The Transpose Chords tools is opened from the workspace with the Tools-Transpose Chords command.
It is a handy tool which lets you enter a series of chords (such as from a chord sequence in a song), and explore which chords they will become when transposed to a different key.
The Original and Transpose chord lists are colored blue as with other areas in the ChordWizard workspace. You can change these colors with the Display Options.
Controls
Add Chord >>
Opens a popup chord matrix so that you can select a new chord to add to the Original Chords list.
Each cell in the matrix represents the chord based on the chord type in the row heading and the root note in the column heading.
Clicking on a cell in the matrix adds the new chord to the Original Chords list and closes the matrix again.
Original Chords
Holds the series of chords that you have selected.
Each time you make a change to the Original Chords list, the Transpose Chord list is updated automatically. See below for more detail on the transposing.
If you select a chord in the Original Chords list, its corresponding chord in the Transpose Chords list will also be selected so that you can compare the difference between them.
Play Original Chord
Plays the chord currently selected in the Original Chords list.
Remove
Removes the selected chord from the Original Chords list. The corresponding chord in the Transpose Chords list is also removed.
Transpose Chords
Contains an equivalent series of chords to those in the Original Chords list, but shows the result of transposing them to the new key.
If you select a chord in the Transpose Chords list, its corresponding chord in the Original Chords list will also be selected so that you can compare the difference between them.
Play Transpose Chord
Plays the chord currently selected in the Transpose Chords list.
Original Key
Transpose Key
These two dropdown lists control the way in which the chords are transposed from one key to another.
The exact keys you select are not so important in themselves as the interval between them. For example you will get the same transposition with keys of C->D as with D->E because both of these have an interval of two semitones, or a second.
In general though, you will know what musical key you are starting with and which key you want to change to and these controls provide a convenient way to specifying just that.
For example, say you have a chord sequence of Cmaj / Am / Fmaj / G7 in the key of C, and you want to transpose to the key of F, so that the chords suit your vocal range better.
You would select C for the Original Key, and F for the Transpose Key. The chords in the Transpose Chords list would then appear as Fmaj / Dm / Bbmaj / C7.
Try playing these chords in sequence (by clicking on the list items) and you will see that they present the same feel of the music, just differently pitched.
Close
Closes the Transpose Chords window and returns to the workspace.
Help
Opens ChordWizard Help at this topic.
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