Chord Spelling Quiz
Triads and seventh chords. Spell every note with its proper letter, or name the chord from its notes.
Steps drill
A half step is the very next note: one fret up or down the same string. A whole step is two half steps: two frets. Between plain letters every step is a whole step, except E–F and B–C.
Keyboard: press 1–4 to answer, Enter for the next one.
More help: free lessons and practice
- musictheory.net: Steps and Accidentals. A short visual lesson on the piano keyboard showing half steps, whole steps, and how sharps, flats and doubles move a note.
- Open Music Theory: Half Steps, Whole Steps, and Accidentals. A free textbook chapter with a video of how the two steps sound and a drag-and-drop practice exercise.
- Riff Journal: fretboard note-naming routine. A guitar exercise: walk up a string saying “I’m on X, the next note is Y, it’s a half or whole step,” then play it.
- Tenuto app by musictheory.net. A paid phone app with fretboard note and interval drills, for extra reps on the go.
Frenzy
Spell chords against the clock. Each level is 10 chords; get 8 or more right to unlock the next chord type. Miss the same level three times and you drop back to replay the level before it. Faster answers and streaks score more points.
Track
Speed
Spell this chord
C
Settings
Keyboard: A–G add a note, # or + raise it, - lower it, Backspace clears the selected box, ← → move between boxes, Enter checks and moves on. In Name it, press 1–4 to answer. Notes can go in any order. Tap a box to select it: the next note you pick replaces it, and Clear note empties it.
An early preview from FretThis. The full game is on the way.