piano Chord Diagrams

Open a ChordPro lyric (chords written in square brackets, like [G]Amazing [D]grace). On the website, use the Diagrams control; in the apps, tap the three-dot menu and choose Chord Diagrams. Then pick how they appear:

• Off — no diagrams.
• Chord summary — every chord in the song shown once, in a row at the top.
• Inline — a small diagram above each chord, right where it falls in the lyric.
• Bottom, Top, or Right strip — a pinned row (or side panel) of the song's chords that stays in view as you scroll.

Diagrams can be drawn for five instruments, so every player in the band can read the shape that fits their instrument:

• Guitar (standard 6-string tuning)
• Ukulele
• Mandolin (GDAE)
• Bouzouki (Irish GDAD tuning)
• Piano — instead of a fretboard, Band Central draws a one-octave keyboard diagram with the chord's notes highlighted.

You can change what each dot on the diagram shows — pick whichever helps you learn or read the chord fastest:

• Fingering — the finger to use, 1 (index) through 4 (pinky). This is the default.
• Notes — the note name of each string (C, E, G…), including open strings.
• Intervals — each note's scale degree from the root (1, 3, 5, b7…), handy for understanding how the chord is built.
• Dots only — plain dots, with an R marking the root note.

Turn on left-handed shapes to mirror the fretboard (the piano keyboard has no handedness, so this hides for piano). Make diagrams capo-aware (the shape you actually play while the name stays the sounding chord), and adjust the diagram size. Tap or click any chord to flip through alternate voicings and pick the one you use — that voicing choice stays with the song. Diagrams follow the Transpose tool, so they always match the chords on screen.

Chord-diagram settings — on/off, instrument, dot labels, left-handed, capo, and size — are saved to your profile only. Changing them updates your view; it does not change what your bandmates see, so the guitarist can read guitar fingerings while the piano player sees a keyboard, on the same song.

On the website, your chord-diagram settings are a single personal default that applies to every song, in your catalog and in your setlists — set them once and they take effect everywhere, and they sync across your devices. (In the current iPhone, iPad, and Android app versions, chord-diagram settings are still saved per lyric; the single-setting model is rolling out to the apps.)

If a chord needs a specific fingering — an unusual voicing or an alternate tuning — add a ChordPro {define} directive to the lyric and Band Central draws that exact shape instead of the default from its built-in chord library. See the ChordPro define directive for the syntax.

See chord diagrams in action on YouTube.