FolkScore Backing Group

Photograph a tune or paste it in ABC, and get backing chords that suit its mode, with DADGAD shapes and capo worked out. Click any chord to try the alternatives, then play along. Include up to three tunes to create a set.

Read a sheet from a photo or PDF£

A charge has to be made to pay for an external AI for this feature.

Take a photo Choose photos or a PDF

Or drop them here, or paste a screenshot. Up to 4 pages make one reading.

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Your readings are kept with this code. Copy it somewhere safe to use them on another device.

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Reading service address

Tune 1 ABC notation

Paste ABC from any tune site, or drop an .abc or .txt file here

Tune 2 ABC notation if required

Paste the next tune of the set here

Tune 3 ABC notation if required

Paste the third tune here

Play

Tune in this file

My tunes

Saved on this device, with your chord choices. Sets keep their tunes and the times through each. Every sheet you have read is saved here automatically.

Chord labels

Key and mode

DADGAD capo

Key and pitch Change the key

Press a note to move the tune to that key.

Fine-tune the pitch, to play with bagpipes or another instrument that can't be retuned

A =440 Hz

Slide until the backing matches the drones. Pipe music is written in A but sounds higher, so start at a preset and adjust by ear.

Chord changes Chord on the pickup notes

Read the tune in

Take it away

♩ =120 Repeat

The bandVolume

Tune

Backing 1

Backing 2

Bass

Bodhrán

Click

Chord shapes

Compare with your original

Click a chord, or any note under it, to see the next-best options for that part of the bar. Play gives a one-bar count-in, then the backing, following the repeats. Tick Tune to hear the melody, pick one part to practise, or let it speed up each time round. In full screen, the arrow keys, space bar and page-turner pedals scroll the music.