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Browse chord shapes

Move from short three-chord ideas to longer loops. Each dot is a chord phrase from the Chordonomicon dataset, built from Ultimate Guitar chord charts. Use the map like a musician comparing which guitar-centered harmonic shapes belong to the same vocabulary family.

What a musician would notice

  • 1

    Which chord phrases are everyday harmonic vocabulary in a guitar-heavy corpus?

  • 2

    Which phrases feel related even when the chord labels are different?

  • 3

    How does the vocabulary family change when phrases are compared by whole-song setting versus nearby chord context?

Read the map visually

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Dots are chord phrasesEach dot is a short musical phrase, like a word or token in a language model.
Near means related useNearby phrases tend to show up in similar harmonic situations.
Counts show familiarityHigh-count phrases are common vocabulary; lower-count ones can point to more specific style color.

Read this like a vocabulary map. Click a point to pin it in the side panel. Chord phrases are transposed into equivalence classes, so C F G and F Bb C are counted as the same harmonic shape. Source: Chordonomicon.