Chord Suggester

If you have a melody and are looking for chords to accompany the melody, or if you are looking to reharmonise and jazz up your song, then this tool is for you!

Use this tool to view and listen to a list of potential chords that can match the melody of your music.

To check out the music theory behind this tool, click here.

1. Enter in the key/scale of your song by typing in a note and selecting Major, Natural Minor or Harmonic minor in the dropdown box. Optionally you can select none.
2. Decide what your main note is. For example, if you want to pick just one chord for the whole bar, the main note will be a note in your melody of that same bar which is the most outstanding and has the most attention drawn to it in that bar.
3. Enter your main note by clicking a key on the onscreen piano below. The octave doesn't matter.
4. Your suggested chords are generated below the onscreen piano as clickable buttons. If you had entered the key of your song, the chords generated will be separated into two parts; chords in your key, chords out of key. The chords are defined to be in key when the root note and at least 3 notes of the chord are part of your chosen scale.
5. Hover your mouse over the desired chord. You should see the inversion options appear.
6. Feel free to click on a button with an inversion label to listen to that inverted chord, and see its notes on the onscreen piano.
7. If you are happy with your selected chord, you can build a chord progression by clicking the "Save Chord" button just below the onscreen piano.
8. Repeat again to choose and save the next desired chord into your chord progression (just remember to select the new main note by clicking on the onscreen piano again). You can add as many chords as you would like into your chord progression!
9. You can click on the chords you have saved to listen to them again.
10. Click on the Play button to listen to your whole chord progression from start to finish.
11. If you made a mistake or change your mind, you can click the "Clear Last" button to remove the last chord in your chord progression.
12. You can also clear all chords by clicking "Clear All"
13. If the onscreen piano and chord progression is taking up too much space on the screen, you can hide the piano by clicking the collapse icon (up arrow) located to the right of the chord progression.
14. Enjoy!