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Pianolab

Pick a root, pick a chord, hear it on a real grand piano. It all runs in your browser, so there is nothing to install and no account to make.

27 chord types
From a plain major triad to a thirteenth.
All twelve roots
The black keys included, under both their names.
Every chord, every rootCC E G
C4C5C6
Major Chord
Inversion

Each step puts the next note in the bass. 3 notes means 3 positions.

Three notes
Four notes
Sixths and added notes
Extensions
Stacked in fourths and fifths

Want to know more about one chord in particular?

Every one of them has its own page: how it is built, where it wants to go and when to reach for it, with this same keyboard on it.

Open chords
The four triad types
Common seventh chords
Suspended and power chords
Sixth chords
How chords are organized and played
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