Short videos showing Chord & Go in action. Press ▶ to watch a video right here, or tap anywhere else on it to open it on YouTube.
All your chords, lyrics and setlists in one app
Chord & Go keeps your chords, lyrics and setlists on your phone or tablet — for rehearsal, for the gig, for the stage. This video shows what the app does: how you bring in your songs from Word, PDF, sheet music or a photo — even of handwritten lyrics — how you write your own in three formats, and what it gives you on stage: full screen, night mode, search inside the lyrics and tabs for each live show. Plus the tools you always have with you: a tuner, a metronome, chord detection from an audio file, SongBook management for Korg arranger keyboards, and lessons on piano and guitar chords, the seven modes and nineteen Greek dromoi with their makams.
How to create a song with chords and lyrics
Step by step: how to build a song in Chord & Go, whether you import it from a file or write it from scratch. The key is that you’re not just writing text: every piece has a role — a title, a lyric, a chord, the structure. That’s why the app can later transpose only the chords, hide the chords for the singer, or find a song from a single line of its lyrics. You’ll also see the three writing modes: Musician, with chords above the lyrics; Singer, with lyrics only in larger type; and Table, with your whole repertoire on one page.
Keep the whole band on the same song
When you play with a band, the worst thing is everyone hunting for the song on their own phone. With a group session, one person sets their device as the Main device and everyone else follows: whatever they open opens automatically on the others — and each player sees their own version of the same song: the guitarist with chords, the singer with lyrics only. It works across phones and tablets of every kind, over WiFi and Bluetooth, together or separately. After the first connection the devices remember each other and reconnect on their own.
Connect your tablet to a Korg Pa5X over MIDI
Connect a tablet to an arranger keyboard over MIDI and the tablet becomes the control centre of your gig. Pick an entry in the instrument’s SongBook and the matching song opens automatically on the tablet, with your own lyrics and chords — you never touch the screen between numbers. In this video: the cable from the Pa5X’s USB Device port (the square, type B one), the setup in the instrument’s MIDI Presets so it listens and talks on the right channels, and matching each SongBook entry number to the file ID in the app.
Turn any screen into your stage prompter
Whatever you see on your device can show up on a big screen — a computer, a television or any device with a browser. Useful for the musician who wants bigger type, for the singer who would rather not lean over a phone, even for showing lyrics to the audience. You always stay in control: the big screen shows only what you tell it to, and it freezes on what it was showing while you look for the next song. Two ways to connect, and both can run at the same time: over WiFi, with an address you open in a browser, or by cable (HDMI, USB-C) and AirPlay.
Scan or import sheet music into your device
Printed sheet music doesn't have to stay on paper. There are two ways to bring a score into Chord & Go: a MusicXML file goes straight in, and a printed score — on paper or as a PDF — you photograph or import, and it goes through recognition, so the printed page comes alive. It works with printed scores, not handwritten ones; for the best result keep the whole page in frame, straight, with even light and no shadows. And if you only want to look at a score without playing it, put it in Files as a PDF, for free.
Medleys and favourites: organise your setlist
Two features that look alike but do completely different jobs. A medley is an ordered list: songs, PDF files and images mixed together in the order you'll play them, and in View they appear one after another, continuously — no searching between numbers. Favourites are not an order but a shortcut: tick whatever you use most, from one list of every type of file, and find it in its own tab. In short: medleys for what you play and in what order, favourites for what you need all the time.
Piano and guitar chords, modes and makam
Five interactive lessons in theory and practice, inside the same app you take on stage: pick a key, see it, hear it. Piano chords — 32 types in five categories, with every inversion, heard together or arpeggiated. Guitar chords — real, playable positions with finger numbers, barre chords and unplayed strings marked. European modes — all seven, with their characteristic chords and the matching makam. Makam — nineteen scales of the eastern tradition. Pentatonic scales — major, minor, blues and exotic. Note names follow your own setting: C D E or do re mi.
Chromatic tuner and a metronome you can program
Two tools you always have with you. The chromatic tuner recognises every note through the microphone, with no need to tell it your instrument or string: you see the note, the cents and the frequency, the fan shows how high or low you are, and it tells you in words to tighten or loosen. The metronome has sample accuracy and never drifts: 20 to 300 BPM with the slider, the buttons or tap tempo, time signatures up to 16/16, and every beat can be accented, normal or muted to build any pattern. It keeps playing even when you leave its screen, so you can rehearse your song with the beat running.
Falling notes on piano and guitar — Live Score
Pick one of your scores and hear it on piano or guitar while the notes fall onto the keys or the fretboard — you see exactly where the fingers go. Slow it down and build up, change the key, or loop a hard section by tapping its first and last measure. Turn one hand off and play it yourself over a real accompaniment. With a MIDI instrument connected, Wait mode stops at every note until you play it correctly, and a wrong key turns red. Metronome, count-in and note names are in the options, and the app remembers your choices.
Find the chords of a song — Chord recognition
Give the app some music and it gives you back the chords. Let your device listen — a speaker, the radio or the band next to you — or pick a music file or a video; if the music is playing inside another app, record the screen with sound and pick that recording. Then play the song and watch the chords go by in sync, and if you like the result, save it as a song in your library to fix it, add lyrics or change the key. The chords are spelled to fit the key: in F you'll see B flat, not A sharp.
Edit your Korg SongBook from your device
If you play a Korg arranger, your SongBook is the heart of your work — now you can work on it inside the app. From Tools → SongBook, tap the plus and choose your instrument's .KST or .SET folder. Tap an entry to change its name, number, genre, artist, tempo, meter, key, transpose, memory and style start, with a keyboard and a big screen; press and drag songs to reorder a list. The save icon writes the changes back to the same file, ready for the instrument. Each entry's number is the same ID Chord & Go uses, so picking an entry on the instrument opens the matching song on your device. Supports the Korg Pa3X generation and later — always keep a copy of your folder first.
Back up and restore your library
Settings are grouped into four parts: appearance, connections, data and privacy. Create backup saves your entire library — files, songs, scores, lists, favourites and your settings — to your device or to the cloud, and it travels: a backup made on one device restores on another, even when you change phones. But restoring does not merge, it replaces: everything you have now is replaced by what is in the backup, so the app asks you to confirm first. Keep a backup when you change devices and before any big change to your library.