Guide

How to find the chords of a song

Want to play a song but do not know its chords? Here are three reliable ways to find them — by ear, by import, or by search — and how Jam Jam does each for you.

Real-time chord detection
Featured tool — Real-time chord detection

Find chords by ear with real-time detection

The fastest way to learn a song by ear is to let a chord detector name what you play. Strum a chord and Jam Jam recognises it live from your microphone — 14 chord qualities across all 12 keys — so you can rebuild the progression one chord at a time.

Import a tab or a PDF

If a chord sheet already exists, import it. Jam Jam brings in songs from a link, an online search across 17 tab sites, a PDF — or, on your phone, a photo — then cleans them up into a tidy chord-and-lyrics view you can play from.

Search and keep them in your songbook

Search online and save what you find to your chord notebook. Everything stays in one place, in sync across your phone and the web, ready to play with its diagrams, one-tap transposition and a capo worked out for you — and on Android, lyrics that scroll as you sing.

Find the chords you play, live, with free chord detection: