Easy Chords and Easy Tab Maker Pro Software for Windows

ChordSMART
$14.95 - NSA Software LLC

An invaluable reference tool for guitar players of any level. ChordSMART shows chords in any key in several tunings, and even shows you optional open strings.

The SMART way to learn Chords

The Chord Slider instantly view a chord in many fingerings on the fretboard. Find a nice fingering or the right chord for a specific position easily!

27 chord types (with several variations of each) and all keys.

Tunings include: Standard, Drop 1/2 Step, DADGAD, Drop D, Open D and Open E.

Print chord diagrams.

Now 640x480 and full screen option.

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Piano chords
$0 - ABC Music games

Piano and chords. Write a melody. then play it. Play a Piano. Play the piano using your mouse or your computer's keyboard. Piano/Keyboard. Piano/Keyboard. Here's a list of what your child or student will receive from free flash lessons: Your child will gain confidence in playing as they easily learn to recognize all the music notes. Music notes become easy with clear colorful diagrams!

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Easy Tab Maker Pro
$0 - VisAid Development, Inc.

Easy Tab Maker Pro allows you to plug your guitar into your computer. While you play Easy Tab Maker Pro analyzes the pitch and tone of the signal transmitted from your guitar. It monitors the change and combination of the chords played. Then it analyzes the pitch and tone to determine which strings were played and where your fingers were at. Easy Tab Maker Pro then graphs the results as tablature.

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Chord Pickout
$39.95 - Luxand Development

A friend of mine has perfect pitch. He is a professional guitarist. The only instrument he needs to guess chords for a song is his own ear. He can listen to a song and easily pick out the right chords or even make a better arrangement than those he listened to.

But, what about the rest of us, who don't have this gift? There are hundreds of new songs produced every month. Sometimes scores for current songs are hard to find. But, you need them now, when they are popular and not a year later.

This is where Chord Pickout can help. This program uses its artificial intelligence to guess chords for you. All you have to do is to load a media file (wav or mp3) and click a button. Chord Pickout will transcribe the music and write down the recognized chords. The process is fully automated.

While most of its competitors use simple patterns to recognize chords, Chord Pickout applies complex math and shows outstanding results even in the toughest cases. You will receive chord notations that are very close to those by the song's author.

This program will became a must-have tool for those who want to play the hottest and most popular songs on a guitar, piano or other musical instrument.

No need to wait for published scores, no need to spend your precious time trying to find the right chords. Just load an audio file and you've got the chords. It's that easy!

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Compose music by chords
$35 - ABC Music games

Compose music tool helps to create melodies.
The program represents graphically the structure of melody being created. Boundaries of motives, phrases and sentences are clearly shown.
The program provides the following methods of motive development: sequence, variaton, repetition, extraction, inversion, new rhythm generation and so on.
Chord Editor includes all frequently used triads, seventh chords and their inversions. Additionally, Chord Editor suggests the only chords that are in accord with the logic of functional motion. It makes it easy to create the right harmonic progression.
User can choose the arrangement of chord inserted in a motive. Only those arrangements are suggested that are in accord with voice-leading rules.
The Motive Editor is implemented as the traditional Piano Roll editor. The editor has a mechanism that prompts to a user how and when to resolve the non-chords tones. ear training.
The program supports two file formats: '*.ptt' - own xml-based format; '*.mid' format.

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Music Education
$10 - J.P. Shankle

PLEASE READ THE "README FILES". The system is menu driven which makes it extremely easy to go from scales to chords, theory, dictation, solfeggio in any order. Scales are scales and they must be put to memory.Chords are the same. Theory must also be put to memory. Dictation and solfeggio range from simple to difficult. A piano keyboard is used to help visually picture the scales, chords, dictation and solfeggio. All the major scales are covered. All the minor scales (melodic/harmonic) are covered. The tonic, sub-dominent and dominent chords are covered with their 1st and 2nd inversions in both major and minor. I have also included some definitions. I know its not comprehensive enough but it's a start. Your computer MUST have speakers to use this system. The THEORY covers how scales are composed, time values, how chords are formed, key signatures, how to take dictation and notes on solfege. There is a facility to print the scales (major/minor). There are about 250 programs in this system and they were tested on Windows XP and 98 2nd ed. They were also tested on a 17" and 19" monitor. They are NOT intended for non Windows machines.

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