Ear Training X - 7th Chords in Closed and Drop 3 Voicings

This month’s ear training exercise complicates the previous 7th chord exercise by presenting them in closed and Drop 3 voicings. ‘Drop’ terminology is frequently used by guitarists and simply describes the process of ‘dropping’ one note from a closed voicing one octave. In this case Drop 3 means “take the third note from the top of a seventh chord in a closed voicing and drop it one octave”. For example, C-E-G-B would become G-C-E-B. Guitarists make use of these voicings because they tend to spread the intervals of chords out in such a way that makes them easier to play.

You can see me play this exercise here and download the code for it here. To use the code, simply open the code in Supercollider, select the Language tab, and click ‘evaluate file’.