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Any chord, on both instruments at once.

Pick a root and a quality. You get the notes, the formula, where it sits on a keyboard, and every place it appears on a fretboard.

Root

Quality

C major

Keyboard

This chord belongs to these keys

Fretboard — every position in 12 frets

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What this is actually showing you

Chords are stacked intervals, nothing more

Every chord here is built by counting semitones up from the root. The formula is the chord — the shapes on your instrument are just consequences of where those notes happen to sit.

01

Same chord, many places

On guitar the same three notes appear a dozen times across the neck. That is why one shape slides to twelve keys.

02

Major and minor differ by one note

Flatten the middle note by a semitone and major becomes minor. Toggle between them and watch which key moves.

03

Chords belong to keys

Most chords sit inside several keys at once. That overlap is what makes changing key possible.