Take any chord. Understand it from basics to advanced.
Four tools, one ladder. Start with the shape under your fingers, climb to the harmony behind it.
Rung 1 of 4:Basics
See what’s inside a chord.
Every voicing up the neck, each note coloured by the job it does. Press play to hear it.
Open ChordsRung 2 of 4:Fundamentals
Find the chords that belong together.
Pick a key and a mode. Get its seven chords, spelled correctly, ready to play.
- Imajor
- iiminor
- iiiminor
- IVmajor
- Vmajor
- viminor
- vii°diminished
TonicIiiivi
PredominantiiIV
DominantVvii°
iv♭VI♭VII
V/VV/vi
Rung 3 of 4:Intermediate
Learn what each chord does.
Home, away, and the pull back. Plus the borrowed chords and secondary dominants that colour a key.
Open the mapIdown a 3rdviup a 4thiiup a 4thVnext?IviIV
Rung 4 of 4:Advanced
Write progressions that move.
Build chord by chord and see how each root move behaves, and where it can go next.
Open Path MapEvery rung links to the next.
Each tool answers the question the one before it raises.
- ChordsWhat is inside it?which keys it’s in
- KeysWhat belongs with it?what each chord does
- Scale Degree MapWhat does it do?build a progression
- Path MapWhere can it go?