Chord Formulas and Scale Drills

Continuing the theme of knowledge drills; chord-to-notes drills now produce a useful 'hint' on a wrong answer, showing the chord formula (like 1-3-5 for major chords, for instance). Knowing these, the root note, and the scale notes will help you to formulate any chord.

Speaking of scales, this update also includes scale-to-note and note-to-scale drills to help you test and memorize these as well. Wrong answers on the scale-to-note drills will also produce a hint usually mentioning the mode number and the main scale this is related to.

The scale degree formula (chord formula, mentioned above) has been added to the chord detail pages as well, and some chord definitions have been updated slightly after seeing the formula generated for each - some of these may have had the correct notes, but defined at the wrong octave - this should be resolved now.

Examples:

• Notes in chord - three or fewer notes
• Notes in scale - Diatonic
• Scale by notes - Diatonic
• C major chord

Chord Knowledge Drills

This is the first release of interactive drills! This update includes 'notes in chord' drills that you can use to learn and memorize (and test yourself) on the notes that are in each chord. You'll get a score at the end to show how you've done.

Each drill set includes a random sample of the questions available for that particular drill category, so you can run through these repeatedly and get different questions each time.

Many more types of drills are planned, but this first update includes much of the work involved in making more of these in the future.

Please give these a try and let us know if there is anything that would make these better.

Examples:

• Notes in chords - three or fewer notes