ChordATune - Overveiw

ChordATune is an emotion based melody harmonizer concerning piano music. ChordATune can be used to create your own melodies using a virtual piano or a manuscript editor tool. Where you can easily create edit and display your melody. It provides variation of tools for the process to create music in a user friendly manner. Once you create your melody you can directly give your melody for the process of harmonization. You can also give an already existing midi file (melody) for the harmonization.



ChordATune makes the harmonization process easy. It gives variety of harmony for the same song. If you do not like a particular harmony produced by ChordATune; you can always change the emotional factor and generate a complete different harmony for your melody or else you can change the style(genre) and get a different style of harmony. Users can interactively change the harmony by changing the emotional slider o the genre of the music.
ChordATune also allows to add drum beats for different styles (genres) and generate the final harmony in a manuscript notation and also in midi format. Users can also change the tempo. Guitar lovers can generate guitar tabs for given melody and generate harmony in a guitar tabular format using ChordATune

ChordATune features

• Create your own melodies using a virtual piano/ a manuscript editor.
• Generate harmony according to emotions interactively (If you don't like the harmony u can always change the emotional factor o the genre and get a complete different set of chords).
• Add Drum beats to your melody
• Arrange harmony according to the genre (user preferred style ie Disco, Rhumba, Swing, March, Rock).
• Change the tempo.
• Display guitar tabular format (guitar chords ) for a tune.
  
• Generate manuscript notation to your harmony/melody
• Save MIDI files/Manuscript files in PDF format
• Play Stop Print functionality

Check out ChordATune in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZeizWDnOc

Why Harmonization ? - Importance of harmonizing a melody

One of the biggest problem in song writing or piano playing (o creating your own music) is the problem of harmonization. In this blog I discuss why harmonization is crucial (getting the right chords to the right notes) and how we can overcome this problem using and interactive tool called ChordATune.

Power of harmonization
Play Melody
Play Harmonized Melody


Music is made out of melody and harmony. Melody is the basic tune of a song (which we can easily hum o we can just guess the notes using a keyboard). Harmony on the other hand is the accompaniments to a melody (base chords, drumbeats ect) which makes your song complete. Harmonization is a crucial part in song writing o piano playing because only by harmonization you can make your melody rich and power and also add emotions and color to your song. However, many people face the problem of harmonizing because you need extensive knowledge in music, years of training and practice and also some musicality in you to harmonize a song accurately.

This is where the ChordATune comes in handy... ChordATune is a powerful harmonization tool. Not only just harmonization, you can also create your own melodies the way you want (using a virtual piano or manuscript editor) and make it complete by harmonization. ChordATune let user have variety of harmonies according users emotions and styles and also provide drum beats to make your song have a rocking beat!!.ChordATune output the harmonize melody in manuscript and midi formats. ChordATune also provides a feature of guitar players where they can get guitar chords in guitar tabular format for an any given tune.

This blog is about ChordATune and its powerful features. Now you can create your own music the way you want and also ChordATune provides a mechanism to save your creations in MIDI format so that you can use ur music for many other activities in your digital life.