Time for the Uke Hunt Annual Chord Quiz. Test your chord knowledge, theory knowledge and musical ear. The method is as low-tech as ever.
– Grab a pen and paper.
– Answer the questions (using a ukulele to help you is entirely allowed and encouraged).
– There might be spoilers in the comments.
– Check the answers here (no peeking).
– Return in triumph or despair and share you score in the comments (some of these questions are pretty tricky, so not too much despair). And I’d be interested to know which rounds you found easy and which were hard.
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Chord Diagrams
Name the 7 chord from the chord diagram (e.g. C7, D7 etc.).
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Chord Flavour: Diagrams
All these are G chords but are they G, Gm, G7, Gm7, or G9?
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Chord Flavour: Listening
All these are D chords but are they D, Dm, D7, Dm7, or Dmaj7?
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Chord Makeup
Each of these triads of notes makes up a minor chord (e.g. the notes of a Fm chord are F, Ab and C). Which one? (The notes are listed in alphabetical order starting at C to make it harder.)
16. D, F and A.
17. C, E and A.
18. C, Eb and G.
19. E, G and B.
20. D, G and Bb.
Chord Progression
Match the MP3 to the chord sequence:
a) G – D – G – D – G
b) G – C – D – C – G
c) G – Am – D – C – G
d) G – Em – C – D – G
e) G – D – Em – C – G
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Hello,
I was surprised how good I was. But now I know that my knowledge about chords and my listening skills are not too bad. I only had one fold, and I think it was a lack of attention (I had some eggs in the pan meanwhile).
The only part I ignored was the one where I had to recognize which combination of chords is minor or not. I don’t know really much about this topic. When I looked at them I guessed that it’s all minor but I wasn’t sure. Big surprise afterwards when I saw that it was right.
So thank you very much it was fun and very nice to check my competences.
Greetings Eve