I’m pretty new to EZ keys, myself, and it took me a little while to figure out how to access all the chord options.

If you pull up the wheel, then click “Details” at the top of the wheel — it makes a bunch of additional options available to customize each chord.

To make a chord “augmented”: an augmented triad has a major third and a sharp fifth (“+5” in EZ keys), so for your “Baug” chord, start with a B major, then open “Details” and specify “+5”.  It’s weird because they have a dedicated button there for “dim” (diminished) chords (which have a minor third and a flat 5th). It would be obvious to also have an “aug” button.

For those “flat 6th” chords — if it’s a major chord, the “flat 6th” is the same note as a “sharp 5” (often written as “#5” or “+5”).  So open up the “Details” options, then click and hold the “5” and select “+5” from the drop-down menu.

For the “no3” chords, you follow the same procedure (Wheel -> Details…). If you’ve selected a major chord, you’ll see the “3” and “5” lit up. Just uncheck the “3” and you’ll get the “no 3” version.

On that Am9flat6:  first, that’s a really unusual chord. As a result, I think whatever chord converter you’re using is making things more confusing than they need to be.  In a minor chord, the flat 6 is the same as the natural 5th, which is already in an Am9 chord (which should have the notes A, C, E, and B in it). But if it’s the chord I think you mean (X03413 in standard tuning) the notes (low to high) are A, F, B, C, G.  So it’s not really an Am9 chord in my book. It has an F major triad in it (FAC) plus the G, which is the 9th in F major. So it’s an F9. The B is a flat 5 relative to the F, so you end up with an F9b5 chord. The bass note is an A, though, so you’d write it “F9b5/A” — which is easy enough to dial up in EZKeys using the Details menu I mentioned above.  (you could also call it a G7sus4no5

I hope that helps — I guess the short version is that a little music theory does help when you’re trying to match guitar chords on a keyboard. Especially some of those odd guitar chords that can be called by multiple names.

Good luck!

Hope this helps!

Good luck!

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