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Chord Warrior

Two chords in, every way their voices can pair up out, cheapest first. The tones that hold, the ones that step, and the semitones each one travels, in pitch classes and on no instrument.

Open the Calculator What It Measures

A free voice-leading calculator for players and writers: two chord symbols in, every one-to-one pairing of their voices out, ranked by the semitones the voices travel, with the common tones named and each step signed up or down — worked out in pitch classes, on no instrument and in no key, and checked by brute force before it ships.

How a Lead Is Measured

1

Read Both Chords

Each chord symbol is read as a set of pitch classes, the twelve note names with octave set aside. A symbol the reader does not recognise is reported as unread, never guessed.

2

Pair Every Voice

Every voice of the first chord is matched with exactly one voice of the second, and every possible matching is tried, so no two voices ever lead from the same note.

3

Count the Semitones

Each voice’s step is measured the shorter way round the octave and the steps are added up. The cheapest pairing comes first, ties side by side, with the common tones named.

What Lives Here

The Calculator

Type two chord symbols and every pairing of their voices comes back ranked, with the common tones held and each step in semitones.

Chord Neighbours

Pick a chord type and see every chord one voice of it reaches, a semitone or a whole tone away, with what each one spells.

Named Transforms

Every transform a cited source names, from P, L and R to the seventh-chord steps, measured voice by voice on C.

About

What the calculator measures, what it leaves to its sisters, and how every count is checked before it ships.

FAQ

What counts as a step, why there is no key and no instrument, and how a tie between two leads is shown.

Theme Builder

Four colours in, a contrast-checked palette out, for every table of voices and steps.

The Site That Measures the Space Between Chords

The rest of the Warrior Network publishes chords: drawn on instruments, taught on the theory site, strung into progressions in their own styles. This site does the one thing none of them does — it takes two chords and measures how far each voice has to travel from one to the other. It names no chord’s sound and plays nothing; it measures, and shows its working.