And Three Makes Triad: Hearing Chords With Solfege
Did you know that solfa can be used to recognise different types of chord? Here is how to practice this useful skill, with step by step exercises you can do.
Hearing Chord Progressions, Part 1: the Dominant and the Subdominant
Want to walk into any musical situation with the chord progression to any song? Learn to hear the movement of the chord roots and you’re well on your way.
Learn to recognise chords: FREE MP3 pack!
This free pack of ear training MP3s will help you learn to recognise different types of chord by ear. Learn more and download it to start training today.
Chord Ear Training: What is it and What can it do for you?
Chords are a fundamental part of music.Musicians consider melody, harmony and rhythm to be the three core components of any piece of music. Chords are how we tend to think about harmony. Why are chords important to musicians? Take all the notes playing at any given...
Practice with Triad Chord Ear Training Exercises
If you’re working on chord ear training, an effective approach to learning to recognise chord types (e.g. major, minor, diminished, augmented) is to practice identifying them by ear from audio examples. We’ve just added a full set of triad chord examples...
Take Theory Into Your Own Hands: A Harmonic Journey
Do you find music theory is detached from instrument practice? Join our journey to link up the theory and practice of playing chords on your instrument.
Inversions of Diminished and Augmented Triads
Diminished and Augmented chords each have distinctive sounds and you can use the intervals within them to help you reliably recognise their inversions by ear.
Inversions of Major and Minor Triads
We’ve previously covered how to recognize the different qualities of triad – major, minor, augmented and diminished. We can also learn to hear their inversions.
Working With Seventh Chords
Once you’re comfortable with intervals and triads, we can start to work on seventh chords (popular in jazz, blues and pop music) with seventh chord ear training
Learning to Recognize Triads – Part 2
Triad chords are the basis of all chords. Once you master major and minor triad chords, you should learn how to recognise augmented and diminished triads.
Learning to Recognize Triads – Part 1
Triad chords are the basis of all chords, so they are a great way to start chord ear training. Learn how and get started recognising major and minor triads.
What is a chord?
A chord is three or more notes played at once. Different combinations of notes will create different chord sounds. Some work well together – some not so much! https://www.musical-u.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/FAQ-Chord-1.mp3Listen to a chord (E major triad)...
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