For those of you that enjoy music and have an interest in learning more about it or even trying your hand at playing music or perhaps even writing your own, there is a ton of information throughout the Internet. 
I've provided some links to help you isolate and locate information about musical chords, scales, chord progressions plus software you can download on your PC or handheld.
Online Virtual Piano (lookup up and analyze chords, scales, some with audio)
Piano Room: Chords and Scales (Site: LookNoHands also has Guitar Room in it's ChordHouse)
8Notes.com: Piano Chord Chart
Virtuall Piano Chords (plus Interactive Virtual Piano Keyboard, Audible Harmonized Piano Scales)
Piano Chords(and online game)
teoria (music theory on web - tutorials, exercises, articles)
To help understand harmony, how songs are crafted or play along with other performers, it is essential that you have basic knowledge of music theory and some understanding of chords and chord progressions...
Chord and Chord Progressions:http://www.hotfrets.com/songanator.asp(as HotFrets.com: guitar oriented)
http://www.petethomas.co.uk/jazz-chord-progressions.html (Jazz progressions)
http://www.guitarnoise.com/article.php?id=487http://www.essentialchords.com/ (some samples)
http://cnx.org/content/m11643/latest/ (beginning harmonic analysis)
http://www.alcorn.edu/musictheory/Version2/theory1/Progres.htmJazz Chord Progressions (at A Passion for Jazz - Jazz Education)
Harmony.org
(Chord Progressions in Tonal Music)
Cipher - Music Theory Chord Progressions and Modal ApplicationsWikipedia: Chord Progressions (category)
Here is some software in some way related to our topic. Some are freeware, most have a cost...
Music Software
For Windows PC:All That Chords! - will help you to play a chord on your keyboard
(not the QWERTY one, the black and white one!) Ask it to show you how to play a Cm, or a Db7+, or even a E13b9#11, it will display the keyboard with the required keys pressed! The reverse function is possible: ask it the name of the chord of the notes you are playing, it will tell you. Allows MIDI output of chords.
Transcribe! - is an assistant for people who sometimes want to work out a piece of music from a recording, in order to write it out or play it themselves. To help you to determine notes/chords, etc.
Chord Pickout - is a program that helps to recognize and register the chords of a song. It scans the song file and reveals the list of chords present. (They also provide a service in which they will do if for you.)
Band-In-A-Box - is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short period of time with Band-in-a-Box as your "on demand" backup band. Band-in-a-Box is so easy to use: just type in the chords to any song (like C or Fm7b5), pick a musical style from the hundreds available, and click the [Play] button. Band-in-a-Box then automatically generates a full backing arrangement of piano, bass, drums, guitar, and strings.
Cakewalk - provides music creation, development and production software for the home enthusiast and for top professionals. Cakewalk one of the world's leading developers of products for music creation and recording. These products include digital audio workstations and sequencers, fully-integrated music software and hardware solutions, and virtual instruments. If you want to ratchet your music playing and/or writing up to the next level, this is certainly software you need to evaluate.
For Palm Handhelds:
ChordLab - a tool for song-writers and musicians in general assists with chord spelling tasks. Features a built-in Circle of Fifths and chord finder for when you know the pitches, but not the chord. (Also check out other music resources by RoGame.)
McChords- displays the notes of sixty chords and forty-eight scales. It also has a four octave (six if your device has a collapsible graffiti area) playable piano with pitch pipe capability. The key and chord are selectable via onscreen buttons. There is an option to play the notes of a chord or scale as well as a pitch pipe.
BeatMatch- for determining how many beats per minute (BPM) is the music your are hearing or in your head. Also works as a metronome. (free)
Metronome - free metronome with many features, including a 16 beat cycle, presets and user patterns. You can build up simple or complex rhythmic patterns with a choice of three tones for each beat and an option to select different notes, to match the key of the piece that you are playing. Tempo is selectable from twenty up to three hundred beats per minute, with a tap tempo feature. A selectable autostart feature will start the metronome after a configurable number of steps. Allows you to see and/or hear beat patterns.
BanjoChords- shows basic chords for the Banjo: Major, Minor, 7th, and Minor 7th chords in A thru G keys (open 'G' tuning). (free)
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Suppose you were, like me, untrained musically, but you wanted to maximize the chord progression choices at your disposal.
First, you'd take the circle of progressions and the
I ii iii IV V vi vii Thing.Then you would list I and vi and iii as interchangeable and also ii and iv?
C d e F G a
Then you'd add extensions like 7 or maj 7 as substitutes.
Then you'd add the secondary dominants V/II V/III V/Iv V/V V/ Vi
And the same goes for the parallel minor.
c d E F G A Bdim
Then Relative minor
a b C d E F G
And then there are a few borrowed chords like IIb super-tonic which can go only I IIb to V or V .
And there's iiib,VIb and Viib which are borrowed chords.
And that's about it unless you modulate to another key?
I know these Steadman rules and substitutions are guidelines and can be broken. But have I come pretty close or are there other sets of chords I could add? And is what I have close to right?