Please note that editing is *only* available on our website!
Editing your song
First of all, open the song you want to edit. This can be a newly chordified song or one that is already saved in your library or the archives.
To start editing, just click on the Edit button, and this will put the window into editing mode. Now you’re ready to start editing! To exit editing mode, click on the Diagrams or Overview tab.
Changing time signature
You can click on the Meter button in the Edit window to toggle between a 3/4 or 4/4 time signature. Click it again to change it back.
Deleting a chord change
Click on the chord change you want to delete.
Either press the backspace/delete key on your keyboard, or click on the trash can icon.
Moving a chord
Click on the chord you would like to move.
Either click on the arrow button to move the chord or use the Control (or Command if you are using OSX) and arrow keys on your keyboard to move the chord into the desired position.
Adding or replacing a chord
Click on the chord or the square where you would like to put the chord.
Either click on the pencil icon, or just start typing the name of the chord you want to add. For a flat sign, just type 'b', for a sharp, use the hashtag.
Press the 'Enter' button on your keyboard to save the changes.
Copying and pasting chords
To copy several chords from one part of the song to another, simply click and drag your cursor to highlight the section you want to copy, and it will turn blue - then select copy:
Then go to the first square where you want to insert the chords, select the paste icon to the right of the trash can:
Entering a rest
Click on the chord or square where you want to enter the rest. Click on the pencil icon, then type ‘~’ or ‘n’:
Press the ‘Enter’ button on your keyboard to save the change.
Correcting the bar lines
Sometimes the automatic beat-tracker does not put the bar lines in the right place when the song is chordified and you end up with something that looks like this:
You can however, 'shift' the chord sequence to correctly align with the bar lines.
Just click on the arrow buttons next to shift chords:
Downloading your edit
When you download the song, all edits will be taken into account, so you will be downloading the version that you have created. Just click on the MIDI or PDF button as usual.
Switching between edited and automatically recognized chords
If you want to go back and see what the original chord sequence was, go to the Edits section below the video player on the right hand side and click the Chordify version:
To switch back, you can click back or locate the song under your Edits in My Library.
Reset to original chords
If you want to remove all your edits, just click on the Delete button:
Please note that if you do this, you will lose all your changes as they will not be saved.
Sharing chord edits with a friend
After all your hard work, you may well want to spread the news! You can share your chord edits via Facebook, X, Whatsapp, or Email by clicking the Share button near the song title.
You can also just copy the URL from the address bar, and paste it into a message to send to someone else. Personal music files cannot be shared with other users, hence Chordify cannot be used to redistribute music other than through streaming services like YouTube and SoundCloud.
Using someone else’s edit
If someone shares an edit with you, or you open a public edit of a song, you can copy it to your own library, where you can save it, or make further edits to it.
After opening the edited version, when you click the Edit tab you will see this popup message, and you can click Create edit:
The Chordify team is continuously striving to improve your Chordify experience. If something doesn’t work as you would expect it to, please contact us! We are actively working to make Chordify as good as possible, and we are always interested in user feedback.