Chord database

Does anyone know of a chord database similar to this sort of thing but with which you can search for chords containing a particular note?

I know I could do this by hand, but I'm lazy.

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You are indeed lazy, Mark! And this is one NIiiiiiiiiiiiice site you got there!

Is it? I haven't looked at anything else on it, I jsut googled chord database in the hope of finding something like what I described.

I used the very same chord calculator when I first started on the piano. It was quite helpful.

I think when I compose now I just make up my own chords. Of course, they always end up being regular chords because if notes sound good together someone has already dissected them and named them. :thumbsup:

I do all of my composing on instruments. I just ad-lib whatever sounds good and when I type it into my sheet music program low and behold it's recognized as a chord. That doesn’t surprise me because if I made up a combination of notes that sounded good together and they weren’t already recognized as chord I’d be in total shock.

So why look for chords that have particular notes in them? If you already know what notes you’d like to have in the chord just build up some more notes around those that sound good and there you go. You might not know the name of it, but by golly it’s chord!

Actually couldn’t you figure out what it has to be named from music theory? It’s just going to be major, minor, diminished, augmented, sixth, seventh, eleventh, enigmatic, overtoned something or other.

What’s in a name anyway? You just want the sound right?

I'm looking for a list of chords that have one common note between them, this is to play with an idea I had - partly influenced by nikolas - of making a chord progression with all of the chords having one common note, so even if they come from completely different keys, there is still some connection. For example C major and Ab Major. The key of C major has no accidentals, and the chord of Ab major has two flats in it, so it would seem hat the two chords wouldn't go well together, but they both contain a C (C-E-G; Ab-C-Eb) so they seem to sound good together.

I've probably explained that really poorly ;)

So that's why I'd like to find a list of all triads containing say a G, so I could just sit at the piano randomly playing them and trying to find ones that are distant, but sound cool when played together.

I think that all makes sense... :thumbsup:

Trial and error.

Any chord database isn't going to tell you which ones work well together.

I know most of them will work together though, I'm just too lazy to write down all the ones I can think of that contain a particular note :thumbsup:

These are the kinds of things I used to do when I was younger and had energy. :thumbsup:

I write Visual Basic programs. Using a spreadsheet that contains all the chords the program could list them or even play them in various progressions for you. In fact, the program could probably just generate all possible chords using a few simple rules from music theory. It really wouldn't take long to write a program like that. I could do it in a good weekend if I'm in the mood.

I don't have the energy to do that kind of stuff anymore though. In fact, I think I'll go lay down now that you have me thinking about it.

Do you mean to say you want a chord progression with ALL of the chords containing a common note, or just have each chord have a note with the preceding and following chords?

You are indeed lazy, Mark! And this is one NIiiiiiiiiiiiice site you got there!

I have to quote that for emphasis :D

I have found such too, googled it like you :D

These are the kinds of things I used to do when I was younger and had energy. :happy:

I write Visual Basic programs. Using a spreadsheet that contains all the chords the program could list them or even play them in various progressions for you. In fact, the program could probably just generate all possible chords using a few simple rules from music theory. It really wouldn't take long to write a program like that. I could do it in a good weekend if I'm in the mood.

I don't have the energy to do that kind of stuff anymore though. In fact, I think I'll go lay down now that you have me thinking about it.

I'm just getting into vb actually, finding it useful already, I made an

Do you mean to say you want a chord progression with ALL of the chords containing a common note, or just have each chord have a note with the preceding and following chords?

The former.

Whilst working on a guitar piece today I had to look up a diminished chord. I couldn't find diminished chords on that piano chord site (perhaps they refer to them as something else?)

In any case, I found two guitar chord sites. Although there are probably hundreds of these on the web. But these two are kind of cool.

ChordFind.Com - Guitar Chord Finder

chord house ::: guitar room (easy) -- online guitar chords

I know that neither of these is what you are looking for. You want a data base that will call up all chords with common notes. Someone probably wrote a program like that I'm sure. Finding it on the web will be the challenge.

Here's an interesting online chord builder/searcher.

*** Guitar Chord Explorer *** A powerful free online tool