📚 Chord Ear Training 📻

Level 1 - Practice 👂🏻

Can you distinguish the major and the minor chords (root position)?

Level 1 - Challenge 🎯

Level 1

Can you distinguish the major and the minor chords (inversions)?

Level 2 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 2 - Challenge 🎯
Level 3 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 3 - Challenge 🎯

Level 2

Level 3

Level 5

Level 4

Level 6

Can you distinguish the augmented and the diminished chords?

Can you distinguish the major, minor, augmented & diminished chords (root position)?

Level 4 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 4 - Challenge 🎯
Level 5 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 5 - Challenge 🎯
Level 6 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 6 - Challenge 🎯

Chord Ear Training is the practice of identifying chords and their qualities just by listening—without relying on an instrument. This skill helps students recognize harmonic structures, improving their ability to play by ear, harmonize melodies, and understand music theory more intuitively.

Why Does It Matter? 💡

  • Stronger Harmonic Recognition – Imagine hearing a song and instantly knowing whether it’s built on a major, minor, diminished, or augmented chord. Just like recognising emotions in someone’s voice, training your ear to hear chord qualities makes harmonies more meaningful.

  • Better Musical Perception – Chords shape the mood of a piece. With chord ear training, students can identify common progressions, anticipate harmonic shifts, and even recognise modulations—making them more fluent listeners and performers.

  • Improved Sight-Singing & Transcription – Recognising chord progressions by ear makes it easier to transcribe songs, arrange music, and sight-sing with harmonic awareness. Instead of guessing, students can confidently follow chord changes in real time.

  • Enhanced Playing & Improvisation – Whether jamming in a band, playing a solo, or composing, chord ear training allows musicians to react instinctively to harmonies. It sharpens their ability to play accompaniment, harmonize melodies, and improvise with confidence.

Triads

Can you distinguish the major, minor, augmented & diminished chords (inversions)?

Can you distinguish the suspended 2nd and suspended 4th chords?

Level 3

Can you distinguish the minor 7th & minor major 7th chords (root position)?

Level 3 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 3 - Challenge 🎯

Level 1

Level 1 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 1 - Challenge 🎯
Level 2 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 2 - Challenge 🎯

Level 2

Can you distinguish the major 7th & dominant 7th chords (inversions) ?

Seventh Chords

Level 5

Level 7

Level 8

Can you distinguish the major 7th & dominant 7th chords (root position) ?

Can you distinguish the minor 7th & minor major 7th chords (inversions)?

Level 4 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 4 - Challenge 🎯

Can you distinguish the half diminished 7th & fully diminished 7th chords (root position)?

Can you distinguish the half diminished 7th & fully diminished 7th chords (inversions)?

Level 7 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 7 - Challenge 🎯
Level 8 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 8 - Challenge 🎯

Level 4

Level 6

Can you distinguish the M7th, Dom. 7th/Mm7th, m7th & mM7th chords (root position)?

Can you distinguish the M7th, Dom. 7th/Mm7th, m7th & mM7th chords (inversions)?

Level 5 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 5 - Challenge 🎯
Level 6 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 6 - Challenge 🎯

Level 9

Can you distinguish the augmented 7th & augmented major 7th chords (root position)?

Level 10

Can you distinguish the augmented 7th & augmented major 7th chords (inversions)?

Level 11

Level 12

Can you distinguish the ⍉7th, o7th, Aug 7th & Aug M7th chords (root position)?

Can you distinguish the ⍉7th, o7th, Aug 7th & Aug M7th chords (inversions)?

Level 9 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 9 - Challenge 🎯
Level 12 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 11 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 10 - Practice 👂🏻
Level 12 - Challenge 🎯
Level 11 - Challenge 🎯
Level 10 - Challenge 🎯
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🏅 Seventh Chords - The Ultimate Challenge 🏆

Level A

Level B

Can you distinguish all eight introduced seventh chords (root position)?

Can you distinguish all eight introduced seventh chords (inversions)?

Level A - Practice 👂🏻
Level B - Practice 👂🏻
Level A - Challenge 🎯
Level B - Challenge 🎯