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.
Chord practice on ukulele
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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What you're practicing
A chord is several notes at once — a root and the intervals above it — and the way its notes sit on an instrument is a voicing. The major and minor triads are about 80% of the chords in popular music, and they differ by one semitone: the third.
Build Shapes is the app's chord flashcard. A chord sounds, its root is shown, and the work is hearing the quality — major or minor — and placing the rest: the basic shapes first, then the useful spread ones, then the inversions. Any root, or the triads of a key by degree, which connects harmony to melody and lets you find a progression's chords anywhere. Then the loop: a progression plays, each chord's shape lit as it sounds — nothing to answer, play over it.
On the ukulele: four strings, high-G tuning, the whole neck. The 5 exercises above are the loop with the chords decided — the panel still offers every setting, and a link carries yours.