Practical Guides

Get the job done, step by step.

Hands-on guides for real tasks — finding a song’s chords, recording your own playing to get chords, building progressions, and more. Each one walks through the fastest way to do it with OtoTheory.

How to Find the Chords of a Song — by Ear or with an App

Get a song's chords as fast and accurately as possible

7min›2

How to Record Yourself and Get the Chords (Guitar & Voice)

Turn what you played into chords, key, and theory — then grow it into a song

6min›3

How to Make a Chord Progression — A Beginner's First Step

Pick a key, start from the chords that fit, and you can already write a progression

7min›4

How to Find the Key of a Song — Spot It from the Chords

Use the ending chord and the chords in the song to pin down the key fast

7min›5

What Chord Comes Next — For When Your Progression Stalls

You've placed the first chord. The next one won't come because you don't have a way to choose it.

7min›

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Detect chords from a song you own or your own playing, then analyze, edit, and practice — all on device with OtoTheory for iOS.

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