pychord 0.2.9

A library to handle musical chords in python.

Overview

Pychord is a python library to handle musical chords.

Installation

$ pip install pychord

Basic Usage

Create a Chord

>>> from pychord import Chord
>>> c = Chord("Am7")
>>> c
<Chord: Am7>
>>> c.info()
"""
Am7
root=A
quality=m7
appended=[]
on=None
"""

Transpose a Chord

>>> c = Chord("Am7/G")
>>> c.transpose(3)
>>> c
<Chord: Cm7/Bb>

Get component notes

>>> c = Chord("Am7")
>>> c.components()
['A', 'C', 'E', 'G']

Find Chords

>>> from pychord import note_to_chord
>>> note_to_chord(["C", "E", "G"])
[<Chord: C>]
>>> note_to_chord(["F#", "A", "C", "D"])
[<Chord: D7/F#>]
>>> note_to_chord(["F", "G", "C"])
[<Chord: Fsus2>, <Chord: Csus4/F>]

Create and handle chord progressions

>>> from pychord import ChordProgression
>>> cp = ChordProgression(["C", "G/B", "Am"])
>>> cp
<ChordProgression: C | G/B | Am>

>>> cp.append("Em/G")
>>> cp
<ChordProgression: C | G/B | Am | Em/G>

>>> cp.transpose(+3)
>>> cp
<ChordProgression: Eb | Bb/D | Cm | Gm/Bb>

>>> cp[1]
<Chord: Bb/D>

Supported Python Versions

• 2.7

• 3.3 and above

Links

• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pychord

• GitHub: https://github.com/yuma-m/pychord

• Documentation: http://pychord.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Author

• Yuma Mihira

License

• MIT License