Using the select menus below, select either a major, minor or harmonic minor key.
The buttons below the neck graphic are labeled with the chords in your selected key. Choosing from these buttons will display the notes of the corresponding chord on the guitar neck graphic.
The buttons located above the neck graphic labeled, triads, 7th chords and 9th chords, are used to select 3-note (triads), 4-note (7th) or 5-note (9th) chords.
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Click on a tab below (Major, Minor or Dominant7) to reveal practice tracks in each key for a specific chord type. Experiment by finding repeating patterns in whatever arpeggio you have pulled up in the arpeggio practice tool above. Also, if you'd like to play along with various chord progressions in other styles, check out the chord progressions page.
Set the arpeggio practice tool to any major key.
To see the scales automatically chosen for you in more extensive chord progressions in every key, check out the new looping chord progression tracks on the progressions page!
Set the arpeggio practice tool to any minor key.
You can play along with the separate audio players below or, if you want to select a looping area, you can click the VIEW FULL VERSION link in the SoundSlice player below which will open access to all keys in a new browser window. The player embedded below is the Cm chord.
In case you're wondering what is meant by a 7alt chord, it's just a way of saying a dominant7 chord (the chord built on the 5th note of a major scale) with a raised or lowered 5th or 9th or any combination of the 2. So, for instance, if the chord chart of a song calls for an A7alt, you could play any of these chords: A7#5, A7b5, A7#5#9, A7#5b9, etc.
You can play along with the separate audio players below or, if you want to select a looping area, you can click the VIEW FULL VERSION link in the SoundSlice player below which will open access to all keys in a new browser window. The player embedded below is the G7alt to Cmaj7 progression.
The 2 chords used in each of the audio practice tracks are listed below each audio player. The first chord (the V7 chord) is built on the 5th note of a major scale.
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