Learn: music theory, tools and guides for musicians

Short, practical pages for musicians who play from chord charts.

Music theory

• Circle of fifths

  An interactive circle: tap a key for its chords, relative minor and neighbour keys.

• Nashville number system

  What the numbers mean, how to write them and how a band uses them.

• Chords in every key

  The chords of all 12 major keys and their relative minors, in one table.

Tools

• Transpose chords

  Paste a chart, pick a key, copy the result. It runs in your browser.

• Capo chart

  Which capo fret and which shapes sound in the key you need.

Switching apps

• OnSong alternative

  A simpler app that also runs on Android.

• OnSong for Android

  What exists, and what you can use today.

• Import from Ultimate Guitar

  Share a song to GraceNote in two taps.

• Chord sites

  The sites GraceNote imports from and the chords it reads.

For worship teams

• Worship teams

  Charts and setlists that work with no signal in the church hall.