A free chord chart maker for guitar, ukulele and piano
This is a chord chart generator that does three jobs in one page: it looks chords up, it turns songs into clean, shareable charts, and it plays them back so you can check your ear against the page. Pick a guitar tuning, a ukulele or the piano, and every chord comes with a diagram, the notes it contains and its formula. Nothing needs installing and there is no account.
Chord diagrams that fit your hand and your tuning
The Chord Finder covers 28 chord types from plain major and minor through sevenths, suspended and added-note chords to 9ths, 11ths and 13ths, and slash chords with any bass note. On guitar the shapes are generated for the tuning you choose, so DADGAD, Drop D or Open G show shapes that really work in that tuning. In standard tuning the familiar open shape or barre comes first, followed by other positions you can step through. Diagrams can show finger numbers, note names or plain dots, they can be flipped for left-handed players, and a capo moves the shapes while the sound stays at the real pitch. On piano you get genuine voicings with inversions, and a slash chord puts the named bass note underneath.
Paste a song from a chord site and it converts
Most songs online are written with the chords on one line and the words under them. Paste one into Song Chart and the page recognises that layout, moves each chord to the right syllable and writes the song as ChordPro, the plain-text standard where chords sit in square brackets, like [Am]Hello [F]world. It understands section headings such as Verse and Chorus, picks up lines like Capo 2 and Key: G, keeps tab blocks as they are and takes a title from the first line. Conversion is a best guess based on the spacing of the original, so give the result a quick look, and press Ctrl+Z if you want the original back. ChordPro files from other programs open too, with sections, the {chorus} command, comments and chord definitions.
Transpose, use a capo, count in Nashville numbers
Move a whole song up or down with one click, and the page picks sharps or flats to suit the new key. If the key is too hard to play, a capo shows you the easier shapes for the same sound. The key is detected from the chords, for major and minor songs alike, and you can override it. Switch the display to Nashville numbers or Roman numerals to see the structure of a song, or simplify it to basic chords or plain triads when a jazzy chart is too much for a campfire. When you are happy, Apply transposition writes the new chords into the text.
Play along, stage mode and printing
Press Play along and the song is strummed chord by chord at the tempo you set, with the current chord highlighted and the diagrams lighting up in step. Choose a strum pattern, add a click and a count-in, loop it, or click any chord to start from there. The sound is a synthesised model, a Karplus-Strong plucked string for guitar and ukulele and an additive tone for piano. It is made to confirm the chords and the feel, not to replace a recording. For a gig or a rehearsal, Stage mode shows the chart in large type, scrolls it at an adjustable speed and asks the screen to stay on. Print produces a clean black-on-white page, in one or two columns, with the chord diagrams if you want them, and it doubles as a PDF through your browser's print dialog.
Practise changes in the progression player
Type any progression, or load a classic one in the key you choose, such as I–V–vi–IV, the twelve-bar blues, ii–V–I or the Andalusian cadence. The Progression Player shows every chord diagram at once, loops the changes at your tempo and lights up the current card, which makes it handy for working on awkward chord changes. Send a progression to the songbook as a song when you want to build on it.
Reverse lookup: name the chord you are holding
Click the frets on the neck or the keys on the keyboard and Reverse Lookup lists the chords that those notes make. The lowest note decides whether a result is shown in root position or as a slash chord, and chords with the fifth left out are marked. Click a result to open it in the Chord Finder.
Private, with your songs kept in this browser
Lyrics, chords and sound are all handled in your browser and are not uploaded anywhere. Your songbook and settings are stored in this browser's local storage under the keys cc-songs (the songs), cc-cur (which song is open) and cc-ui (instrument, capo and display options), and the light or dark choice under jb-theme. Clearing site data removes them, so use Back up all now and then, and remember a backup file is the only copy that survives a different browser or device. A share link carries the song inside the link, compressed where the browser allows it, so there is no server copy; very long songs make very long links, and some chat apps cut those short, in which case exporting a file is the safer way to send it. Links from the earlier version of this page still open. The page works in current browsers on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. If you hear nothing, click the page once first, as browsers keep sound off until you interact, check the tab isn't muted, and on an iPhone check the silent switch, which also mutes web audio.
More music tools
Tune up with the guitar tuner, keep time with the metronome or try chords on the virtual piano. Paste your chart into the chord backing track maker for a full band to play along with, or jam on four chords with the 4 chord song player. The whole set lives on the music tools page.