Dr. Trythall wrote Chords&Keys for his music theory students in Music Theory classes at West Virginia University.
Chords&Keys offers drills in every aspect of music fundamentals from pitch notation through chromatic chord spelling and modulation. Practice by clicking a sounding screen keyboard with immediate feedback.
click here to download Chords&Keys freeware.Double-click Chords&Keys.sit to unstuff; open Chords&Keys folder; double-click Chords&Keys to start. Keep C&K Materials in same folder with application.
Chords&Keys Units and Exercises are:
- NOTATION AND SCALES
- 1-0. Pitch Notation
- 1-1. Modes
- 1-2. Major Scales
- 1-3. Melodic Minor Scales
- 1-4. Harmonic Minor Scales
- 1-5. Natural Minor Scales
- 1-6. Scales <or= 3b&2#
- 1-7. Scales > 3b&2#
- INTERVAL SPELLING AND IDENTIFICATION
- 2-1. Perfect 4&5
- 2-2. Major 3&6
- 2-3. Major 2&7
- 2-4. Minor 3,6,&7
- 2-5. Minor 2
- 2-6. MajMin 2,3,6,&7
- 2-7. ID Intervals #1
- 2-8. ID Intervals #2
- 2-9. ID Intervals #3
- 2-A10. ID More Intervals
- 2-A11. Intervals Inversion #1
- 2-A12. Interval Inversion #2
- KEY SIGNATURES
- 3-1. Major Key Signatures
- 3-2. Minor Key Signatures
- 3-3. Relative&Parallel Keys
- 3-4. Circle of Fifths Keys
- TRIAD SPELLING, FUNCTION, IDENTIFICATION,
- 4-1. through 4-A18.
- CADENCE SPELLING AND IDENTIFICATION
- 5-1. through 5-8.
- NON-CHORD TONE SPELLING AND IDENTIFICATION
- 6-1. through 6-4.
- 7TH, 9TH, 11TH, 13TH CHORD SPELLING AND IDENTIFICATION
- 7-1. through 7-A14.
- SPELL AND IDENTIFY V7 & viio7 IN KEYS
- 8-1. through 8-8.
- SCALE IDENTIFICATION FROM CADENCES, MODULATION
- 9-1. through 9-A15.
- SECONDARY V7 and viio7 SPELLING AND IDENTIFICATION
- 10-1. through 10-A11.
- BORROWED, AUGMENTED & NEAPOLITAN SIXTH CHORD SPELLING AND IDENTIFICATION
- 11-1. through 11-6.
