The document that opens is a sheet document. You can use the mouse to create notes on the document by clicking in the appropriate spot. A blue note will appear where you wish to insert the note into the document.

Guide markers will appear if the note to be inserted is above or below the staff lines.


Click on a note to select it and then it will appear red. Position the mouse above or below this note to add notes to the chord.


After selecting one or more notes, use the toolbar to change the type of note it is. Multiple notes can be selected when changing a property on a note.


Keyboard input.

W- whole note

H - half notes

Q - quarter note

E - eighth note

Y - sixteenth note

R - rest

S - sharp

F - flat

D - dot

T - tie


Other types of input

On the chords tab , select a guitar chord, and click "Add to sheet"


On the Generated chords panel, select add chord to add a chord to the document.

Sheet editor document
Go to file and select New Sheet Document

The document that opens is a sheet document.  You can use the mouse to create notes on the document by clicking in the appropriate spot. A blue note will appear where you wish to insert the note into the document.

Guide markers will appear if the note to be inserted is above or below the staff lines.

Sheet tab

MIDI Device : Default is Microsoft General Sound Wavetable
Track Type : G Clef - E G B D F,  F Clef - G B D F A
                     G(2) Clef - G Clef but raised an octave

Group: Piano, Chrome Percussion, Organ, Guitar, Bass, Strings, Ensemble, Brass, Reed, Pipe, Synth Lead, Synth Pad

Tempo : Beats per minute

Time sig : Changes the signature and also automatically and number of notes per measure

Number Tracks : Number of tracks appearing in the sheet music

Scale : Zoom the sheet in or out

Beats selected : number of beats selected when dragging the mouse over the notes

Index : position of the note in the track on the sheet music editor

Note : Name of the note and the octave it is in

Loop to : first selected a note and type the note index of where to loop the music to after hitting the selected note

Loop count: number of times the loop occurs when playing the music

Volume : MIDI volume of the selected group of notes

Pan : slide left to play the note from the left speaker, and slide right to play the note from the right speaker

Chords tab

Select a root note, quality and starting fret.  Then you may add the note to the sheet document or to a chord diagram sheet.

Chords, a freeware program written by me

Chords is a freeware midi program, it runs on any windows machine. MIDI music generally sounds better on a professional MIDI synthesiser but Microsoft MIDI is adequate. I wrote the program so that no instruments were required to generate the music, you simple pick a chord progression that you think sounds nice, add the chords, then begin editing the music in a variety of ways.

You can use the mouse to simply add new notes wherever you please, you can delete notes you don't feel sound right. You can copy and paste music progressions that you think sound nice, there really isn't a better way to make music with just a mouse and keyboard.

The software has not been updated in a while but getting support from users will definitely spark my interesting in further developments. Thank you anyone for reading this blog.

Please feel free to send suggestions. Even simple MIDI progressions sound pleasing and relaxing.

Chords download website