42 Results for "chords"

Deep House with Modern Hardware: 3 Essential Pieces for the Perfect Match

Planning your deep house setup for 2026? These three essential hardware picks – plus smart alternatives – help you build a warm, groove-driven studio workflow.

Chord Progressions for Guitar: 5 Combinations for Your Playing

Chord progressions are the building blocks for any song. Fast riffs are cool, but let's learn about the core foundations first.

Barre Chord Songs: Top 5 tunes to help you master this technique

Barre chord songs can feel hard when learning guitar. Here are 5 examples of songs that will help you improve your barre chords.

Mastering Chord Progressions: A guitarist’s guide to harmony

Mastering chord progressions is essential for unlocking the true potential of your instrument. Stay tuned as we look at how to use them effectively.

Pocket Audio HiChord: How to go viral in 5 easy steps

Pocket Audio’s HiChord chord synth went viral on TikTok and hit its Kickstarter goal in just two minutes. They told us how they did it - and it was surprisingly simple.

Four Guitar Chords For (Nearly) Every Song

Did you know that you only need four guitar chords to play hundreds of songs? Find out how to play many famous hits using just four basic chords!

Monster OctaChord, Alien Step Mutha, Roundels: Free Plugins of the Week

Monster OctaChord spits out sets of chords in various styles, Alien Step Mutha delivers menacing multi-FX, and Roundels generates unique polyrhythms.

Four Piano Chords for (nearly) every Song

Four chords are all you need to play an endless list of popular songs on the piano. Don't believe it? Check out our tutorial on piano chords!

NAMM 2023: InstaChord strummable electronic chord machine

The InstaChord's revolutionary interface will change how we think about music and offers limitless and effortless possibilities. It's a game-changer.

Akuto Studio Chord Machine AKT-0.1: Futuristic finger chords

Play chords in the most achingly stylish way ever on the Chord Machine from Akuto Studio. Could this be more hipster than an OP-1?

Ukulele Chords: The Most Common Tabs For You To Play Anything on Ukulele

'Let it be', 'No Woman No Cry', 'Over the Rainbow' and thousands of other songs in C or in G - find handy charts for the most common ukulele chords.

Knobula Chord Pilot: MIDI chords and arpeggiations in your modular

Chord Pilot (now shipping) is a modular adventure in MIDI chords. It's a Eurorack-based MIDI controller that throws out chords, progressions and arps

REVIEW: Roland AIRA Compact T-8, J-6 and E-4

Over the summer Roland introduced us to 3 little AIRA Compact machines, the T-8, J-6 and E-4. Are they a perfect techno party or will they fall flat?

Phil Speiser THE_INSTRUMENT: Understated life changing virtual synth

THE_INSTRUMENT reports to herald in a new era of music making with a revolutionary workflow and impossibly awesome sounds. Can it live up to the hype?

Reason Studios Chord Sequencer is your gateway to fresh chords

Reason Studios has released the new Chord Sequencer player device. Use an easy, color-coded system to discover new chords and progressions!

Roland AIRA Compact: 3 fun-sized machines for beats, chords and voices

With shades of Korg Volcas and Behringer Minisynths Roland's AIRA Compact series introduces the T-8 Beat Machine, J-6 Chord Synthesizer and E-4 Voice Tweaker.

Antares Auto-Key Mobile: Free app finds the key of any song in seconds

Ever wondered what key a song is in? Antares Auto-Key Mobile is a free app that finds the root and scale of any track in seconds.

SingleCut Beersmiths Notes IPA: Hold my beer, I’m taking a solo!

Each can of SingleCut Beersmiths Notes IPA teaches you a guitar chord, with diagrams and interactive Snapchat filter, and comes with a free plectrum!

Poly Cinematic: 8 voice, 56 oscillator polyphonic Eurorack module

How many? An 8-voice polyphonic synthesizer featuring 56 oscillators, chord memory, detuning, filter and reverb in a single compact 12HP module.

Audiomodern Chordjam: Not your guitar teacher’s chord book!

Audiomodern Chordjam is a new plug-in that automatically generates chords, progressions and sequences for your tracks. Let Chordjam break your writer's block!

Fender is giving away the Fender Tune Player Pack for free

For a limited time, you can download the Fender Tune smartphone app and get the Player Pack upgrade for free. Don't miss out on this great offer!

Need chords? Call the Chordmonger

Over 100 chords at your fingertips with the buttonised Chordmonger MIDI Chord Controller complete with arpeggiator and chord sequencer.

TheoryBoard Thy333 – never play a wrong note again

The TheoryBoard returns in a slightly different form called Thy333 and hits Kickstarter as a colourful MIDI controller, composition tool, chord generator and music instrument.

Scaler 2 by Plugin Boutique is out: easy-peasy chords & harmony for any tune

Scaler 2 updates a capable harmony and chord generator/helper utility, adding song analysis with chord recognition. One to check out for songwriters looking for inspiration.