Help to change/edit chords in EZ keys please

[Rolf Riley]

Hi 🙂

I have had EZ keys for years but never used it. It’s likely an early version.

I have a song I wrote on guitar. I’d like it played on Piano so I’m trying to use EZ keys to play the exact chords but I’m failing so far lol!

I’m a guitarist not a keyboard player. I don’t read music. I’ve bought EZ keys and I’m struggling because it assumes I understand music theory. Ok I should but  it says EZ on the tin right  😉 I’ve used a guitar chord converter to figure out the names of the chords I used on guitar so I could tell EZ keys to play them but it’s not that EZ so far lol!

How do I change chords to Augmented and flatten 6th 3rds etc please?

The chords I need are:

Am9flat6th

Aflat6 no3

Baug no3

Bsus4 flat 6

How do I flatten those 3rd and 6th notes in the chords?

How do I Augment a chord, specifically the Baug?

The wheel doesn’t make this obvious to me, I guess its possible but I’m lost.

Thank you if you can set me straight 🙂

 

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[prafle]

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!

• This post was modified 4 years, 2 months ago by prafle.

[Rolf Riley]

Hi & thank you kindly for taking time to post that for me 🙂 helpful and very much appreciated!

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