Irish Bouzouki Chords

Pick the key of the tune and see its chords as bouzouki shapes, or tap the frets you're holding to name the chord. GDAD, GDAE and more, and the mandolin.

Chord shapes for the Irish bouzouki, worked out for your tuning. GDAD, GDAE, ADAD, GDGD and Greek CFAD, and the mandolin too.

SHAPES THAT RING Every chord has its own page with up to six shapes up the neck. The easiest shape leads, in first position where one fits, then the others up the neck, with open courses ringing wherever they fit. Each box shows the frets, the fingers and the notes. Tap it to hear it strummed.

MADE FOR BACKING TRAD Open a major or minor chord and the no-3rd shapes sit beside it: D5, Dsus2 and Dsus4 next to D. With no 3rd, they fit a tune whether it's major or minor.

THE CHORDS FOR A TUNE What key is it in? Pick the key and the mode: major, mixolydian, dorian or minor. The key page shows the seven chords of the key with a shape for each, rings the main ones, and tells you which open courses ring in that key. Hold a drone under it, then try a few suggested progressions.

CHORD FINDER Tap a fret on each course and the finder names the chord. It shows the near misses, one note away, and every key that holds those notes. Play it to hear it.

A TUNER FOR YOUR COURSES The tuner hears which course of your tuning you're playing, the upper string of an octave pair too, and shows how far off it is. Tap a string to hear its pitch, or move A = 440. Sound is analysed on your phone and never recorded.

CAPO Put a capo on and every shape is worked out from it, with frets counted from the capo and chord names as they sound. Key pages suggest one when the open strings would clash with the key: capo 2 plays A major with G major shapes.

EVERY CHORD ON A ROOT Triads, sus and power chords, sixths, sevenths, add9s, ninths and up, on all twelve roots. See every chord on a root at once as a grid of boxes. A chord that needs five notes says so rather than faking it on four courses.

SEARCH AS YOU TYPE Type a chord or a key: F#m7, Bbmaj7, Dsus4, C/G, A dorian. Search a slash chord and the shapes with that bass come first.

YOUR TUNING, YOUR STRINGS Five bouzouki tunings, or set your own course by course. GDAE is the octave mandolin's tuning too. Set each course to unison or octave strings, and the strum follows.

MANDOLIN TOO Switch to the mandolin and every page follows: the shapes, the keys and the finder.

LEFT-HANDED One switch mirrors every chord box and the neck.

IN YOUR CASE Works offline, with no account. Your recent chords and keys are on the first screen. Sound plays with the silent switch on.