Listen to a chord and identify its type
Chord ear training builds your ability to hear a group of simultaneous notes and recognize its quality—major, minor, diminished, augmented, suspended, or seventh. The goal is to perceive the overall color of the harmony instead of naming every note inside it. Practice is free in your browser and requires no signup.
Ten levels begin with major and minor, add diminished, augmented, and suspended triads, then introduce seventh-chord qualities. Advanced levels keep the same qualities while changing inversions and spreading notes across octaves.
After a wrong answer, tap any option to hear that chord in root position. Side-by-side comparison makes similar qualities easier to separate, and missed chord types receive extra weight in future questions.
Start with major and minor until the contrast feels immediate. Then add one family at a time and focus on broad qualities such as bright, dark, tense, open, or unresolved before trying to isolate individual intervals.
Hearing chord quality supports playing by ear, improvising over changes, and transcribing harmony. Pair chord work with note reading so harmonic sound and written notation reinforce each other.
Listen to a chord and identify its type