Hi all,
I was wondering - have any of you ever come across a tool that could analyze/recognize the chords in for example a MP3-file? The idea is that you load/import a MP3-file, and the tool then lists the chords played.
I tried something called ChordPickout (http://www.chordpickout.com), but results were not that great, I think. Maybe you know of an alternative?
Best wishes,
Brian
You could try Seventh String Transcribe, but it will still be a bit of work. I’ve been using it to figure out Chris Martin’s (Coldplay) alternate guitar tunings. Transcribe is also the best slow-down program I’ve used.
OTOH, ear training and a bit of music theory helps tremendously.
Yes, the Keyboard View in Transcribe lets you see the tone peaks to help identify chords and voicings. Very handy, particularly for the hard-to-hear inner voices.
One problem with automatic ID is that chords are a matter of interpretation. For example, if you see/hear the ascending tone stack A-C-E-G … Is this Am7? Or C Major over A in the bass (C/A)? Or FMajor7-add9, with a missing root? It depends on the function of the chord in context. And for that, you need some theory to understand what you’re hearing.
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Are you two related?
You could look up the answer in messier object database, but
OTOH, knowledge of astronomy and a bit of astrophysics theory helps tremendously. 
Jeff
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Such a nebulous subject! There is a chord recognition feature in Band-in-a-Box from PGMusic called the “audio chord wizard”. You import a recording and it outlines the chords played throughout the recording and allows you to then build a BIAB arrangement around them. I don’t use this feature for my work but I have tested it on a few recordings that I am familiar with and it did work fairly well. It presents the chord structure based on the context of the song. It’s not just pitch recognition. I am sure it has limitations but I haven’t delved deep enough into it to be able to list any here.
Here’s the description from PGMusic: http://www.pgmusic.com/bandbox_featurelist.htm#audiochordwizard
Feadoggie
the thing is music theory is mathmatical, and thus in most cases very easy to model, there are too trickey things with an ‘automagic’ cord modeller - firstley, finding out the pitches of the chords in the recording, a task only slightly easier then voice recognition. After that the issue is that with advanced harmonic resource there are several correct answers to ‘what is this chord doing here?’ and thus its subjective, the answer the computer retunrs may be ‘a’ correct answer, but it might not be the one you were looking for.
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Siriusly, it’s likely unnecessary to know the actual chord names, just which notes to play.