Chordify —AI Transforms Music into Chords|Music Tech Alliance

Jeffrey Wang/王俊元
Music Tech Alliance
4 min readNov 6, 2020

If you want to play a song, you’ll know a song’s chord progressions, melody and rhythms. Especially the chord progressions is the basic of a song, you can improvise under them.

In recent years, there are more and more music sheet websites and youtube channels. It’s easy to find the sheet of popular songs, but if you want to play a song not popular. Chordify is a good solution transforming the Youtube video you love.

Chordify —AI Generates Chords and User Revises

Chordify is founded in Netherlands with almost 35 to 50 people in 2013. The core technique is transforming the music into chords by training AI model recognizing the chords like a musician. Users can revise the chords generating by AI model in website or app, it helps AI improve its ability.

Features of Chordify

Chordify is available on web, iOS and Android, everyone can access Chordify account from your computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.

Find the Songs and Artists You Love

Searching for the song name and artist name is the basic way to find the song you want to play. For me, I often copy the title of Youtube video and searching in Chordify.

If you listen music on Youtube, searching the song you listen on Chordify

The other way to start Chordify is browsing the “Discover” page, there are some recommendations of channels and artists. After you find the song you love, you can add favorite songs to your personal music library and organize them by creating an endless amount of setlists.

Discover page has many hot songs in your country like left picture, the page of a song has a “heart” button in the right hand corner saving your favorite songs into “My Library”

When a song is chordified, you get the chords for guitar, piano and ukulele. Play your guitar with Chordify, you can feel and enjoy the music. If you don’t know how to press the chord, Chordify provides the chord diagrams of guitar, ukulele and piano.

Chordify has two kinds of view of chords, one is “Chords” view and the other one is “Diagrams” view . The “Chord” view can preview all of chords in this song, the “Diagrams” view is great to know how to press chords on guitar.

In the chordify song, there are some buttons in the bottom helping you practice songs. For example, the “Guide” button has metronome. The “Tempo” button slows down or speed up the song, making you learn gradually from slow. The “Loop” button loops parts of a song. Learning a song can be quite challenging. And some parts are as tricky as an obstacle course. The loop function allows you to select a sequence, loop it.

There are more features for Premium Chordify users, like uploading your own music files, download the MIDI files, transpose and download the chord sheet.

Pricing

If you’re not the Chordify premium member, you only can transform one song everyday with some advertisings. The monthly fee is $6.99/month, billed annually can save 50%. For myself, that’s such a good deal. You can cancel within the first 14 days, and you’ll get your money back. No questions asked. If you want a refund, contact support@chordify.net within 14 days of purchase and you will get your money back. You have the time to try it and decide whether worth to buy.

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Jeffrey Wang/王俊元
Music Tech Alliance

A man who combines with 🎸music, 👨‍💻software engineering and business. 🔎 IG: jeffreywang1183