# Identify chord

Solfege play a chord, and you identify it. The idea is that you do this in three steps:

- First identify chord type. Is the chord minor/major/diminished/septim?

- Then, what inversion?

- Finally, what tone is the toptone?

It is important that you take you time, maybe sing the chord, and identify the chord type before you try to find the inversion. Also note that this exercise use lesson files, and some lessonfiles only ask for chord type, or chord type and inversion.

Following is a list of some of the chord exercises, in an order I suggest you can practise them. You can of course find all the lesson files on the config page of the exercise.

- chord-min-major

- chord-min-major-inv-not

- chord-min-major-inv

- chord-dim-aug

- chord-dim-aug-min-major

- chord-m7-7

- chord-m7-7-inv-not

- chord-m7-7-inv

- chord-m9-9

- chord-maj7-7b5

- chord-m7-7-maj7-7b5

## Config

On the top the the config page there is a frame labeled Lesson file, that selects what lessonfile to use. This frame is the same on all exercises that use lessonfiles. There are two combo boxes. The one on the let you select what collection of lession files to use. The collection 'solfege' contains the files distributed with the program. The 'user' collection is files created by you, by default located in `$HOME/lesson-files`. It is possible to define other collecitons by editing `$HOME/.solfegerc&shortversion;`.

Below that there is a checkbutton labeled Change midi instrument for this exercise. If the Enable checkbutton is checked, the frames below let you select three different instrument. The first will be used for the highest tone in the chord, the second for the middle tones and the last for the lowest tone in the chord. If not enabled, Solfege will use the instrument set from the Preferences window.

## Key bindings

- New chord: Alt n

- Repeat: Alt r

- Repeat arpeggio: Alt a

- Give up: Alt g