# The chord chart

The whole key in one strip above the question. Tap any cell to narrow the drill to the chords you keep missing.

## Where you are, and what is coming

The chart is the row above the question: every chord of the key in order, with the current one lit. It works the same way for a scale, a progression or a song.

The big chord name tells you only what to play now. The chart also shows where you are in the piece and what comes next.

![The chord chart strip for C minor: Cm, D dim, E♭, Fm, Gm, A♭, B♭, Cm, with the first cell highlighted.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/chart/strip.webp)

![The practice screen with the chart on top, the chord name, the answer balls and the keyboard.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/chart/app.webp)

## Click cells to drill only those chords

Click cells to select them, and the drill narrows to your selection. Three cells in a row might be the two bars you keep missing; two cells might be a chord change your hand finds hard.

The metronome, key tours and repeats work as before. Click the cells again to release them and the whole key comes back.

![The same chart with three cells underlined: Fm, Gm and B♭.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/chart/selected.webp)

> A selection can survive a key change, so you can practice the same three chords in every key without selecting them again. In Preferences you choose whether it stays through manual key changes, only through automatic ones, or not at all.

## Progressive practice: chunks

For scales, the chart can be practiced in pieces. **Play in chunks** takes a few cells at a time and moves on only after you have played them cleanly:

- **Cumulative** grows the chunk: C, then C D, then C D E… This is a common way to learn a long line without practicing mistakes into it.
- **Window** slides a frame of fixed length: C D E, then D E F, then E F G, so the overlapping cells come round again.

A chunk is two to seven cells long. A missed note does not reset the chunk; it only keeps it from advancing.

![The play-in-chunks setting with chunk length and the cumulative / window choice.](https://pianokitty.com/features/en/chart/chunks.webp)

## Other details

- The chart can show inversions as *C.2*, or as *C/E* if you prefer slash chords.
- In a song, bar lines and sections are shown, so the chart reads like a chord sheet rather than a list.
- You can switch the chart on or off in [Preferences](https://pianokitty.com/preferences), for example to see it only while you learn something new.

## Open a chart

- Try it: [C minor, triad by triad](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=scales&key=C&mode=naturalMinor&acc=flat&chart=true&voicing=triads): Click a cell to narrow the drill to that chord.
- Try it: [The same key, sevenths](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=scales&key=C&mode=naturalMinor&acc=flat&chart=true&voicing=sevenths): Cm7, Dm7♭5, E♭maj7 and the rest of the key.
- Try it: [Growing chunks](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=scales&key=C&mode=naturalMinor&acc=flat&chart=true&voicing=singleNotes&seq=inOrder&chunks=true&chunkn=3&chunkmode=cumulative): Three cells at a time, and one more with every clean pass.
- Try it: [A song’s chart](https://pianokitty.com/app?subject=songs&spec=Am%20F%20C%20G%20%7C%20Am%20F%20C%20G&seq=inOrder&chart=true): The chart with bar lines, like a chord sheet.

Related: [Hints, and how much help you want](https://pianokitty.com/features/hints.md), [What is this chord, exactly?](https://pianokitty.com/features/chord-info.md), [The chords you miss come up more often](https://pianokitty.com/features/adaptive-practice.md)

Source: https://pianokitty.com/features/chart