Create chord progressions
That work. In seconds. It’s easy with smart chord palettes and one-click entry.
Create melodies
That complement your chords.
Hookpad has completely changed my ‘songwriting life’Dan Gruemmer |
A musical sketchpad with built-in music theory that helps you create beats, songs, and musical snippets.
That work. In seconds. It’s easy with smart chord palettes and one-click entry.
That complement your chords.
With dozens of professionally tuned bands, instruments, and rhythms.
Effortlessly with intuitive tools and precise control.
With a single click.
`To every major DAW.
Works instantly in desktop and mobile browsers.
Voicing engine. Rhythm engine. Music theory. Chord suggestions.
Aria uses the surrounding music in your composition to generate suggestions that make sense within the context of your song and your style.
Aria can write chords, melody, or both at the same time. It can write chords for your melody, and write melody for your chords.
Don't know where to start? Aria can generate ideas from a blank page to spark your creativity.
With each note and chord, Aria's suggestions become more aligned with your unique style.
Aria's musical outputs are never canned. Direct every detail for complete creative control.
Take your ideas from start to finish, all in one place. Hookpad has the tools you need for every step.
Picking the right chords for a song can be tough. There are so many chords to choose from, yet only a select few sound good in any given scenario. Hookpad’s chord palettes show you the chords that work well together in a particular key.
Once you've chosen some chords, Hookpad can help you pick notes for your melody by highlighting the notes in your chords. Hookpad will show you the notes that create either a stable or a more dissonant sound. Use the stable notes as a guide when you are picking notes for the melody. The Hooktheory Book Series covers this topic in great detail.
There’s an art to playing a chord progression on piano or guitar. With Hookpad, it happens automatically. When you swap an instrument, rhythm, or style, Hookpad magically creates a professional arrangement, so you don’t have to.
It turns out that out of the hundreds of thousands of chords, the vast majority of music is written with just a handful of them. Hookpad’s AI gives you easy access to the most used chords, ordered and scored by popularity in real music.
Hookpad’s AI provides chord suggestions that update in real-time based on the chords at your cursor. Each suggestion has a score from 1 to 100 to give you a sense of how often it’s used in this context in real music.
Hookpad’s chord suggestions always include the “obvious” answers as the first few options. But at the tail end, you can find some unique suggestions that can take you into a totally new sonic space.
Hookpad includes a searchable library of chords and melody from over 40,000 hit songs written out in Hookpad. In seconds, copy and paste any clip from the library into your project, transposed to the correct key and tempo.
With MIDI drag-and-drop, working between Hookpad and your DAW just makes sense. You can save time and avoid the frustration of editing MIDI notes by letting Hookpad do that work for you. With intelligent harmony and chord fills and the ability to independently shift the tonal center of each track, incorporating Hookpad into your workflow will save you time and make you more efficient.
Aria is an optional add-on to Hookpad that gives you suggestions for chords and melodies in the style of your song or track. Based on cutting edge GPT architecture and trained on hundreds of thousands of pieces of music, Aria is your secret weapon for creating new and exciting music.
Fun to read, easy to understand, full of practical knowledge.
