Omnichord Songs

Filter by difficulty or style, then open a song to see its chords, the key it is played in and tips for strumming it.

Good omnichord songs have a few things in common: a handful of chords that repeat, room for each chord to ring for a bar or two, and a melody you can hum while you strum. That is why this list leans on ballads, folk standards and singalongs. Every chart uses between three and nine buttons, and the easiest omnichord songs here need no more than four.

Each song opens with a suggested rhythm pattern and tempo. If you like the groove of one song, the others with the same pattern are a natural next step.

The panel has nine roots (E♭, B♭, F, C, G, D, A, E and B), each with a major, minor and seventh chord. A♭, D♭ and G♭ have no button. Before a song is added, its chords are checked against the grid, and if anything is missing the whole song is moved to the nearest key where every chord fits. Moving every chord by the same amount keeps the song sounding like itself, just a little higher or lower.

Two songs that change key

• Stand By Me is usually heard in A, but its vi chord in that key, F♯m, has no button. One semitone up, in B♭, every chord fits: B♭, Gm, E♭ and F.
• Can't Help Falling in Love is charted in D, where its iii chord (F♯m) and one seventh chord in the bridge (C♯7) have no button. Moving it two semitones down to C turns them into Em and B7, both on the panel.

The other songs in the list play in their usual key. Whenever a song has been moved, its page and the practice bar show the key it is played in next to the original key. Chord types the panel does not have, such as major sevenths or sus chords, would be shown as simplified too.

See the full chart of 27 chord buttons →

Choose a song in the practice bar under the instrument, or use the button on a song's page to open the instrument with that song already selected. Then pick a mode and press Practice.

Follow

The song waits for you. The chord to press lights up, with the next one shown beside it, and the song only moves on when you press the right button. Use it to learn the changes without any time pressure.

Play-along

The song's own rhythm and tempo are loaded, you get a short count-in, and the chords move with the beat. Every chord change is scored, and your total appears at the end. Turn Memory on so each chord keeps ringing while your other hand strums.

Easy songs use a handful of chords, mostly the home chord and its close neighbours, and usually change chord once per bar. Most of them sit in C or G, where the chords are grouped tightly on the panel.

Medium songs add more chords and some seventh chords from the bottom row, or change chords more often. Hallelujah, for example, brings in a seventh chord that leads into its relative minor, and the bridge of Can't Help Falling in Love moves through several seventh chords. Learn them in Follow mode first.

Song pages show chords, sections and playing tips, but never the words. Lyrics are protected by copyright, and printing them would need permission we do not have. Chord progressions on their own are the part you need to play along, and if you want to sing, you probably know the words already or can find them through a licensed lyrics service.