It really wasn't my intent to generate a discussion on the merits of learning a bit of music theory. If you don't want to learn it, who am I to tell you otherwise. But, I did the old "if it's a problem, fix it yourself" advise and wrote a little (under 100 lines) python program to do what I wanted. It uses an existing table of chord values from MMA and prints out some results. Took less than an hour to write :) Here are some examples (and I really hope I'm not showing my dumbness with bad results!!): [11:12 AM ~/src/bv/mma/util] bob$ ./chordname.py c eb g B#m Cm [11:12 AM ~/src/bv/mma/util] bob$ ./chordname.py c eb g a Am7-5 Am7b5 B#m6 Cm6 [11:12 AM ~/src/bv/mma/util] bob$ ./chordname.py c eb g a d B#m6(add9) B#m69 Cm6(add9) Cm69 D7susb9 [11:12 AM ~/src/bv/mma/util] bob$ ./chordname.py c e g B#M CM Em#5 Em+ Em+5 Fbm#5 Fbm+ Fbm+5 [11:13 AM ~/src/bv/mma/util] bob$ ./chordname.py c e# g B#sus B#sus4 Csus Csus4 E#omit3(add9) E#omit3add9 E#sus2 Fomit3(add9) Fomit3add9 Fsus2 Some of the names are repetitive, but that's due to MMA accepting different names as aliases. If anyone wants the code, send me a private mail and I'll send it out. You will need to have MMA installed (see my website). It'll be in the util section of MMA in future releases. Best, -- **** Listen to my CD at http://www.mellowood.ca/music/cedars **** Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA ** EMAIL: bob(a)mellowood.ca WWW: http://www.mellowood.ca