Keybed Harmony

The purpose of KeybedHarmony is to provide a picture highlighting the necessary keys for a particular chord or scale. The user-interface makes it quick and easy for users to create bespoke 'keybed' diagrams and is responsive to variety of screen sizes. The layout is optimised for printing out on paper, removing unnecessary user interface and allowing for sizing so that visualisations can be easily shared outside the digital domain.

The example above shows the notes of the chord CMajor7 highlighted in yellow. The C Major Scale is also labelled across the top of each key. The 'Show Controls' button reveals the interface controls for highlighting a particular scale or chord and various customisations, experiment with the controls to discover more.

Custom options and controls

Highlight scales

• Highlight all the notes of a scale or chord from a particular root note.
• If no chord is selected then the chosen scale highlights the scale.

Highlight chords and label a scale

• If a chord is chosen then a specific voicing and inversion can be selected.
• If a chord is displayed then users can label the keybed with a scale alongside highlighted keys which helps identify potential melodic opportunites. Select a root note from 'label scale with chord select box' and then select from the scale options.
• Remember to turn the labelling feature off if only wanting to view scales (as in the previous example).

Extra Features

• Select a white-key to begin the keybed diagram.
• Link Keybed Start Note to Root.
• Link Keybed Start Note to Lowest Note In Inversion.
• Select an octave.

Creating Diagrams To Visualise Chord Progressions

In the following example a popular chord progression has been created, each keybed diagram identifies the notes of a different chord. Each chord inversion has been selected to minimise the physical finger movement between each chord, simplifying for the left-hand chord movements.

The final keybed diagram also shows the C Major scale labelled along the top of the keys, displaying a reference for the melodic opportunites of the major scale. Now there is enough information in the diagrams to play a melody from the major scale in the right hand.

Progression Tools

Above the first keyed is a button labelled 'Show Progression Tools' clicking this reveals the user interface for global progression settings.

• Add Empty Keybed
• Delete Progression
• Octave up / down
• Show keybed stave
• Show proogression stave
• Reverse Progression

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

The reverse button provides a quick and interesting alternative option for further practice variations and development. Reversing the progression can often have surprising results.

Stacking keybeds together provides a foundation for visualising harmony in closer detail, whether it is discovering types of chord-voicing, common chord-progressions or even harmoonising scales. Keep reading to find out more.

Exploring Harmony

Stacking Keybed Diagrams together enables more advanced harmonic concepts to be illustrated, from chord voicing and inversions to harmonising scales and voiceleading chord progressions. Keybedharmony provides a platform to visualise an wide array of different harmonic concepts.

Find out more about how keybedharmony can help further knowledge of harmony.