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Flash Chord is a free online practice tool for musicians that uses randomly generated chord progressions to help users practice chords, scales, or arpeggios. It emphasizes “unpredictability”: unlike fixed songs or backing tracks, users can see at most one chord in advance, training them to react instantly to unfamiliar harmony.
The tool supports settings for tempo, number of bars per chord, time signature, key, and difficulty. Difficulty levels include Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced, covering chord types such as major, minor, 7, m7, maj7, sus, 9, 11, 13, half-diminished, and altered chords. Users can also enable extended tones, rare enharmonic chords, slash/inversion chords, and the option to hide the next chord. It is suitable for guitar, piano, bass, wind instruments, strings, and pitched percussion, but it does not provide instrument-specific fingerings.
The main text clearly states that Flash Chord is a free online tool. The project is open source and hosted on GitHub, where users can contribute code, testing, or feedback. They can also support hosting, domain, and future development costs through donations. No fixed pricing, membership plan, or course package is disclosed.
Its strengths are that it is lightweight, free, and highly configurable. The randomization mechanism is well suited to breaking fixed muscle memory, especially for practicing improvisation, modulation response, and arpeggio tracking. Its limitations are also clear: it is not a teaching tool, does not provide chord tones or piano/guitar fingerings, and does not include full backing tracks. At present, specifying a key overrides the difficulty settings; features such as secondary dominants and tritone substitutions have not yet been implemented; and the metronome may briefly stutter in some Safari/iOS scenarios.
It is better suited to learners who already have some foundation and know how to play chords or scales on their instrument. It is not ideal for complete beginners looking for a structured course, teacher feedback, or certification. The main text does not provide information on access from mainland China, so this needs to be tested in practice.
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