Chords & Transposition

Chords on stage.
Any key you need.

Add ChordPro chords to your songs and they appear above the lyrics on stage and confidence displays — never on the audience screen. Transpose the chords to any display key, and pitch-shift the song's audio track to match, in one click.

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Chords on stage require the latest Apple TV & iOS Remote apps
Display key: G
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Stage display
01

Write chords inline

Add ChordPro chords in square brackets right before the syllable they fall on — [G]Amazing [C]grace. LightLoop detects them automatically and reveals the chord controls.

02

Turn on stage chords

Flip on Show chords on stage view in the Style panel and pick a chord color. Chords show only on stage and confidence displays — your audience screen stays lyrics-only.

03

Set the keys

LightLoop auto-detects the song's Original key from the chords. Choose a Display key and the chords transpose on the fly — correct any reading with a tap.

04

Transpose the audio

If a track is attached, hit Transpose to pitch-shift it to a new key while keeping the original tempo — the original file is always kept for one-click revert.

ChordPro chords, stage-only

Standard ChordPro [chords] render above the syllable they precede on stage and confidence displays. Your audience output stays clean, lyrics-only — chords never leak to the main screen.

Smart key detection

LightLoop reads the chords and works out the song's key with music-theory scoring — not just a guess at the first chord. Em C G DG; Bm D A G…D. Override it any time.

Transpose chords to any key

Set a Display key and every chord — roots, slash basses, and chord-chart measures — shifts to match, with sensible sharp/flat spelling for the target key.

Pitch-shift the audio

Transpose the attached track to a new key while preserving tempo. The shifted file plays everywhere the song plays; the original is always kept for instant revert.

Sync chords to audio — or not

Turn on Sync to Audio and the chord display key follows the audio transposition automatically. Leave it off and chords stay independent — for a player capoing or reading in a different key.

Chord charts & the "Next" preview

Whole-measure chord charts like [|Ab / / / |] render on their own line, and the upcoming slide's chords show in the stage "Next" preview — all transposed to your display key.

One key change. Chords and track together.

Worship leaders move keys to fit a vocalist or a new arrangement — and everything else has to follow. LightLoop keeps the chords your band reads and the click track your players hear locked to the same key.

Open a song's Audio card and click Transpose. Pick the from and to keys; LightLoop figures out the semitones, pitch-shifts the track without changing its tempo, and attaches the result. The original audio is never overwritten — revert any time.

With Sync to Audio enabled, the chord Display key rides along automatically, so the chart your team reads on stage always matches what's playing.

From key G
To key A
Shift: +2 semitones · tempo preserved
Sync stage chords to audio

Key detection that actually understands chords

Instead of guessing from the first chord, LightLoop scores every major and minor key by how well the song's chords fit it — and uses the dominant (V) chord to tell a key apart from its relative minor. A song that opens on Bm but lives in D major is read as D, not B minor, because the A-major chord points home.

Em C G D → G Bm D A G Em → D Am Dm E Am → A minor C F G Am → C

Latest apps required for stage chords. Chords and keys are set in the LightLoop web app. To see chords above lyrics on the TV Wall Stage Display and the iOS Remote's Stage Mode, update the Apple TV and LightLoop Remote apps to their latest versions. Audio transposition works regardless of app version.

Give your team the chart.
Keep the screen clean.

Chords on stage, lyrics for the room, and any key you need — free with every LightLoop account.

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