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Filter by key/meter/rhythm/origin/complexity, then click a tune to open its tune page. Green indicates tune imported from thesession.org, blue from Paul Hardy (pghardy.net/tunebooks) and Orange from another other.

Tune pages support transposition, print score, add tune to setlist, open a setlist of simialr tunes, play the audio and follow along. Also you can open the tune in

Drag/zoom around a “map” of tools. Search within the hub, then click a bubble to open the page.

A network view of metadata (key/rhythm/meter/origin/complexity). Click nodes to filter the tune list.

Tunes positioned by harmonic similarity. Zoom in to see clusters; filter by key/rhythm/meter/origin/complexity when exploring detail.

See which chords commonly appear together. Use sliders/search to declutter and focus.

Choose a dataset (key/meter/rhythm/origin/complexity). Click a bar to open the filtered tune list.

Shows how many unique chords tunes use. Lower counts usually mean “easier” songs.

Start from geographic origin, then drill into difficulty bands to find tunes for your level.

See the rhythms most associated with each origin (and click through to the tunes).

Start with a rhythm (reel/jig/etc.), then explore which keys are most common.

Great for answering: “Which rhythms tend to be easy vs complex?”

Start with a key, then drill into time signatures.

Start with a time signature (e.g., 6/8), then see common keys for that meter.

Start from a key and see which rhythms show up most often.

Start from difficulty band and explore the keys commonly found at that level.

Start from a difficulty band and explore which meters are common there.

Thickness = how often one chord moves to another. Great for seeing common progressions by rhythm.

Shows how different sources contribute to different tune types (reels/jigs/etc.).