Chord Quality Ear Training
Four colours cover most of what you will ever hear: major, minor, diminished, augmented. Add the sevenths and you cover nearly all of the rest. You choose exactly which types are in the pool, so you can drill maj7 against dominant seventh on its own instead of wading through the whole list.
- you set the pool
- colour, not arithmetic
- 2 minutes
at which level
- Beginner to advanced
- Any instrument
A chord sounds, and you name the type. Pick which types come past, then start.
What it asks
You hear a chord and name its type. Not its root, not its inversion, just what kind of chord it is, which is the skill that transfers to listening to actual music.
The question pool
Start with major and minor only. Two answers, and you will be at ninety percent within a week. Then add dominant seventh and major seventh, which is the pair most people confuse for years, and only then the diminished and augmented chords.
How you answer
Buttons with the chord symbols. One chord per screen, always from the same root, so the only thing changing is the quality.
When the round ends
Ten questions, twenty, or no limit at all. The streak counter is there to make you want one more, not to grade you.
When you get it wrong
The correct type lights up with its intervals in semitones. Play it again and listen specifically to the third, which is the note deciding almost everything.
Keep going
Everything in ear training
- Interval Ear Training
- Chord Quality Ear Training
- Scale Ear Training
- Find the Tonic