Short guides for the chord instrument. Each one ends on a page you can play.
How a chord chart is built, and how to play one on ChordJoy. No lyrics. No account.
What I–V–vi–IV means, how it moves, and where to play it in this Songbook.
The chords in G major, how they move, and public-domain songs written there.
A simple way to practice chord changes on your own, with a click and a pad.
Ten public-domain songs from the Songbook you can open and play in the browser.
How guitar and ukulele shapes differ, and where both diagrams sit on a song page.
How to move a song to another key on ChordJoy. The address stays the same song.
What a capo changes on the neck, and how that maps to a key change here.
How to use the on-page click with a chord pad. Same instrument, no extra app.
Ways to guess a key by ear. Catch in Lab is experimental. No accuracy promise.
Songbook pages that stay on four chord names, and how to practice that small set.
What a major or minor triad is, and where to hear one on a song page.
Hymns in the Songbook that stay on three chords, and how to play them slowly.
Public-domain carols in the Songbook, and the chords printed on each page.
Five open guitar shapes, and Songbook pages where those letters show up.
Four ukulele shapes to start, and a song page that uses the same letters.
Short public-domain songs for a first session on the pad. No lyrics on the page.
How the 12-bar blues pattern is laid out, and songs that share its three chords.
What motion by a fourth sounds like, on the circle pattern and a short cadence.
Songs counted in three, and how the chart shows a bar of three beats.