Chord Sieve

Chords fall down a single lane with the lowest, most urgent chord highlighted. Play it, judge its quality by ear and by its notes, then send it to the matching bin. Wrong bins cost points, and any chord that reaches the top ends the run; clearing chords raises the level and adds new qualities.

• Hear the active chord, then choose its quality bin
• Qualities include major, minor, diminished, augmented and the seventh chords
• Combos boost your score; mistakes and an overflow end the run

• Desktop: press Space to hear the chord and number keys 1-7 to sort into bins; or click Hear chord and the bin buttons
• Phone & tablet: tap Hear chord and the quality bins

• Daily: a shared seeded run that ranks on its own board
• Practice: endless fresh runs for drilling

• Listen for the third and fifth, major and minor split on the third, diminished and augmented on the fifth
• Sort the highlighted chord fast; letting it rise eats the time you need for the ones behind it

Chord Sieve is an ear-training game for recognizing chord qualities under time pressure.

• Skills: ear training, chord qualities, harmony, listening
• Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
• For parents & teachers: telling chord qualities apart by ear.

Judging a chord's quality by ear and by its notes, then filing it, is triad and seventh-chord recognition.

Requiring both routes — the sound and the spelling — is the original demand.

They check each other in a useful way. Quality is determined by the intervals stacked above the root, so major, minor, diminished and augmented are spellable facts; but they are also immediately audible, and a player who can only do one of the two will be slow at whichever is needed.

Chord Sieve is an ear-training game for recognizing chord qualities under time pressure. It is an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.