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.
How to Play Chords By Ear: A Roadmap
A great framework for learning to play chords by ear broken down into 5 phases from learning the fundamentals to playing real songs just using your ear.
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.
How can you recognise chord inversions by ear?
Once you have spent some time on chords ear training you should be able recognise major, minor, augmented and diminished triads by ear. A useful next step is to work on recognising the different inversions of each chord. Recap: What is an inversion? An inversion of a...
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...What ear training helps you recognise broken chords and arpeggios?
Many guitar players will simply strum through chords without giving much thought to the individual notes of the chords, but if you want to play advanced, sophisticated, pleasing arrangements of songs on solo guitar, spice up your rhythm playing, or work on...
Chord Ear Training How-To: Chord Types
In “Chord Ear Training: What is it and What can it do for you?” we discussed the reasons musicians train their ears for chords, looked at the benefits of chord ear training, and gave an overview of the two main areas you can focus on. Now let’s look...
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...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)...
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.
How to Hear Chord Inversions
As part of chord ear training you will want to practice with all inversions of chords. Here are some techniques to help you recognise triad inversions.
Broken Chords and Arpeggios
There are a number of ways for a guitarist to play a chord that can have a significant impact on the song. Train your ears and fingers for each of these.
