chorDLE — Ear Training Game

Name: chorDLE — Ear Training Game
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Beat Kitchen LLC

Hear chords. Name intervals.

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

3 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Music
Developer

Beat Kitchen LLC
Language

EN
English
Size

8.7
MB

If you can hear chords, you can sit down and play with other people without having to guess what they are playing. chorDLE trains that with chord progressions taken from real songs. The songbook holds 17,023 songs, and every progression shows you the songs that use it. I–V7–vi–IV alone appears in 199, including Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Little Red Corvette and With Or Without You. Learn to hear the patterns and start sitting down with music and musicians and playing along. Start with one question: major or minor. No theory needed. Tap a chord to hear it, then answer. After each hand, the chords light up on the Harmony Wheel by the job they do in the key: tonic, predominant or dominant. The Colors level adds sevenths, suspended, augmented and diminished chords, voiced the way the songs play them. Three ways to play hands-free: - Blindfold Test: hear an interval, say its name. - Sing It Back: hear it, then sing it. - Chord Trainer by voice: say "play", then call out the chords. Or play the original chorDLE: a chord plays, you pick out the intervals inside it, and you fill a line on your card. Fourteen levels take you from two-note intervals to full seventh chords. Host a room and play the chords while everyone guesses, or join with a six-character code. VoiceOver works across the Chord Trainer. Free to start, with no sign-up needed to play. Sign in with Discord or Apple to sync across devices and join the leaderboard. Made by the producers and musicians at Beat Kitchen, a real community with weekly gyms, office hours and feedback sessions. Your ears are better than you think.

Ratings & Reviews

5.0

out of 5

3 Ratings

MUCH better for Voiceover users!
1d ago
Angela_KM4FCF
FIVE STARS from me now! This ear training game is MUCH BETTER for Voiceover users now! The ONLY thing I can't use is the blindfold mode. I've tried it, but when I double-tap the 🙈 button under each clue to hear the chord, I can't hear the chord. I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong, or if there's a bug that needs to be addressed, but right now, I'll just stick with the piano keyboard under each clue; I can play the game fine that way.I'll DEFINITELY play this game with at least ONE of my piano students! I've actually got a bingo card app that will let me create my own bingo cards, so I may create my own chordle card, play the intervals/chords myself, and let her mark the tiles!Let me clarify which blindfold mode I'm referring to. I'm not talking about the hands-free mode; that works fine, although sometimes when I say, "Tritone," it doesn't take. The blindfold mode I'm referring to is in the actual bingo game itself. For each clue, there's a 🙈 emoji that appears instead of a keyboard. I'm supposed to double-tap the 🙈 button to hear the clue. Well, I can double-tap that button all day long, and I STILL don't hear it. That's got to be looked into. But it doesn't take away from the five-star review!

Developer Response
Thanks again! There are actually a few blindfold games so I may need to get more info from you. If you have a moment, can you drop me a note either through the app or through the website? There is also a bug report button in some of the games that will send along the state of the app so I can look into what’s going on, but it’s not in all of them, and it may not be a noticeable button. The main blindfold game players a tone and then listens for you to dictate the interval. And yes, multiplayer bingo allows you to create your own quizzes in a room and play with others using your own rules and revealing or hiding the answers however you want. Nathan——Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’ve made some changes behind the scenes that I think should make the game easier to navigate for those with visual impairments. Feel free to leave a note directly through the app as it is probably a more reliable way to reach me but I will keep my eye out here too. I think I addressed most of those issues but will need to test it further. But minimally, it should be an improvement. By the way, make sure to try the blindfold test which was designed to be played hands-free and does not require the screen at all!
MUCH better for Voiceover users!
1d ago
Angela_KM4FCF

FIVE STARS from me now! This ear training game is MUCH BETTER for Voiceover users now! The ONLY thing I can't use is the blindfold mode. I've tried it, but when I double-tap the 🙈 button under each clue to hear the chord, I can't hear the chord. I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong, or if there's a bug that needs to be addressed, but right now, I'll just stick with the piano keyboard under each clue; I can play the game fine that way.I'll DEFINITELY play this game with at least ONE of my piano students! I've actually got a bingo card app that will let me create my own bingo cards, so I may create my own chordle card, play the intervals/chords myself, and let her mark the tiles!Let me clarify which blindfold mode I'm referring to. I'm not talking about the hands-free mode; that works fine, although sometimes when I say, "Tritone," it doesn't take. The blindfold mode I'm referring to is in the actual bingo game itself. For each clue, there's a 🙈 emoji that appears instead of a keyboard. I'm supposed to double-tap the 🙈 button to hear the clue. Well, I can double-tap that button all day long, and I STILL don't hear it. That's got to be looked into. But it doesn't take away from the five-star review!
Developer Response 3d ago
Thanks again! There are actually a few blindfold games so I may need to get more info from you. If you have a moment, can you drop me a note either through the app or through the website? There is also a bug report button in some of the games that will send along the state of the app so I can look into what’s going on, but it’s not in all of them, and it may not be a noticeable button. The main blindfold game players a tone and then listens for you to dictate the interval. And yes, multiplayer bingo allows you to create your own quizzes in a room and play with others using your own rules and revealing or hiding the answers however you want. Nathan——Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’ve made some changes behind the scenes that I think should make the game easier to navigate for those with visual impairments. Feel free to leave a note directly through the app as it is probably a more reliable way to reach me but I will keep my eye out here too. I think I addressed most of those issues but will need to test it further. But minimally, it should be an improvement. By the way, make sure to try the blindfold test which was designed to be played hands-free and does not require the screen at all!

VoiceOver: the blindfold mode button under each clue is now a real button and plays the chord when you activate it. Thank you to the reader who reported this. Sound fixes. After using the microphone, the game could send sound to the earpiece instead of the speaker, so the phone seemed silent unless you plugged in headphones. Sound now returns to the speaker on its own, including after a call or an alarm. Bug reports now carry the details we need to track down sound problems.

Version 1.0.7 1d ago

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Seller: Beat Kitchen LLC
Size: 8.7 MB
Category: Music
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

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Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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