Warning: you may discover answers to music questions you didn’t know you had. And more!
Welcome to the music dictionary! This is the place to look up all music-related things you forgot about, or you just didn’t need to know about before. Sharp? Minor? BPM? Music intervals? Now that you arrived here, at this point in your life, you might as well read something useful to strengthen your music-playing game.
Music theory and chords
Music theory might seem like an impossible puzzle, but we tried to break it down for you, easy!
- 2-5-1 chord progression
- Arpeggio
- Barre Chord / Bar Chord
- Chord
- Chord progression
- Chromatic Scale
- Enharmonic Equivalent
- Fifth / Perfect Fifth
- Flat
- Fourth / Perfect Fourth
- Guitar Chord Diagram
- Inversions
- Major
- Minor
- Music Interval
- Natural Harmonic
- Octave
- Open Chord
- Power Chord
- Root
- Scale
- Semitone
- Seventh Chord
- Sharp
- Tablature / Tabs
- Transposition / Transpose
- Whole tone
Playing music – hit it!
Whatever your playing style might be, remember that its all part of the universal language that we call music.
Songs and stuff
What makes great songs so great? Here are some secret (and less secret) ingredients for that hit recipe.
Gear and studio recording
It’s time to gear up ladies and gents! Get ready for some proper (home) studio recordings with these terms.
Note from our editors
Do you miss a term in the music dictionary? Don’t hesitate and please let us know. We are constantly improving our Academy content in the dictionary and on the Chordify blog, so feel free to drop us a line for suggestions and feedback. We appreciate it. Happy jamming!