Chord X — Guitar Ear Training

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About this app

+ No scrolling through endless menus looking for the right exercise. The game adjusts its difficulty as you go. Just hit Start!
+ Auto-generated levels that focus on your weaknesses.
+ Build custom levels to practice the chords you want.
+ No MIDI sounds. Only real samples recorded by real musicians, with additional sound libraries available to spice up your practice.
+ Practice in both major and minor keys.
+ High-quality audio libraries.
+ Detailed statistics that show you how far you've come and help identify problem areas.
+ Available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and Ukrainian.

Learn to play by ear and stop relying on chord charts. ChordX helps guitarists and other musicians practice recognizing chord progressions common in popular music. It turns the chore of everyday ear training into a dynamic and interactive game that will keep you engaged.

Would you like to pick up your guitar or ukulele and instantly start playing along to a song you're hearing for the first time in your life? With some practice, you can train your ear to identify chord changes in the music around you. This aural skill allows you to learn songs before you even pick up your instrument.

Developing a good musical ear can be a daunting task, but our app makes it easy to get started. You don't need to know music theory or have prior experience with ear training to benefit from using ChordX. Unlike many other ear training apps, ChordX is focused on a single exercise making it the perfect introduction to ear training. The exercise starts out extremely simple, and the app adjusts the difficulty as you go. The more advanced you are, the more challenging it becomes.

With ChordX, you will be listening to high-quality audio recordings of a real guitar played by a professional. We have created an audio library of chord voicings most used by guitarists, and we invite you to take full advantage of it! And to make it better still, we are working to create more sound libraries like this to help make your practice sessions more varied and effective.

ChordX allows you to customize your practice experience to make it as easy or as difficult as you want it to be. If you already possess good aural skills, you can push the difficulty to the extreme by adjusting payback tempo and the type of cadence. And if it's still too easy because you've got perfect pitch, no problem! Just hide the chord names to help you concentrate on the relationships between the sounds.

Your performance during practice is analyzed to provide you with detailed statistics that show you where you excel, and what to work on next. You can see exactly how good you are at identifying each of the chords, and what mistakes you make most often.

Ratings and reviews

This app is amazing. As a guitarist who's wanting to learn to recognise chord progressions it's ideal. It uses regular chords that most songs would use but it switches it up by changing the voicing and key so you don't get too familiar with the 'sound clip' rather than the character of the chords. The difficulty is punishing but fair. The only thing I'd love would be a practice mode where you could freely tap on the chords to get an idea for different progressions yourself.

I am really excited that this app exists because I need to learn chord recognition and I have not seen an app for this in the past. However this just goes too fast for me. I get two chords right and it quickly goes to four chords and then I'm lost and it goes back to two chords. I wish there was a dummy mode where you could start with the real basics like recognizing a major from a minor chord and then throwing in sevenths. If I could do that first then I might be ready for this tougher mode.

This app is incredibly useful trainer!!! Traditional ear training isn't really practical for people who do this as a hobby. Who cares about telling the difference between a major and minor 2nd when you can't hear a song's chord progression! But nothing more practical than drilling down on chord progressions like this app does. I haven't seen anything like it, and I've looked. I just hope they add more sounds, like a flamenco guitar sound and flamenco progressions.

What's new

+ Improvements to hands-free mode