Cantonese has six tones, and a melody that moves against them turns your words into different words. Type lyrics below to see the shape their tones already demand, then drag any note and find out the moment the melody starts fighting the language.
Drag a note to move it, or focus one and use â â. Hover a red or amber connector to see what the corpus says. Your draft saves itself in this browser, and Copy link puts the whole thing in a URL. There is no server and no account: nothing you write is ever uploaded.
If you wrote the tune first, paste it here instead of dragging notes into
place. One melody line per lyric line, in numbered notation
(1 2 3 5, where ' lifts an octave, .
drops one, # and b bend a semitone and
0 is a rest) or in note names (F4 G4 A4). A MIDI
export works too, and is split across the lines in order. Nothing is
uploaded: the file is read in this browser.
Every clash above, with words that would sit on those exact notes instead, taken from what Cantopop lyricists actually wrote. Phrases come first because the corpus wrote them as a unit; single characters fit the notes but the sense is yours to judge. Click one to put it in the lyrics.
Not a dictionary. This is every word and phrase the corpus's lyricists actually wrote, so everything here is already in register and already singable. Click a note above to fill the slot, and the list narrows to words whose tones the melody will actually accept.