At the heart of ChordWizard is an engine for identifying the matching chords of a chordshape. This is the main focus of Design View.
This is great for those situations where you have discovered a chordshape that makes a sound you like, but you don't know what chord it is making.
For example, the chordshape 075707 on guitar is not commonly known, but makes a rich open sound.
Step-By-Step
Step 1
First of all, you need to be in Design View. Check the bottom of the workspace and make sure that the Design tab is selected. If it isn't, click on it.
Step 2
You may get a message box asking if you want to set a filter. This can be useful for designing new chordshapes, but we don't need it here, so click No.
In fact, we want to make sure there is no filter active, because ChordWizard is going to tell us what chord we are playing. We can remove the filter setting with the following command:
| Button | Key | Menu |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Filter-Remove |
If this button or menu item is disabled, it means there is already no filter setting.
Step 3
Now we need to enter the chordshape 075707, which can be done in two ways. Firstly you can click on the Fretboard where the fingers are placed in the chordshape.
Or you can type in the chordshape digits into the Design Panel. Either way, the Design Panel should end up showing our chordshape tablature notation as shown. As you enter each string you will hear the sound of it.
Step 4
Once the chordshape is entered, any matching chords that ChordWizard has found will appear in the Matching Chord list as shown.
In this case, we have discovered that our chordshape makes an Em7 chord. Sometimes, more than one matching chord may appear, see here for details.
Step 5
You may now want to add this chordshape to your library, so that you can find it again more easily from Library View. You can do this with the following command:
| Button | Key | Menu |
| Enter | Chordshape-Add |
Step 6
Sometimes, no matching chords appear because the chordshape is very unusual, or because your playing level is not set high enough for the correct chord type to be activated.
In this case, you can use the Power Match window to analyze the chordshape more intensively and provide a good result.
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