Turn any song into chords
Paste a YouTube link or type a song title. Anychord hears the chords out of the recording and lays them out in time, with guitar and piano diagrams and a countdown to the next one. Free, and no account.
or · drag one anywhere onto the page
How it works
- 1Find a songType a title or paste a YouTube link.
- 2Anychord hears the chordsA song already on the site opens at once. A new one takes a minute or two.
- 3Play alongThe diagrams move with the music, and the next chord is counted in.
Anychord's picks
Oasis - WonderwallF♯m · A · D · E
Radiohead - CreepG · C · B · Cm
Plain White T's - Hey There DelilahD · Bm · A · F♯m
Billie Eilish - Birds of a FeatherA · D · Bm · Em
Adele - Someone Like YouD · A · F♯m · E
Goo Goo Dolls - IrisG · Bm · D · A
The Beatles - Let It BeC · F · G · Am
Ed Sheeran - PerfectA♭ · D♭ · Fm · E♭
The Killers - Mr. BrightsideF♯ · C♯ · G♯ · A♯m
The Police - Every Breath You TakeA♭ · Fm · D♭ · E
By genre
Rock classics
Ballads
Ex-YU
Pop music
For beginners
Picked because they're easy to play.
Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)G · D · Em · C
Bob Dylan - Knocking on Heaven's Door (Original)G · D · Am · C
The Cranberries - ZombieG · C · Em · E
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home AlabamaG · C · D · F
On every song page
Guitar or piano
Switch the diagrams between guitar shapes and piano keys.
Transpose
Move the whole song up or down to suit your voice.
Capo
See which capo fret turns barre chords into open shapes.
Tuner
Tune your guitar in the browser with your phone or laptop microphone.
Free online guitar tuner →
Artists
Learn
- How to read a chord diagramThe six lines, the dots, the numbers down the side — and the same chord drawn on a keyboard.
- What a key is, and what it tells youWhy four chords keep turning up together, and what to do with the key once you know it.
- Barre chords, and when a capo replaces themThe hardest thing a beginner meets, and the seven-euro clamp that makes half of it unnecessary.
- The open chords worth learning firstEight shapes that between them cover an enormous number of songs, in the order to learn them.
Anychord on your phone
The Android app is on Google Play. The iPhone app is coming soon.
Where the chords come from
The audio goes through a neural network trained on recordings, which estimates for every moment which chord is sounding. What comes back is a list of chords with a start and an end — the same thing you would get by ear, only faster.
The display is built for playing along: a large diagram of the current chord, the next one announced with a countdown, and a lane sliding past the playhead so you can see what is coming. The chords are an estimate and complex arrangements can throw it off — check by ear before you write them down.