Interactive GUI (graphical user interface) of 544 piano chords built with javascript (jQuery) that links to an interactive flash-based diagram for each chord. You can rotate the notes on the chord diagram and hear audio. Also contains a section where you can log-in and save your own chord charts to hear with the interactive flash-chord diagrams.
Another GUI of 544 piano chords, this time built entirely in flash. Prioritizes the most common chords and maintains the more unusual ones behind a couple of clicks. Also has audio.
Contains a list of the 72 most common piano chords.
This is kind of a clone of my list-of-chords website, but the design is nice and simple, and it shows the chords in a slightly different format.
This site was the inspiration for my List-of-chords.com, so many thanks to Shane. It doesn't have much information about each chord other than an image, but I have to give props to the man, because otherwise I wouldn't have created list-of-chords.com
This was one of my first flash-based music tools. It's a piano chord finder that animates the playing of the notes by having the note name fly up towards you in a cheesy 3D way. It alsy has some tools for moving the chords around the circle of fifths, and adding on 9ths, 13ths and other notes with a drop-down menu.
This was an experiment where I thought, "What if you made buttons for the different types of piano chords in different geometic shapes?" So I made the button for a M7 chord a different shape than the button for a dim7 chord, etc. The end result is kind of lame and wonky, but this was an early experiment for me when I was learning flash. The design also makes me want to barf when I look at now, but hey, it's free.
Another lame early attempt at a piano chord finder. It uses a volume slider type interface to select the chord root and then blue buttons with white text to select the chord type.
This javascript-based chord finder is on several sites and has been around for about 10 years.
Here are some more of it's ilk:
JPG images at low resolution, and high resolution PDF of 12 piano chord charts, each root with the six most common chords on that root.
The most basic skill at the piano is simply being able to name the notes. What is the key between the two black keys? D! What two pairs of keys have no black keys between them? B to C and E to F. This simple flash quiz tests your knowledge of the keys on the piano.
A tool to help you practice your sight reading skills at the piano focusing on the Treble Clef. You can click on the piano or type the answers with your computer keyboard.
A tool to help you practice your sight reading skills at the piano focusing on the Bass Clef. You can click on the piano or type the answers with your computer keyboard.
Easy ways to remember the lines of the treble and bass clef.
Easy ways to remember the spaces of the treble and bass clef
A good next step after you've learned the lines and spaces of the treble and bass clef but are still not confident in your sight-reading
A simple quiz to help you learn the ledger lines of the grand staff
Type the Note Names To Practice Reading on the Grand Staff
A silly game with a laser gun to help you practice your sight-reading at the piano
Test your Visual Knowledge of Intervals
A nice personal (non-commercial) blog about a guy named Al and his experiences with piano sight reading. Has a lot of good tips, images of the first page of pieces Al is working on, and even mp3 recordings of Al playing the piano.
I spent several years teaching solfgeggio and sight-reading. Solfeggio is a great technique for improving your ability to understand music and it's structure. This flash demo shows the three most common chords, the I, IV and V chord along with random notes from the seven tones of the major scale. The amazing thing is, for the most part, the music works, despite the fact that it's randomly generated.
For ear training purposes, it's better at least part of the time to use all 12 tones from the western "octave" system. This demo is similar to the last but uses all 12 tones.
This musical trainer is for people interested in sight-reading with the voice. Obviously you can't train singing over the internet, but you can handle the intellectual theory behind it. This is for people to study their solfeggio in different keys, and to know theoretically the distance between notes on the treble clef.
This is a very useful ear-training tool. Some of the most difficult intervals to distinguish are half-steps and whole steps. This is a little quiz where you hear three notes, and you have to answer what are the intervals between the notes.
Learn the major scale, the natural minor scale, the harmonic minor scale and the melodic minor scale
A whiteboard presentation by Karen Cuneo Ramirez about playing music with piano chords by ear using the cirle of fifths based on theory and proximity, rather than memorized sounds.
My You Tube Channel: mostly related to piano chords and mostly dating back to 2007 and 2008. If you'd like a direct link to my most famous YouTube video, about my piano chords method, you can find that here.
Three separate flash tutorials regarding fourths. Fourths are an important part of my piano chord method. This is a helpful tool for people who are studying my method. It's also a helpful tool for anyone interested in music, music theory or piano chord theory.
An overview of my "three finger piano" method taught in my book "How to Speed Read Piano Chord Symbols".
A simple quiz to help study major and minor chord inversions.
Quiz Over Common Types of Piano Chords.
A tool to help you learn more about the ii > V chord progression.
The ii > V chord progression with ninths and flat ninths.
This is a tutorial that teaches you about diminished chords.
This is a classic "spaceship shoots stuff" type game, only this time what you're shooting are the basic rhythmic building blocks, the Whole Note, Half Note, Quarter Note, Eighth Note and the Sixteenth Note. You start by shooting Whole Notes, which then break into smaller intervals. A perfect introduction to rhythmic symbols for someone who is just starting to learn to read music.
A measure of 4/4 is broken up into four pieces with random rhythms for each beat. Generates 256 different rhythms. A helpful supplement for my book "How to Read Music Rhythm Like a Genius"
An extension of the previous link, this flash tutorial generated over 1000 randomly generated rhythms.
This quiz is useful for people who are just starting to learn rhythm and need help just recognizing basic rhythmic elements such as eight notes and sixteenth notes.
Answer some basic questions about basic rhythms
A visual representation of beats in a measure.
A listing of 100 music blogs - very cool