Chord.si

Every song you have ever played or sung is built from a handful of basic blocks. Meet the seven lett...

Extra tones hide between the seven letters. Learn about semitones, sharps and flats, and understand...

Why do two C's sound 'the same' yet different? Meet the octave, labels like C4, and the magic number...

Tones tell you what to play; rhythm tells you when. Meet beats, whole and quarter notes, and the dot...

Five lines, a few dots and two clefs - that's all you need to read music. We explain the staff in a...

Three tones together make a chord. Meet the root, the third that decides happy versus sad, and the f...

A chord diagram is a map for your fingers. Let's learn to read frets, fingers, open and muted string...

A scale is not a random row of tones but a precise pattern of whole and half steps. Learn the W-W-H-...

An interval is the distance between two tones and the foundation of everything - melody, chords and...

Why does one song have two sharps and another three flats? Meet keys, key signatures and the circle...

Seven chords grow out of every scale and naturally belong together. Meet Roman numerals and why I, I...

Four chords, thousands of songs. Meet the most famous progressions (I-IV-V, I-V-vi-IV) and the three...

Add a fourth tone to a triad and a world of colour opens up. Meet the dominant, major and minor seve...

Five tones that sound good almost everywhere. Meet the major and minor pentatonic and the blue note...

The same white keys, seven different moods. Meet the modes - scales that arise when you start the ma...

The same chord, a different bass, an entirely new feel. Meet chord inversions and voice leading - th...

Beyond major and minor lives a whole palette of colour chords. Meet sus, add, augmented, diminished...

Move a whole song into another key in one move. Meet transposition for the singer and the capo that...

Why is a piano never perfectly in tune? Journey into the physics of sound - frequency ratios, harmon...

How are all those 'unexpected' chords in hit songs actually logical? Meet modal interchange, seconda...