A collection of free MIDI chords and progressions ready to be used in your DAW, Akai MPC, or Roland MC-707/101

Last update: Jan 05, 2023

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Overview

Free MIDI Chords

This is a collaborative project to create a collection of all chords and useful chord progressions in all keys, as MIDI files, usable with your favorite DAW.

This collection is FREE and you can contribute to it using the issue tracker above. Please use the bug tracker if you find incorrect chords!

All the MIDI files are licensed under the MIT license, and you can them use in any musical project freely.

More details in my blog
Quick Video demo with Ableton

Installation

Just download and unzip one of the release file. Then drag and drop the MIDI files from your DAW to your tracks.

The chords collection is organized using 3 levels of directories:

1st level: All 12 Major and Minor keys
2nd level:
- 1/ Triads
- 2/ 7ths and 9ths chords
- 3/ All other chords
- 4/ Chord progressions
3rd level: Major and Minor scales

Below the progressions directory, you'll find 3 more directories. They contain the same MIDI chord progressions files but with different timings: basic4 style, alt4 style and hiphop style.

How to contribute

To suggest new chords for the next chord pack:

Go to new chords suggestions
Or send me a PM

The script uses chords2midi from Rich Jones, and Python Mingus.

chords2midi - Create MIDI files from numerical chord progressions.

The following software is also bundled with this chords pack:

Ludovic Drolez.

Comments

Manque les fichiers .mid !

Hello ! Juste pour info, il manque l'export des fichiers .mid dans la toute dernière release ! ;) Merci pour ce taf en tout cas, très utile merci !! @barbomusic

opened by philippebarbosa 2
Help with chords names
Hi,

First, this is great! Well done!

I am a complete beginner in music production. I just had my first piano class, because I want to learn a bit of music to be able to make my EDM tracks. I have two questions:

I know is out of the scoop, but I am quite confused (because of my lack of knowledge) with some files names and their meaning. For example, what all those letters mean at C - bIIIM ii bIIM I.mid file? If you could just explain a bit the meaning of those letters would be fantastic and very appreciated.

Because I'm just starting, I don't want (and don't have money) to spend money on Ableton right now. So, I'm using free software (Qtractor). I've so far only worked with audio samples, so I'm new to MIDI. After I imported the MIDI file to my DAW, do I need to "add" an instrument to it or something? And my instrument, do you mean a vst plugin or something else?

Sorry for these sillies questions, but I hope you can help me kick off here.

Thank you a lot, Castle
documentation
opened by oldcastlehq 2
Add .gitignore and .gitkeep

Previously, the user would have to create their own dist directory if they wanted to successfully make the project. Now, the dist directory is already in the project (without any of its contents).

This also allows for more convenient pulling if you want to make a change without having to delete all the residue from a compilation.

opened by PinkSunDev 0
Other feature request

@ldrolez thx for your very very nice work :)

I suggest adding something else.

Pure rythm midi files. It would be super helpful to have all "standard" stuff like 4x 8th etc.

I am using FL studio and you can have that super nice ghostnotes. Having rythm midis would make live so much simpler idea finding.
new chords

opened by egandro 1
Generate guitar chord midi

What I mean by guitar chord is to have guitar chord represented as midi. Like if it was Em chord. It will be E2 B2 E3 G3 B3 E4. You get the idea. It will be easy to use midi instead finding what to play for a chord manually. Atleast for me or anyone who don't play guitar. And emulate guitar using instrument plugins.

opened by ghost 0
My fork of Dan Hamer's free chord pack

Hello, ldrolez! This is not really an issue, just a heads-up. Have you heard of the chord pack Dan Hamer posted on the WATMM subreddit? Well, I made an even better version of it, with additional help by Hamer himself! I fixed A LOT of filenames and folder structures. You can get it here. Hope it's useful enough for your archive!
new chords

opened by fotisandstuff 5

Releases(v0.20220623)

v0.20220623(Jun 30, 2022)

Added 3 minor and 2 major chord progressions including the famous Andalusian cadence. 110 chords progressions.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20220623.zip(3.12 MB)
free-midi-progressions-20220623.zip(1.87 MB)
v0.20211125(Dec 5, 2021)

Added 2 minor and 3 major chord progressions Now we have 105 progressions per key! The free-midi-progressions ZIP contains only the chord progressions for your MPC or Groovebox
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20211125.zip(3.02 MB)
free-midi-progressions-20211125.zip(1.79 MB)
v0.20210811(Aug 18, 2021)

Added 3 minor and 3 major chord progressions Now we have 100 progressions per key! The free-midi-progressions ZIP contains only the chord progressions for your MPC or Groovebox
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20210811.zip(2.90 MB)
free-midi-progressions-20210811.zip(1.69 MB)
v0.20210411(Apr 17, 2021)

Added 8 chord progressions. Now we have 94 progressions per key. Fixed 1 chord progression.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20210411.zip(2.78 MB)
v0.20210209(Feb 19, 2021)

Added 5 new major and 5 minor chord progressions.
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20210209.zip(2.61 MB)
v0.20210113(Jan 14, 2021)

6336 MIDI files Added the missing m7b9b5 chords All chord progressions are now available in 4 rhythmic styles
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20210113.zip(2.41 MB)
v0.20201119(Nov 20, 2020)

Added 3 minor chord progressions All chords are now 1 octave above
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20201119.zip(1.19 MB)
v0.20201014(Oct 14, 2020)

Fixed the chord progressions with borrowed chords Added 3 progressions with a bVII chord
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20201014.zip(1.17 MB)
v0.20201010(Oct 10, 2020)

Initial release 3500 chords and progressions
Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
free-midi-chords-20201010.zip(1.16 MB)

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A collection of free MIDI chords and progressions ready to be used in your DAW, Akai MPC, or Roland MC-707/101

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Free MIDI Chords

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Comments

Manque les fichiers .mid !

Help with chords names

Add .gitignore and .gitkeep

Other feature request

Generate guitar chord midi

My fork of Dan Hamer's free chord pack

Releases(v0.20220623)

v0.20220623(Jun 30, 2022)

v0.20211125(Dec 5, 2021)

v0.20210811(Aug 18, 2021)

v0.20210411(Apr 17, 2021)

v0.20210209(Feb 19, 2021)

v0.20210113(Jan 14, 2021)

v0.20201119(Nov 20, 2020)

v0.20201014(Oct 14, 2020)

v0.20201010(Oct 10, 2020)

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