- Shows chords used in classical music: triads (major, minor, diminished) and seventh chords (MM7, m7, Mm7, dim7).
- Identify chords and put chords symbol between treble staff and bass staff.
- Identify chord by measure, you can also define how many chords in one measure.
1.Download
- DOWNLOAD the last release.
- Put the chordIdentifier.qml in the MuseScore/plugins folder (basically "C:\Program Files (x86)\MuseScore 2\plugins" in Windows).
- Restart MuseScore.
- Go to menu "Plugins"->"Plugin Manager" , Enable the plugin "chord Identifer" (you can also associate a shortcut). then click "OK"
2.Run plugin.
Go to menu Plugins-> Chords->chord Identifier, then the plugin should dock on bottom-left of Musescore UI.
Then Set parameters and click "OK"
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Chord Per Measure: you need to define how many chords per measure for your specific score.
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Chord in: notes in your choice staff (Grand/treble/all) will be used for chord identification. Treble+ grand mode will ignore the highest note(melody)
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Symbol :
Normal chord ( C F7 Gm ) Roman Chord level ( Ⅳ) Normal+Roman (C/I) -
Bass: it will figure out a bass note if bass note is not a chord root note, such as (C/G )
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Highlight chord notes: chord notes display on a different color.
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Create New Chord Score: create a new chord-only score
3.Tips
- you can try to set different parameters to get a different result, Ctr+Z can undo.
- Default it is for the whole score if you don't select any measure.it also works on selected portion, such as several measures.it is useful for a complicated score, such as 4/4 ->3/4 beat changing in a staff.
- you can adjust chord symbols manually if think it is not right or not accuracy.
- if the gap is too narrow between treble staff and bass staff, you can change it, Muscore->style->General->Page->Grand staff distance.
More info: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/plugins
I started this plugin as an improvement of:https://github.com/rousselmanu/msc_plugins plugin by rousselmanu
https://github.com/andresn/standard-notation-experiments/tree/master/MuseScore/plugins/findharmonies
http://musescore.org/en/project/findharmony by Merte
https://github.com/berteh/musescore-chordsToNotes/ - Jon Ensminger (AddNoteNameNoteHeads v. 1.2 plugin)
Thank you :-)
Comments and feedbacks are welcome!
yindht