Regardless of whether you're a beginner or a more experienced musician there are times when you can't quite figure out what chord is being used in a piece of recorded music. Reference was made at the ABC Users Group about a shareware program called Transcribe which analyses the frequencies and relative volumes of a one second audio snapshot to give you the possible notes in the chord. While not claiming to be perfect it does appear to take into account factors such as drum noise in order for the musician's brain to make the final judgement. It's available at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/index.html

Regards, John