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Selecting or Entering Alternate Chords

When Chord Intelligence is done detecting chords, its results are immediately visible in the list of chords in the Notation Area. However, what you see in the notation area is only part of what Chord Intelligence has calculated.

For each of the chords you see, there is a short list of alternate chords that were also likely at that point in the song.

Choose an alternate chord

Change the chord

TIP: Clicking on alternate chords will sound the chords to help you make your decision.

Enter your own chord

Enter your own chord

Recognized Chord Strings

While Chord Intelligence does have a large vocabulary of chords that it can detect automatically, there are many that it cannot recognize on its own. For those chords, we have a quick and easy way to specify even the most complex of chords.

Capo allows you to enter very complex chords using very simple seach strings. This is a collection of useful information about those strings.

Root notes

The root note of a chord can be entered easily, without requiring you to type a sharp or flat symbol on your keyboard. When appropriate, Capo will turn 'b' into a flat symbol, and '#' into a sharp symbol.

For instance, Capo will do the right thing with the following strings: eb, g#, c, bb

Chord Varieties

Capo implements most, if not all, of the chords listed on this Wikipedia page. Below are examples of the chord entries that Capo will allow you to enter using the keyboard.