Build Shapes
Hear a chord and build it on your instrument. The root is given, so the work is hearing the quality — major or minor, and later the tetrad types — and placing the rest: basic shapes first, then the useful ones, then the inversions.
Triad shapes on piano
A chord sounds and its root lights up on the piano; find the shape, then see it. Space reveals, Space deals the next. The browser only plays — the app listens.
Triad Harmony
Hear, build, and identify major and minor triads harmonically, in various shapes. Major and minor triads are about 80% of the chords in popular music — the home base of harmony. Learn to tell major and minor apart by sound and to play them in the many ways.
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Triad Harmony
Hear, build, and identify major and minor triads harmonically, in various shapes. Major and minor triads are about 80% of the chords in popular music — the home base of harmony. Learn to tell major and minor apart by sound and to play them in the many ways.
Build Shapes. Hear a chord and build it on your instrument, root given How it works →
On the piano: four octaves, C2 to C6.