A site to help you create and practice music.
Tune-tools has the following functions:
Generate chords from input notes
Print a chord to an instrument fingerboard
Suggest scales for a chord
Print a scale to an instrument fingerboard
Flask is required to run the tune-tools GUI application install with the following if not already on your system.
pip install flask
Run tune-tools as a python flask application:
from flask/
run:
python3 app.py
Source code for main tune-tools functionality
from src/
usage: tune-tools.py [-h] [-i str] [-k str] [-w] [-n] [-ins str] [-m str]
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-i str, --input str Input txt file or string where each line is a space delimited list of notes to generate chords with, or chord name and symbol to get the notes of (default: )
-k str, --keys str Choice of sharp (#) or flat (b) to write note and chord labels with (default: b)
-w, --weights A boolean flag for using chord weights to less randomly select chords (default: False)
-n, --notes_gen_chord
A boolean flag for whether to print the notes of chords created with create_chord_chart (default: False)
-ins str, --instrument str
Type of instrument to print fingerboard of options: 'guitar', 'bass', 'ukulele', 'violin', 'mandolin' (default: )
-m str, --main str main function to
1) generate a chord chart from notes -m "create_chord_chart",
2) Get note from a chord -m "get_chord_notes",
3) Suggest scales to play over chords "suggest_scales",
4) Print a chord to an instrument fingerboard "print_chord_fingerboard",
5) Print a scale to an instrument fingerboard "print_scale_fingerboard"
(default: create_chord_chart)
Example runs
from src/
python3 tune-tools.py -i input/notes/1.txt -w -m 'create_chord_chart' -k b -n
python3 tune-tools.py -i input/chords/1.txt -w -m 'get_chord_notes' -k b
python3 tune-tools.py -i input/chords/1.txt -w -m 'suggest_scales' -k b
python3 tune-tools.py -i input/chords/2.txt -m 'print_chord_fingerboard' -ins 'guitar' -k b
python3 tune-tools.py -i input/scales/1.txt -m 'print_scale_fingerboard' -ins 'guitar' -k b
Excel spreadsheet giving the diatonic chords for a mode / makam