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

Arpeggio and Scale Chart improvements

The theme this week is more arpeggio chart updates, or more specifically, updates to anything with a melodic chart. Many of the changes here are to address any issues that were mentioned in the last update, but there are also a few others. Here are the highlights:

• Updated the melodic chart algorithm to skip strings when the next note is not available on the next string. This brings a bunch of benefits, but mainly helps to find better short charts, and also charts in weird tunings.
• Refined selection of 'short' and 'long' arpeggio charts. The 'short' charts now almost never require movement along the fretboard.
• Group the by-scale arpeggios by the type of chord that the chart is for. This makes it generally easier to find things, rather than having just a big pile of charts to sort through.
• Fixed display issues with the new arpeggio chart collections feature - this should look generally nicer and more polished now.
• Added arpeggio chart collection (by scale) to the main search results. Search for 'A minor' (for instance), and you should see these represented now.

Examples:

• C major short triads for extended chords