finger-picker - Posted - 11/08/2020:  07:00:52

Is there a resource out there that lets one input the known notes to a possible chord position and the resource spits out possible chords that the notes would be included with? I am working on classical banjo pieces where only fret positions are given and I am hoping to make more sense of each piece if I knew which chord I am playing. For instance, which chords are possible with the second string at the 7th fret, the third string at the 9th fret, and the first string open in standard G tuning?



I saw Theo's Chord Generator and I have GuitarToolkit app, which both gives the notes for chords that are selected, but I would like to reverse engineer this system by inputing notes and not chords up front.



Thanks

Edited by - finger-picker on 11/08/2020 07:08:04

trapdoor2 - Posted - 11/08/2020:  08:12:28

Dan, there are a bunch of "chord generators" out there that do just exactly what you want. 8notes.com has a piano chord finder that works pretty good, esp. if you already know the names of each note.



There is a good phone app called "Reverse Chord Finder Free". It is a guitar app but you can easily configure the tuning. I just used it to find your chord as "D/E" or alternatively, "E7sus2"

Edited by - trapdoor2 on 11/08/2020 08:17:30

Texasbanjo - Posted - 11/08/2020:  08:15:19

I know of no software that does that, but maybe someone else has heard of something.

Do you have a recording of what you're trying to learn? If so, the good old trial and error method works well. Play the first few notes and try a G chord. If that doesn't sound right, try a C or a D and continue trying chords until it sounds right. Once you get the first chord, you can usually (not always) figure out what the key is and from there what the chords are.

If the song you're learning is in musical notation, what kind sharps/flats are in the key signature? If there are none, you are probably in the key of G. If it has flats or sharps, you can figure out what the key signature is and what the chords are from there and go back to the old trial and error method.

If you have the fret positions, I'm sure someone has a typed/downloadable list of all the banjo chords that they would share and you could figure out from the fret positions what chord you were playing.

And, as a last resort, if you have Tabledit or some such software you could tab it out, listen to it and figure out key and chords that way.



In other words, where there's a will, there's a way to accomplish your objective.

Texasbanjo - Posted - 11/08/2020:  08:17:49

Just looked a little further down this forum and there's a thread called Chord Finder.... you might want to read that thread. Might be what you're looking for. It has an URL to a chord finder. Go here: apps.apple.com/us/app/banjo-co...444269383 and see if that might be what you want.

JohnTN - Posted - 11/08/2020:  11:53:18

I have frequently used the "Music Scales and Chords" website for just this purpose.

scales-chords.com/

Good Buddy - Posted - 11/08/2020:  12:35:49

Even if you know every note being played, there is still some level of interpretation needed to properly name a chord, which will only come with an understanding of theory, not that I understand all the time. Often people leave certain notes from extended chords, especially the root and the 5th interval. Substitute chords usually have notes outside of the key of the scale being used.