Looking for a tool: I give it the notes, it tells me chord

[rockstar_not]

Paraphrasing jancivil:

Use your brain AND use helper tools. Make sure your brain understands what the helper tools tell you.

(BTW, most $100-200 keyboards from Casio will tell you with startlingly clear accuracy what chords you play unless you go all Schoenberg on the thing.)

My kids have been learning what is collectively known as 'Chicago Math'.

Multiple ways to multiply and divide numbers. The 'right' way that we learned, lattice method, calculators, spreadsheets, and ye good olde rote memory. Chicago math requires all of them to be learned, and each person's brain will have an affinity towards one method over the others because each person's brain is wired differently. There's actually no 'right' way because each of these yields the correct answers.

There's visual, auditory, and other learning affinities. Find some way to tie your style to learning chords and use a helper tool and take a music theory class where this is taught. Somewhere in the mix, you'll find your brain will wire it together.

For me, I see chords on a traditional black/white key keyboard, because that's when it clicked for me - even though I play far more guitar and bass now than I do keys.

Find out what works for you, but work in some learning on theory into whatever you choose.

[Cymatic Kicks]

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Ok, sorry. Your second post here was a link to your website.

here is a clickable link to your music theory page: http://www.cymatickicks.com/search/label/Music%20Theory (http://www.cymatickicks.com/search/label/Music%20Theory)

Thanks!

I didn't even realize I haven't posted here much - HUGE lurker though - usually looking for quick info while producing.