kennethreitz/pytheory

kennethreitz/pytheory

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Part of composing-with-pytheory

Build, voice, and analyze individual chords with PyTheory. Use when the user asks about a single chord — its notes/intervals, inversions or drop-2/drop-3/ open voicings, the tritone substitution, what extensions it can take, how tense or dissonant it is, its Forte number / pitch-class set, figured bass, or the…

kennethreitz/pytheory

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Part of composing-with-pytheory

Compose music with PyTheory — chord progressions, melodies, basslines, drum grooves, and full multi-part arrangements written in pure Python and rendered to audio or MIDI. Use whenever the user wants to write, sketch, generate, or arrange music — "write me a bossa nova in G minor", "make a four-chord pop loop", "lay…

kennethreitz/pytheory

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Part of composing-with-pytheory

Analyze and generate keys and chord progressions with PyTheory. Use when the user asks what key some notes are in, the diatonic chords of a key, a Roman- numeral analysis of a progression, what chord comes next, secondary dominants, borrowed chords, chords grouped by function (tonic/subdominant/dominant), the…

kennethreitz/pytheory

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Part of composing-with-pytheory

Help guitarists and string players with PyTheory — chord fingerings and shapes, ASCII tablature, chord identification, scale diagrams, SVG/PNG diagram images, alternate tunings and capo, Nashville number charts, and a real-time strobe tuner. Use whenever the user asks for a chord shape or fingering ("how do I play…

kennethreitz/pytheory

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Part of composing-with-pytheory

Explore scales, modes, tones, and tuning systems with PyTheory. Use when the user asks about a scale or mode (notes of D dorian, harmonize a scale), which scale to solo with over some notes, intervals between notes, the overtone series, the circle of fifths, Hindustani ragas (aroha/avaroha, pakad, time of day, shruti…

kennethreitz/pytheory

Skill Claude CodeCodex

Part of composing-with-pytheory

Transcribe audio and convert between music formats with PyTheory. Use when the user wants to turn a recording (WAV/hum/melody) into notes or MIDI, identify the chord in an audio clip, import a MIDI file, or export a score/melody to MIDI, sheet music (MusicXML, LilyPond, ABC), or guitar tab.