What's New
We began tracking changes to MajorMinorPerfect in July of 2023.
Here are all of the features we've added, changed, or improved since then.
November 29th, 2024
Chord Chart Collections
We've added collections of chort charts that can be printed for easy
practicing. There are collections available for triads and extended chords
for each scale. As with everything else, these will honor your selected
tuning and select the appropriate charts and fingerings to match.
Search for a scale name or try one of the links below to check this out!
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October 12th, 2024
Alternate tunings!
For now we have a few well-known tunings supported, but we plan to add support
for arbitrary tunings soon. Check the top-right of your screen to see what the tuning
is currently set to, or to change the tuning. All searches and pages that care about
tuning will automatically adjust to apply to the tuning you've selected.
September 30th, 2024
New look on the chord chart detail pages.
We've made some changes to the styling and layout on a few pages, specifically
on the guitar chord chart detail pages. These changes should make it easier to
see what's important and find related resources.
September 6th, 2024
Added recommended fingering details to guitar chord charts.
As long as we're able to find a fingering, we now show where to
place each finger on chord charts. If we find more than one way to
play a particular chord chart, we also list these other - usually
more difficult - variations on the chart detail page.
August 30th, 2024
New difficulty metric for chord charts.
This is based on the new algorithm described in the previous update,
and is used in many places throught the site. The most noticable is in
the ranking of chord charts - difficulty, along with number of strings played
and position on the neck - are used used to select the first
chart to show in search results.
This update should make for a more well
rounded selection sorting of results and produce less edge cases of hard-to-play
charts showing high in the list.
August 23rd, 2024
Filtering of chord charts that are unplayable from search results.
This is accomplished with a new algorithm we have to determine
possible ways to play each chord chart (where to place each
finger). Our first use of this algorithm is this filtering, but
future uses of this will be to show alternatives of where fingers
should be placed on the chord charts, as well as updating our chart
difficulty metric to be more accurate.
July 9th, 2024
- Reworked chord chart progression support. Search results now show
chart diagrams (like the standard chart results), can be filtered to
help you find exactly what you are looking for, and generate faster
than before.
June 18th, 2024
- Added support for "unknown chord" page (showing the member scales and
similar chords for chord types that aren't in the database.)
June 7th, 2024
- Added the separate 'What's New' page showing all changes.
June 5th, 2024
- Added support for scale searches by list of notes.
June 4th, 2024
- Added support for chord and chord-chart searches based on descriptive
chord names such as 'A Minor 7th' and 'G dominant 9th'.
May 10th, 2024
- Added support for 'unknown chord' chordchart search (searching for
charts based on chart signature or list of notes - even if the chord is
not known to the website)
- Added powerchords to the list of known chords.
May 3rd, 2024
- Added seven more chord types (half-diminished 7th, dominant 6th,
major 7th sharp 9th, major 7th flat 9th sharp 11th, dominant 7th sharp
9th sharp 13th, altered dominant 7th, and augmented 7th).
February 1st, 2024
- Added search-support for lesser-used note names B#, Cb, E#, and Fb.
January 29th, 2024
- Small improvements to the chord-chart detail view.
January 27th, 2024
- Added chord-names to chord-chart summary and detail views.
- Added support for 2nd and minor 2nd chords.
January 18th, 2024
- Added diagram view of chord charts! Check it out by searching for a chord
chart and selecting 'Details' link that shows in the result card.
- Added a detail view for chord charts. There isn't too much extra to see here
right now, but this will give us a place to drop additional information that
won't fit on the list or summary views.
- Bugfixes.
December 17th, 2023
- Added detail view for scale search results.
November 13th, 2023
- Added detail view for chord search results. This allows us to give
greater detail about a given chord in a format that is easier to read
and explore. To see this in action, search for a chord and select
'Details' from the search results.
October 25th, 2023
- Added support for 7#9 chords.
October 8th, 2023
- Added new 'Feedback' feature as a way to communicate to us
when things are broken, wrong, or even great about the site!
- Fixed several bugs with the site's navigation
August 10th, 2023
- Improved sitewide performance and stability.
- Support more flexible input for chord-chart progressions.
July 17th, 2023
- Added this 'What's New' feature! Watch here for more details on
new features and functionality that has been added.
- Added 'examples' feature. This will show a random selection of the
types of searches you can do with this tool.