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Chords

Stop holding shapes. Start knowing chords.

A grip you can only hold is a picture. A grip whose root, third and seventh you can point to is a chord, and that difference is trainable.

The Chord X-Ray drill in Fretbound: a D chord grip on the fretboard, asking you to find every root inside it

Chord X-Ray, live in the app: it deals you a real grip and asks for what is inside it: every root, every third, every fifth. Tap the board to answer; every miss is remembered and comes back until it does not miss.

Build-a-Chord runs the other direction: an empty board, a chord name, and you place the grip note by note. Together they close the loop between recognising a chord and constructing one.

The Fretbound intervals tool, showing distances between notes as shapes on the fretboard

Built from intervals up

Chords are stacked intervals.

Chords are stacked intervals, so the training starts underneath: see any distance as a shape, then meet the shell voicings of root, third and seventh, that jazz comping is built on, then extend into sevenths and beyond.

By the time the progressions arrive in the Play tab, a chord symbol is not a diagram to recall. It is a set of choices you can see on the neck.

All of it lives in the app.

Create a free account and it is yours. No card, no trial clock, on the web today and on iPhone as soon as the App Store door opens.