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24 alternatives to Chord Progressions
Chord Progressions is a blog exploring why many popular songs sound similar, focusing on common chord progressions used in music. The author examines patterns like the I–V–vi–IV progression and the II-IV-I-V… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Chord Progressions launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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ChordCreate▲81Use AI to generate chord progressions with ease
2023 · chordcreate.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to share with HN a new pet project I've been working on to explore how AI can create and explain harmonic chord progressions - Chord Variations. The project uses GPT-4 to generate unique and interesting chord combinations based on user input chord progression. It's akin to having a virtual musical assistant that can help non-musicians and musicians alike explore and create harmonious sound without needing any prior knowledge of music theory. The generated chord suggestions maintain a similar vibe to the user input. Alternative chord progression includes extended chords, chord…
2023 · chord-alt.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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LightNote▲242An interactive site to learn the basics of music theory 🎶
2016 · lightnote.co · its alternatives →
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Learn music better with our living sheet music.
2012 · soundslice.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I just released this music theory and ear training mobile app for guitar which I've been working on for a bit more than a year on the side. The idea was to make something for the eternally "intermediate" guitarist (myself included). There are a lot of beginner apps which rely on learning songs, toolkits which give you a bunch of stuff with no explanation but not many in-between apps to actually learn and practice more generic and somewhat advanced stuff. The app contains short lessons, recaps and most importantly challenges (visual, audio and pure theory) along with a very complete…
2025 · cadenceguitar.com · its alternatives →
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ChordHelper▲104Make chord progressions with no music theory
2022 · chordhelper.com · its alternatives →
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Author here - one of the most notable facts about the app is that it's made entirely in Godot Game Engine! I think it's great for apps like this because it makes it especialy easy to iterate on GUI designs such as this one. Feel free to ask me anything about Chord Chart Memo, or my experience with Godot.
2024 · tiniuc.com · its alternatives →
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ChordHelper▲80Make chord progressions with no music theory
2023 · chordhelper.com · its alternatives →
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Harmopark is a browser-based music tool that can be used for different purposes, ranging from visually grasping harmony concepts to playing around with chord progressions.
2019 · harmopark.app · its alternatives →
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Interactive virtual piano with chord progression generator
2025 · royaltyfreemusichub.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · scale-heaven.com · its alternatives →
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A place to explore piano chords freely and interactively
2022 · pianochord.io · its alternatives →
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I designed a relative piano-roll-based music notation. I used 12 colored arranged in a specific way to make visible the main effects and oppositions of Western tonal harmony. The tonic is always white, so a manual annotation/interpretation is required for each MIDI file. All chords are flags of three to four colors. Minor mode is darker, major mode is lighter. Colors are arranged in thirds. I sorted the pieces from simple complex harmony. I also wrote a bit of text to explain what you may see. There's also a corpus of structures: hyperlinks of tags that allow you to find similar…
Nov 2025 · rawl.rocks · its alternatives →
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2021 · spotifychords.luca.gg · its alternatives →
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This started out when I vibe-coded a guitar scale fingering generator. It came out pretty good, and I started adding stuff to it: chords, then how chords and scales interact. Then I added charts for other instruments I mess around with: piano, cello, alto recorder. There's a complexity toggle to go from basic harmony to extended/experimental stuff. It's honestly still mostly a toy, but I thought other people might be interested in playing with it. Source is on github, so it's easy enough to run locally and fork. https://github.com/aleshh/gtr-scales
May 2026 · projects.alesh.com · its alternatives →
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Chordify gives you the chords for any song
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Play piano chords online. Hear and visualize major, minor, diminished, augmented & more chords on the piano. Makes for an easy piano chord reference chart.
2023 · muted.io · its alternatives →
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Experiment with and create chord progressions!
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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