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Guitar Chord Explorer – User comments

Here are a few comments from people who have used GCE.  These comments have been received by email, and also collected from online forums, reviews, blogs and personal websites.

Amazing ... very helpful
      7th May 2009
Incredible Chord finder page!
      1st March 2009
Hey, your guitar explorer rocks! Thanks!
      19th February 2009
Cool site!
      8th December 2008
A most excellent program! very smart/clean/efficient/functional layout.
      26th November 2008
I've used many chord explorers ... But this could very well be the best (at least out of those I've seen so far) ... I had a lot of help from it while searching for chord voicing names when writing transcriptions ... Kudos to Michael Hogg for writing it and making it freely available online Smiley
      10th November 2008
Pretty cool little tool.
      31st October 2008
I found this awesome tool online the other day.
      9th July 2008
A fantastic chord-based tool
      8th June 2008
A great site, that'll give you 3 voicings for any chord you want. It is very, very well done
      14th March 2008
Impressive online tool to find guitar chords with a easy to use interface and many options to select from.
      1st March 2008
I use it pretty frequently - everytime I'm looking for a voicing near the last chord I was playing :-) ... Great tool ... there are a number of chord finders out there, but I use yours exclusively.
      1st February 2008
Very nice job on the Chord Explorer
      10th December 2007
This is awesome. Been racking my brain over these chords for days. I can finally sleep at night!! Thanks a bundle ... it's amazingly helpful ... if you decide to introduce a shareware version, sign me up for one.
      16th October 2007
Your guitar chord tool on the web is very cool! It is a wonderful reference and very helpful when trying to figure out how to play songs ... Keep up the good work.
      8th August 2007
I've used this site countless times to figure out chords
      21st June 2007
I find your tool very helpful.
      29th May 2007
Thats cool as f***. just that site alone is worth an entire subscription to teh internets
      5th April 2007
This little java seems to be decent
      4th April 2007
Its an excellent resource, simple and fast access to chords with theory support (intervals etc) - well done!
      2nd April 2007
I thought the concept was very good ... The creator of the tool was a friendly gentleman who took time to communicate with me and answser some questions, too.
      28th February 2007
This site helps me quite a bit.
      28th December 2006
A new tool in my toolbox: So, you’re playing a chord on the guitar, and you are making a chord chart for the keyboardist, but you don’t know what to call this chord. Here’s a solution . . . it even has an option where you can build the chord and it will tell you what that chord should be called in various root keys.
      17th November 2006
Thanks for taking the time to develop such a comprehensive chord reference.
      4th November 2006
Fabulous when I don't know what a chord is called and I want to explain a piece of music to someone else.
      4th October 2006
excellent site and guitar tool
      4th July 2006
Great site you got up ... Thanks for the great learning tool!! :)
      22nd June 2006
I have tried most of the free chord finders on the web. This is my favourite. I would recommend it for the intermediate or advanced player. It is not cluttered with finger placements. You are shown the notes and their fret positions. With a click you can see other "voicings" or ways of playing the chord. Very intelligent, I think. Gives you a better understanding of how chords are constructed and how you can use both open an closed strings for different voicings.
      19th May 2006
Coolest thing ever: Guitar Chord Explorer.
      14th April 2006
I like it ... Great tool! I've been developing my own chord construction diagrams as a learning aid over the past few years, but I think your Chord Explorer is better in many respects ... thanks for creating and sharing this tool. I'm also a software developer and I know how much work goes into a program like this.
      7th April 2006
amazing site!! it has been helping me learn modes,etc ... Your site is the best ... you are helping me learn so much ... thanks for such a great site!!!
      22nd March 2006
Chord Explorer is great ... After spending a tedious evening trying to generate some odd chords by hand I was contemplating writing a chord explorer.  But after a quick google search I found your site instead.  Awesome Job! you implemented every feature that I was interested in, keep up the good work.
      3rd March 2006
I've just come upon the guitar chord explorer, and it is quite amazing ... thanks for the brilliant software and beautiful user interface ... keep up the good work.
      20th February 2006
Very useful. I think I'll add that to my bookmarks. It sure makes things a bit easier to figure out.
      16th February 2006
I just came across GCE.  Very cool!  Thanks for making such a useful creation a freeware application!
      12th February 2006
Looks quite useful, and it's free.
      12th February 2006
A great online guitar chord tool.
      16th December 2005
Great tool--well done!  I particularly like the voicings.
      7th December 2005
I hope they give you a PhD in Comp Sci for this piece of work. It's awesome and easily the best tool I have seen.
      2nd November 2005
This site is very cool ... Smiley (That is, among the favorites ...)   [Translated from French by Google]
      20th October 2005
great stuff. helps you see how transitions work, too, and the patterns behind them.
      6th September 2005
I've tried your chord app and find it useful ... exellent app
      17th May 2005
The guitar chord explorer is a very useful tool ... I have spent hours and hours putting dots on paper to lay out notes for the fretboard. With your tool - its so easy. Especially to explore alternative tunings and alternative chord positions and possibilities.
      25th April 2005
keep up the great work!! ... great program!
      7th April 2005
a wonderful tool
      30th March 2005
Excellent work, keep it up.
      7th March 2005
Guitar Chord Explorer is a great program!
      1st January 2005
excellent
      1st November 2004
I really like your program.
      23rd August 2004
Your program is Awesome!  I am a beginner/intermediate player and have been looking for something like this for a while.
      8th July 2004
What a great little tool!
      5th July 2004
It's an excellent and innovative idea ... The web site is easy to use
      21st March 2004
i went looking on the net for a graphic display of chord structure and i found your website.. of all the ones i looked at i think yours is the best.
      10th March 2004
I am very impressed with the design of GCE and am eager to use it.  It is the best design if its kine I've seen on the web in terms of its power and ease of use.
      9th February 2004
I just wanted to let you know that your program is the best one of it's kind that I have ever seen.  It is extremely useful.
      10th January 2004
this is an incredibly useful program!
      17th December 2003
I took a look at your chord application and I'm very impressed indeed.  I think it should come in very handy...
      27th November 2003


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MikeLwork
    28 Dec 2008
    United States
This is outstanding. Where was it forty years ago when I needed it. Thanks a ton
Dave
    8 Jan 2009
    United States
I absolutely love this thing. Thanks Mike!!!

-Dave
Dallas, TX
joe the lion
    20 Jan 2009
    Belgium
chord explorer is the best ! it's got all you want. thanx dude!
Ash
    24 Mar 2009
    United Kingdom
this thing is awsome.just startiong out with lapslide and it has helped so much.mike you are an absolute legend.
thankyou.
(Anonymous)
    23 May 2009
    United States
excellent :)
Tom
    8 Jul 2009
    Germany
The chord explorer is a great and useful help.
Did you ever think of extending it to 8 strings?
There are lots of lap steelers who surely would appreciate that testing all those different 8string tunings.
chas
    13 Jul 2009
    United States
Needs to label chord components rather than note names; e.g. root, m3, 5th, 7th, -9, etc.
Mr Sunday
    22 Oct 2009
    Switzerland
Very nice tool, good work!
TIm
    27 Nov 2009
    Germany
hey, It's an amazing program.....but....where can i download it????
Michael Hogg
    29 Nov 2009
Hi Tim! Go to the instructions page, then click on "Miscellanous" in the table of contents, then click on "Offline version".
Julien
    4 Feb 2010
    Belgium
Very Cool :)

Something I was searching for a long time

And thanks for your GOL database, very helpful too understand it.
Truong
    2 Apr 2010
    Australia
This is very convenient and helpful


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