Chordplay is a tool written for musicians who are playing a solo instrument like saxophone or lead guitar and who want to improve their improvisation skills Chordplay allows one to enter the basic harmonies of a piece of music in an intuitive text format, as it it used in many books about jazz harmony. While Chordplay can play back those harmonies on your midi-compatible soundcard in various, user-defined styles, you can try to play the melody line or improvise with your solo instrument Furthermore, Chordplay can help you to learn more about jazz harmony, especially when used with one of the numerous books which are available on this topic. You can quickly type in the examples given in those books, hear them and play around with your own modifications You may also try to use Chordplay as a composing tool and sketch the chord progression of your own music titles Chordplay IS NOT 'yet another midi sequencer'. It was designed clearly as a learning tool for musicians. So Chordplay will not produce nice, interesting and sophisticated pieces of music. But Chordplay will help YOU to produce nice, interesting and sophisticated pieces of music. Anyway, real, hand made music is still much more fun than music produced by a computer, isn't it Chordplay exports simple ASCII-files, which can easily be distributed on the internet. So it's easy for you to share your favorite jazz progressions with thousands of other musicians on the net, for instance on USENET's famous newsgroup 'alt.guitar.tab
