Custom Chord Diagrams

It's such a pity there isn't a way to add alternative fingerings to the bank of chord diagrams. Even a simple chord like D7 has only fingerings for nut, bar on fret 5, bar on fret 10, and bar on fret 12 -what about the C7 shape moved up the D root is on the A string 5th fret, the 3rd on D string 4th fret, the 7th on G string 5th and root on B string 3rd fret; it seems such an obvious fingering. But there are lots of other common fingerings for chords, surely a simple editor, either click and point or even json or xml text shouldn't be too difficult to implement.

Perhaps the next version.

I use a lot of chord shapes not currently available. I came to the forum to see if there was a way. Thanks to your post I can stop looking. I wish there was a way to add them too.

there are some additions in guitar diagrams in the v6.2 update.

The ability to edit a chord shape and give it a name or link it to an existing name would be very useful and, having chosen chord inversions in the play window, to have those saved with the song.

I would have welcomed this functionality. for example. gypsy chords are quite incomplete. mind if i have the ability to assign a set of chord music style

Another vote for the ability to customize chord diagrams.

This goes along with the rootless chord voicing thread, so I whole heartedly agree.

I totally agree there should be some way to modify or create custom chords and diagrams. This is a great app and this feature would make it even better!

Another vote for user definable chords (and guitar fingerings).

Another huge vote for this unavoidable ability !!!

Pianists ! You are also concerned by this request !

Indeed, it's the ONLY WAY to obtain a correct accompaniment and satisfy the various requests on missing chords and missing chords inversion.
The problem is that A PIANO, IS NOT A GUITAR, WHICH IS NOT A UKULELE.
If you play (with app) for example, Minor Swing (with correct chords !), with accoustic guitar and Gypsy Swing style both selected, you can hear the accompaniment which would be produced by a Christmas toy !
I don't speak about the (improvable) sound's quality but the chords positions used which are eventually adapted to a piano.
It's the same with all songs written for guitar (or ukulele).
Currently, the chords positions which are used by the app are unlikely for strings instruments.
Many songs can not be correctly played with another instrument selection than the piano if the chords are not customizable.
With editable, savable and playable customized chords, it would be the paradise !
This is also valid for pianists because I am not convinced that all the preselected chords always suit them.
The iReal community can then rewrite new songs adaptations for each type of instrument, if it's necessary. This is not the biggest difficulty !

However, if the app has been programmed on chords construction theory and not on chords diagrams approach, this looks like a losing battle !

Can the development team tell us if there is a hope or not ?
Thanks for reading

I add my encouragement to add chord diagrams to the library, although it would need to be done such that using any of them would "define them in the song" so that they get included when sharing a song. I think this is especially important for ukulele, with just 4 strings it helps to customize fingerings a lot. Several of the most popular and great sounding inversions do not show up in standard libraries because they omit the root note, like 2020 for D7. Take a look for example at the implementation in the application "Songbook", which I use a lot.

It's such a pity and there are some additions Perhaps the next version

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Originally Posted by cameroonjames

It's such a pity and there are some additions Perhaps the next version

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Yes, please add 6/9#11 voicing, e.g. C6/9#11: x32232 or 87777x

Or give us the possibility to add chords

This can be quite complex to achieve. iRealPro uses different voicings for any particular chord type.
An option to choose between closed and open voicings would be great for a particular song.
Customized voicings is a good idea but I'm afraid it might me too complex to implement.
However, some important chord types are still missing, and I wish those would be added in the future: minor add9 without 7th (1,b3,5,9), major b5 without 7th (1,3,b5), dominant 9 without 3rd (1,5,b7,9)

Need rootless and custom position/fingering... I.E. I want to play G7 but 6 :) Without change all the song library!

What do mean by "G7 but 6"?

I just bought iReal Pro and it doesn't support two BASIC functions. No chords on eighth notes and no way to add/edit chord voicings. The open position CM7 isn't even in the library! I just wanted a good charting tool. Unfortunately this product is useless to me. I wasted my money. Good news it was only $20. :(

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I just bought iReal Pro and it doesn't support two BASIC functions. No chords on eighth notes and no way to add/edit chord voicings. The open position CM7 isn't even in the library! I just wanted a good charting tool. Unfortunately this product is useless to me. I wasted my money. Good news it was only $20. :(

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Swipe the large chord diagrams in the app for additional voicings

Welcome to the forums
:))BOB

open position CM7:

I see this has been an issue for a long time... any word on whether they are considering adding the ability to change existing chord diagrams or to create new ones? Thanks!

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Originally Posted by jshelton

I see this has been an issue for a long time... any word on whether they are considering adding the ability to change existing chord diagrams or to create new ones? Thanks!

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Some alternate voicings can be displayed. (Doesn't affect playback) As the "big" chord diagrams are flashing by during play, tap the diagram to pause, swipe left/right to see available alternate voicings. Tap to restart play.
:))BOB

different chord voicing within a single song
would it be possible? Or is it for iReal Utopia?

Another vote for custom chords and fingerings! I was just trying to add a very popular guitar version of Night in Tunisia to iReal Pro and it’s just impossible because you can’t include A7#9b13 for example. Also, is there really no way to use different fingerings when a chord appears in different bars in the same song? That’s not Pro at all :(

All the guitarists I work with know all the chords like that. Check out this site: http://songmaven.com/online-music-to...ords-chart.php

P.S. You don't have to play all the notes of the chords, particularly the root and the fifth.

Sorry, I misunderstood your post. Your chord is in iReal as: A7#9#5.

You can use A7#9#5. It's basically the same as A7#9b13

Thanks again for this wonderful app! I’m an ukulele teacher and I’d love to have the ability to create my own ukulele chord charts for my student. Your options are cool, there’s just simpler ways to play them that I’d like to add.
Thanks!
Dani Joy

A great feature would be the ability to assign chord fingerings per measure -- not just per song. (See attached image.)

BACKGROUND RE CHORD FONTS: Several iReal Pro player fonts (e.g., Guitar font) show chord-fingerings, and the user can long-tap any chord in the chart to select from alternative fingerings. For example, for a Gm7 chord in measure 3, when I currently choose a fingering, that fingering populates all other Gm7 chords in the song. But in Bar 28, because now the adjacent chords are different, I may need to play a Gm7 at a alternate position -- up or down the fret-board. But, to reiterate, currently when a Gm7 fingering gets chosen, all measures with that chord show that fingering.

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ANother vote for customized chords... may be just through the ability to insert a picture in the lyrics text , if it's too much work to implement a genuine chord editor.

I totally second this suggestion. This is one of the key features missing. It is seldom that the same fingering for a chord will be used throughout a song. Limiting the choice to one fingering per song really is very limiting. Please implement.

Hello all. iRealPro is the most useful app I have ever tried and I really love it.

I miss a few features which I believe would improve hugely what is already an excellent app:

1) the capability to asign custom chord shapes, alternative and perhaps non-standard fingerings for chords.It will neve be possible for the programme itself to include every single chord shape/fingering out there. If I had the capability to assign my own additional and perhaps non standard fingerings to chords, this would seriously expand the existing vocabulary. It would be even better if we users, could share those extra shapes with everybody else.

2) The capability to use different fingerings for the same chord in a song. It is very often that I want to use the same chord, say FMaj7, several times in a song, but played at different positions on the fretboard. This is very usual because chord fingepring will depend on the previous and following chords and having one single fingering throughout a whole song reduced seriously expressiveness.

3) When creating or editing a song, it would be helpful to allow the choice of a blank chord box, in which I could then asign fret number and notes, to input a totally personal chord. The program could perhaps recognise this chord and offer alternative names, in the same way other programs recognise chords (I do not want to mention App names here but I am sure you know of them).

Not too many requests and I understand that some have already been put forth by other members.

Congratulations on a great App. Please keep it going and improving all the time.

Wow… :eek: I thought this program was supposed to be the ultimate. I’m shocked to find that you can’t add your own custom chord diagrams. Please do something about this! Please! :)

I'm a fairly beginner jazz guitarist, mostly concentrate on classical and folk. I just bought this app after reading rave reviews, and like others on this thread, am disappointed that the chord diagram feature is so limiting. Of course, it's great if we have a bunch of them memorised, and don't need diagrams at all. I have a relatively small number of moveable chords memorised, that cover all the most common jazz voicings. But surely, customisable chord diagrams are possible? It would be a HUGE benefit for those using this app to improve their playing.