App for making piano keyboard chord charts

mistercharlie

I’m learning piano, and I would like to make charts for the songs I’m learning.

I know there are a million chord chart apps, but what I want is like Tonality’s great diagrams:

Ideally, it would have blank keyboards, and I could tap the keys in a chord to color them. That would be it.

Or, a way to do this neatly in something like the Notes app would be cool.

Bruques

I like this question.

I used to make these as learning resources both for keyboard and pad controllers in Illustrator coz it's normal for me to use Illustrator, but hopefully someone has exactly the answer for you.

I wonder if any of the scoring apps have a keyboard view like this.

The very worst of all cases in the absence of such an app, just a canva account and a vector of such a keyboard loaded in (I'm sure I have one somewhere on old harddrive or should be easy to find search for free vector piano keyboard or something like that,
should be easy enough to select the individual "circtangular" fills of whatever note and change colour and save.

But I look forward to seeing if anyone knows.

@Poppadocrock you ever come across something like the OP's description?

cokomairena

Tonality has a notepad that has this functionality in mind

cokomairena

Just click the green floating thingie

mistercharlie

That’s neat but I’d have to search for a chord and then find the correct voicing every time

michael_m

@mistercharlie said:
That’s neat but I’d have to search for a chord and then find the correct voicing every time

So I assume you would already know which voicings you would use and just want to be visually reminded of the exact notes in that particular chord?

Have you thought about creating a chart of blank chords as a template and filling it in manually with a pen?

ecou

Not exactly what you ate looking for but Suggester 2 might help

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/suggester-2-chords-scales/id6448964737

cokomairena

@mistercharlie said:
That’s neat but I’d have to search for a chord and then find the correct voicing every time

You can “draw” chords in tonality

mistercharlie

@michael_m said:

@mistercharlie said:
That’s neat but I’d have to search for a chord and then find the correct voicing every time

So I assume you would already know which voicings you would use and just want to be visually reminded of the exact notes in that particular chord?

Exactly!

Have you thought about creating a chart of blank chords as a template and filling it in manually with a pen?

I have, and I guess I could scan them back into the iPad when It’s done.

@cokomairena I did’t find that feature. Checking it out now! Edit: That’s exactly what I want, but I want to make charts.

Atlesbe

@mistercharlie said:

Ideally, it would have blank keyboards, and I could tap the keys in a chord to color them. That would be it.

I love ChordPolyPad for this specific purpose.
https://apps.apple.com/es/app/chordpolypad/id694599930

mistercharlie

@Atlesbe said:

@mistercharlie said:

Ideally, it would have blank keyboards, and I could tap the keys in a chord to color them. That would be it.

I love ChordPolyPad for this specific purpose.
https://apps.apple.com/es/app/chordpolypad/id694599930

This is great!

Poppadocrock

@mistercharlie I’m curious if you are looking to use a keyboard to make a pdf or song tab of the chords you play, or are you looking to do something with midi or audio as well?

mistercharlie

@Poppadocrock said:
@mistercharlie I’m curious if you are looking to use a keyboard to make a pdf or song tab of the chords you play, or are you looking to do something with midi or audio as well?

Just a plain song tabs. I’m also learning to read music notation, but until I get better at that, I need a way to remember the songs I’m learning, and this is a lot quicker to read/write.