1. Connect a MIDI keyboard
Open the live app in your browser and connect a MIDI-compatible keyboard. ChordBeam listens to the notes you play instead of making you enter theory data manually.
ChordBeam is a browser-based MIDI chord analyzer for pianists, keyboardists, songwriters, church musicians, teachers and music students. Play notes on your keyboard and the site helps you identify chord names, inversions, note spellings and Roman numeral function in real time.
Open the live app in your browser and connect a MIDI-compatible keyboard. ChordBeam listens to the notes you play instead of making you enter theory data manually.
As soon as you play, ChordBeam analyzes the active notes and surfaces the likely chord name, inversion clues, note labels and related harmonic context.
Use the chord library, progression pages and blog posts to turn detection into understanding for practice, teaching, arranging and songwriting.
See what your fingers are playing and connect names to real keyboard shapes.
Inspect gospel, worship and contemporary voicings more quickly during practice.
Capture ideas, explain harmony and compare progression choices with faster visual feedback.