Chord diagrams
Easy Worship shows how to play each chord of the song you are viewing, as diagrams, for four instruments: piano, guitar, ukulele and bass.
In a song
From the floating menu, open the “Chords” entry and choose an instrument (Piano, Guitar, Ukulele or Bass): a window shows the diagram for each chord used in the displayed song, with no duplicates. It closes with “OK”, the cross, a click outside it or the Esc key. If the song contains no recognised chord, the window says so.
The instruments offered in this submenu are chosen in the Configuration, “General” panel › “Floating menu” (see Customise the display).
Recognised chords
Each instrument covers 180 chords: 12 root notes (C, C#/Db, D… up to B) × 15 chord types, grouped in five families:
- Basic chords: major, minor, diminished, augmented;
- Suspended and added-note chords: suspended 4th, suspended 2nd, add 2 or 9, power chord;
- Four-note chords (sevenths): major seventh, dominant seventh, minor seventh;
- Sixth chords: major sixth, minor sixth;
- Ninth chords: dominant ninth, minor ninth.
Chords written with letters (C, D, E…) or in solfège (Do, Ré, Mi…) are recognised, along with
several common spellings (for example 7M for maj7, s4
for sus4, ° for dim, + for aug,
2 for add9). A chord with a different bass note (e.g.
Bb/F) is shown as its main chord. A chord outside this list has no diagram.
Browse every diagram
In the options page, the “Learning” group of the side menu offers one panel per instrument: “Piano chords”, “Guitar chords”, “Ukulele chords” and “Bass chords”. Each panel presents every available diagram, by family and then by chord type, on the 12 root notes. Each chord type is a collapsible section: Major and Minor are open on arrival, the others closed. These panels are always visible, whichever instruments are chosen for the floating menu. They can also be reached through the floating menu’s “Learning” entry (see Learning).
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