Exploring Harmony

Stacking keybed diagrams one on top of another enables more advanced harmonic concepts to be illustrated, from topics like chord voicing and inversions to harmonising scales and voiceleading chord progressions. Keybedharmony provides a platform to visualise an wide variety of different harmonic concepts.

Chord Voicing And Inversions

Display a chord from a specfic voicing and its neighbouring inversions to help experiment moving between the different inversions of a chord. Try it out here to find out more about creating chord inversion keybed diagrams.

Generate Scale Harmonisations

Select any seven-note diatonic scale and then choose from a list of harmonisations using a specifc set of chords derived from the scale.

Each harmonisation follows a strict voiceleading as well as one of the voices of each chord outlining the sequential scale notes. Find out more about creating scale harmonisations.

Generate Diatonic Cycles

Select any seven-note diatonic scale and then choose from cycle that moves through the chords of the scale following a specific pathway/pattern.

While diatonic cycles are quite tricky concepts there are some examples that many early-intermediate pianists would be familiar with. Most beginnger piano players will be familiar with the concept explained at the following link, Discover more about generating diatonic cycles with KeybedHarmony.

A closely related but more complicated example which features voiceleading can be found at this link, Discover more about generating diatonic cycles with KeybedHarmony.

Subscriber Exclusive Features!

Registered users get access to extra features to simplify the process of creating keybed diagrams, such as transposition, cycle progressions through inversion types, chord progression stave and an unlimited number of keybeds! Sign up today, it is free

• Subscribers exclusive
• Display more than five keybed diagrams
• Transpose up / down by a semi-tone
• Cycle the inversion of the chords in the progression