Instruments
Chordzy comes with many built-in synthesizer instruments you can use with your MIDI keyboard. Pick one in the app and every key you press plays that sound, so a scale can be a harp one day and a trumpet the next. The groups below say what is in the box.
Pianos
There are 48+ unique Piano synthesizers, including many:
- Grand Pianos
- Acoustic Pianos
- Electric Pianos
- Stereo Grands
- Honky-Tonks
- Clavinets
The grand is the one to learn on. The rest are for fun, and the honky-tonk is for when a piece has gone badly and you want to blame the piano.
Guitars
There are 62+ unique Guitar synthesizers, including many:
- Acoustic Guitars
- Electric Guitars
- Nylon Guitars
- Steel Guitars
- Jazz Guitars
- Clean Guitars
A guitar sound on a piano keyboard is odd at first, since a real guitar cannot play what your ten fingers can. Try a chord page with the nylon guitar and hear why so many songs use those same shapes.
Percussion
There are 130 percussion synthesizers, from tuned bars to full drum kits:
- Marimbas
- Glockenspiels
- Celestas
- Music Boxes
- Kalimbas
- Drum Kits
The tuned ones play a scale like a piano does. The drum kits put a different drum on each key, so the keyboard turns into a kit.
Strings
There are 60+ string synthesizers, including:
- Violins
- Violas
- Cellos
- Harps
- Fiddles
Strings hold a note for as long as you hold the key, so a slow scale on the cello shows how even your fingers are far more than a piano does.
Woodwinds
There are 100+ woodwind synthesizers, including:
- Flutes
- Piccolos
- Oboes
- Clarinets
- Bassoons
- English Horns
- Bag Pipes
- Saxophones
Most of these play one note at a time in real life, so a chord on the oboe is a sound no oboe has ever made. The bagpipes are here because someone asked.
Brass
There are 30+ brass synthesizers, including:
- Trumpets
- Trombones
- Tubas
- French Horns
Brass is loud by nature. Play a melody on the trumpet with the left hand quiet and you get a good lesson in balance for free.