Chordify for Beginners - A great learning tool!

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I don’t represent Chordify in any way - just want to share how it can help beginners.

The Chordify app or webpage is an excellent tool for beginners. Here are a few reasons why it can help us to learn and create a lot of very enjoyable moments with your guitar.

  • It plays actual recordings of songs providing the correct chords, and sometimes multiple different versions
  • I think with the paid version you can slow down the song to help play along
  • You can search for songs that have the chords you are learning. For instance, if you are learning C D G (who isn’t?) it will find recordings using those chords only AND songs that use those chords and others in them. Fantastic!!!
  • I am finding that it is helping me with timing, speed and accuracy
  • It works great with Justin’s course because as you learn chords, you can look for the songs he suggests and others that have the chords you are currently learning in his excellent course
  • You can really see your progress as you begin to play along. A song I couldn’t touch two weeks ago, I am close to being able to play now. (Nothing difficult mind you but wonderful to see because it means that Justin’s methods are working!!!)
  • I’m not sure but my guess is that in time you will be able to improvise a bit while you are playing along. WOW won’t that be exciting!!!

Anyway, hope this helps a little and have a great day!!!

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I don’t represent Chordify either.

I discovered Chordify a year or so ago and like you I use it to learn the songs that Justin suggests. I signed up to use Justin’s app but wanted something that I could use on a PC. My approach is:

  1. Take a song that Justin suggests e.g. Killing Me Softly.
  2. Go to Chordify and find the song. One thing you can also do in Chordify is transpose the key to the key that Justin has suggested - useful where Justin has simplified it for beginners.
  3. Print out the chord sheet from Chordify and I usually compare it to Justin’s tab.
  4. Then I go to Guitar Pro and set the song up with those chords and the strumming pattern that Justin has suggested e.g. Old Faithful. I can also vary the BPM in GP. Practice practice practice.
  5. Then when I think I’m ready I can go back to Chordify and play along with the actual song.
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I’ve been using Chordify for a while and its definitely one of my favourite apps. I have trouble keeping up in real time so have to slow them down a tad!

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That sounds like a great idea! The app works really well with Justin’s course.

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Me too but think about where we were weeks ago! :slight_smile: I also find that on songs where the chord changes occur infrequently, you can focus on precision.

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I’ve been using chordify for a while now. I found it better than justin’s alternative and I’m able to find songs I like, actually can upload pretty much any song. I can across this post because my concern is it might lock me into a guitar karaoke level. I’m wondering how to break from being reliant on chordify or similar to tell me well to change chords?

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Step 1 is to memorise the chord progressions in the song. Lieven has done a couple of club sessions on how to go about this. All the verses are usually the same and the chorus and maybe a bridge. So usually only 3 progressions to memorise. Like anything it takes some practice but it’s achievable.
Step 2 is to play along with the original without the use of an app.

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