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Usually, all of the chords in a song come from the same musical key. This is called a diatonic chord progression. You can learn more about keys by reading our music theory primer post. Each musical key produces different chords, one built beginning on each note in the scale.
This tool displays chord position diagrams for fretboard-based stringed instruments, such as the banjo, mandolin, guitar etc. The chords are dynamically generated, so any tuning is supported.
Lookup the Diatonic Chords of any Key. Diatonic chords are the chords that only use the notes of a chosen Key.
Tablature generation tool for diatonic accordion / melodeon and harmonica. The tunes are entered in ABC notation, tablature is created based on instrument, layout and key selection. Many ABC tunes are available on folktunefinder.com and thesession.org. More information about ABC notation can be found at abcnotation.com.
A simple online piano chord player to play the diatonic chords of all major and minor keys directly in your browser. You can even trigger the 1st and 2nd inversions as well as the 7th chords for the chords in a key.
This is where you can select either a major or minor diatonic key, which will determine our chord suggestions. The button next to it (with the dots) lets us choose which chord type is displayed on each row...
To identify the key of a song by it's chords choose the chords below and see the highlighted slices on the circle of fifths to the right. This searches all 12 possible keys for the selected chords (diatonically) and returns the keys with most matches.
