Compare chord styles
Use this like a seasoned musician pointing out which Chordonomicon phrases sound ordinary, genre-marked, decade-marked, or a little of each. The source corpus comes from Ultimate Guitar chord charts, so guitar-based popular harmony is strongly represented. Move from short gestures to longer loops with the phrase-size slider.
What a musician would notice
Common vocabularyDark points are high-count loops that many songs share: the ordinary grammar underneath many styles.
Genre colorGenre-colored points mark phrases that appear unusually often in one style.
Decade colorDecade-colored points show phrases that become more characteristic of an era.
Color means style signal
Use the lens buttons to ask whether a phrase is everyday vocabulary, genre color, decade color, or a little of each.
Read this as a musician's style map. Colored dots are phrases that appear unusually often in one genre or decade; dark dots are common loops. Click any dot to pin details. Transposed phrases are grouped into equivalence classes, so C F G and F Bb C count as the same harmonic shape. Source: Chordonomicon.