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A quick visual guide to the main pages. Click any “Open page” button to jump straight in.
Trad Tune Explorer has three main areas: Search (find tunes), Tune pages (play, transpose, print), and Visual tools (explore the dataset).
Tip: most interactive pages support drag to pan and scroll/pinch to zoom.

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Use the main Search page to browse tunes A–Z, filter by metadata, and open tune pages.

Trad Songs Search screenshot

Trad Songs Search

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Filter by key, meter, rhythm, origin, source, and complexity, then click a tune to open its tune page.

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Tune Page

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Tune pages support transposition, playback, print score, setlist building, and quick jumping into related visual tools.

Visual tools

Use visual exploration pages to discover patterns, clusters, and relationships in the tune collection.

Tune Metadata Galaxy screenshot

Tune Metadata Galaxy

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A network-style view of metadata such as key, rhythm, meter, origin, and complexity. Click nodes to filter the tune list.

Song Galaxy screenshot

Song Galaxy (UMAP)

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Tunes positioned by harmonic similarity. Zoom in to see clusters and compare tunes with similar chord vocabularies.

Chord co-occurrence network screenshot

Chord Co-Occurrence Network

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See which chords commonly appear together across the library. Use search and filtering to declutter the view.

Statistics

High-level distributions and exploratory charts for understanding patterns across the collection.

Motif Finder screenshot

Motif Finder (n-grams)

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Reveal common harmonic motifs such as V–I and I–IV–V, and compare how different tune types build phrases.

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Song Metadata Stats

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Choose a dataset such as key, meter, rhythm, origin, or complexity. Click a bar to open the filtered tune list.

Chord Complexity screenshot

Chord Complexity

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Shows how many unique chords tunes use. Lower counts usually indicate simpler harmonic language.

Recording Transitions screenshot

Recording Transitions

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Shows the most common tune-to-tune transitions found in recordings from TheSession.org. Each bar represents how often one tune directly follows another in a recorded sequence.

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Set Transitions

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Shows the most common tune-to-tune transitions found in sets shared on TheSession.org. Useful for spotting common session pairings and set-building habits.

Search trees

Interactive drill-down trees. Click a node to continue exploring from that point or open related tunes.

Origin to Complexity tree screenshot

Origin → Complexity

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

Origin to Rhythm tree screenshot

Origin → Rhythm

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

Rhythm to Key tree screenshot

Rhythm → Key

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Start with a rhythm such as reel or jig, then explore the keys most commonly associated with it.

Rhythm to Complexity tree screenshot

Rhythm → Complexity

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Great for exploring which rhythms tend to be simpler or more harmonically involved.

Key to Meter tree screenshot

Key → Meter

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Start with a key, then drill into time signatures and meters.

Meter to Key tree screenshot

Meter → Key

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Start with a time signature such as 6/8, then see which keys are most common for that meter.

Key to Rhythm tree screenshot

Key → Rhythm

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Start from a key and see which rhythms appear most often within it.

Complexity to Key tree screenshot

Complexity → Key

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

Complexity to Meter tree screenshot

Complexity → Meter

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

Recording Follow-On Tree screenshot

Recording Follow-On Tree

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Starting from a chosen tune, this tree shows which tunes most commonly follow it in recordings. Great for exploring recorded set flow and likely next-tune options.

Set Follow-On Tree screenshot

Set Follow-On Tree

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Starting from a chosen tune, this tree shows which tunes most commonly follow it in shared sets. It is especially useful for practical set-building and discovering new follow-on choices.

Sankey charts

Tools focused on flow of data, such as chord transitions and source distribution.

Chord transition Sankey screenshot

Chord → Chord (Sankey)

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Thickness shows how often one chord moves to another. Useful for seeing common progressions by rhythm.

Source to Rhythm Sankey screenshot

Source → Rhythm (Sankey)

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Shows how different sources contribute to different tune types such as reels, jigs, and hornpipes.

Replace the screenshots with your final image files under /assets/og/. The four filenames used here are: og-recording-transitions.jpg, og-set-transitions.jpg, og-recording-followon-tree.jpg, og-set-followon-tree.jpg.