• 🎵 Find a Chord by Notes

    Don't know what chord you're playing? Enter your notes, click piano keys, or select guitar frets to find possible chord names and formulas.

    Enter notes separated by spaces, commas or dashes. Examples: C E G or C, Eb, G, Bb
    Click the piano keys that you are playing. Click a key again to remove it.
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    Click the frets you're holding down. Open strings are represented by fret 0.
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    🎼 Possible Chords

    Why can one group of notes have multiple chord names?

    A group of notes can often be interpreted in more than one way depending on which note functions as the root.

    For example, C, E and G can clearly form C Major. However, the same three notes can also appear as part of other harmonic structures depending on the musical context.

    If you're using the chord in a song, the melody, bass note, previous chord and following chord can help determine which interpretation makes the most musical sense.
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  • A chord finder can help musicians identify chords from the notes they already know, making it useful for songwriting, music theory, guitar, piano, and arranging. Instead of memorizing every possible chord shape, you can enter the notes you're playing and use the results to discover what chord they form.

    For the most accurate results, enter all of the notes that are actually sounding, including notes that may be repeated in different octaves. You don't necessarily need to enter duplicate notes, since a chord's identity is generally determined by its pitch classes rather than how many times a particular note appears.

    One lesser-known tip is that the lowest note isn't always the root. If you're playing E–G–C, for example, the notes can belong to a C major chord even though E is the lowest note. This is an inversion, and recognizing inversions can make chord identification much easier.

    If you're using the tool for guitar, remember that open strings count as part of the chord even if you're not consciously thinking about them. On piano, sustained notes from previous chords can also affect what you're hearing.

    Chord names can sometimes have more than one reasonable interpretation depending on the musical context. A group of notes might function differently depending on the key, bass note, melody, and surrounding chords.

    Tip: Don't just use a chord finder to identify chords—experiment with the results to discover new chord progressions and songwriting ideas.

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