About

Every chord, every way to play it

Chordhalla is a chord library you can play. Look a chord up by its name, its notes, its frets or a famous name, see every shape a hand can reach, and hear each one strummed.

1,224chords: 102 kinds on each of the 12 notes
11instruments: guitars with six, seven and eight strings, basses with four to eight strings, ukulele, mandolin and banjo
99tunings to choose from, and any tuning of your own
44famous chords, known by a name of their own

How the shapes are found

The shapes are worked out, not copied from a list. For every chord, on every instrument and in every tuning, Chordhalla works out each shape that a hand can actually hold: which frets, which fingers, and how far the stretch is. The shapes are then put in order, the ones guitarists really play first. For the everyday chords, the first shape shown is the one published chord charts use, so a beginner's G looks like the G in any book.

The famous chords, such as the Hendrix chord, were checked against written sources before they were included.

What you can do here

  • The Library: every chord as a card you can strum, pluck, move along the neck and turn to another inversion. Fingers or intervals on the dots, and left-handed diagrams if you play that way.
  • The PDF builder: chord sheets for a lesson, a song or a practice routine, laid out for A4 or US Letter. With the full version, a sheet can go live: a short link and a QR code that open it as a page where every chord plays.

Free, and the full version

Everything on Chordhalla is free to use, with no sign-up. The full version is a single payment of US$29 and adds downloading sheets as PDF files, live sheets, and your sheets, sets and settings kept with your licence key in every browser. It pays for the site.

The sound

The guitars you hear are real recordings, both given to the public domain by the people who made them: a Martin HD-28 steel-string recorded by Jeff Learman for the Discord SFZ GM Bank, and a Spanish classical guitar recorded for FreePats. Thank you to both. The lettering is Barlow and IBM Plex Mono, under the SIL Open Font License.

Your privacy

No advertising, no cookies, nothing that follows you around the web. The privacy page lists everything the site keeps and why.

Who makes it

Chordhalla is made by Pyrokinesis Ltd, a small company in New Zealand. Ideas, bugs and chords we got wrong are all welcome: get in touch.