Free Music Guides — Cloud Atelier Studio

Frequently Asked Questions

Free Music Tools

Practice what you learn with these free interactive tools:

• Circle of Fifths — key signatures, relative keys and diatonic chords
• Scale Library — notes, positions and the chords of any scale
• Chord Library — how any chord is spelled, with piano, guitar and ukulele shapes
• Turkish Makam — the comma system, the çeşni, and twenty makams played microtonally — each with its own page
• Turkish Usul — düm and tek strokes, zaman counts, and seven usuller played back beat by beat — each with its own page
• Turkish Instruments — construction, technique and how to recognise the five core voices of the fasıl ensemble — each with its own page
• Interval Reference — every interval, how it sounds and a song that opens with it
• Music Theory Cheat Sheet — scales, modes and chord formulas at a glance
• Music Production Glossary — the studio vocabulary, defined plainly
• Music Theory Glossary — tempo, dynamics, articulation, notation, harmony and form — 214 terms, defined plainly
• Keyboard Trainer — name the lit key, then build intervals, scales and chords by hand
• Interval Ear Trainer — practise recognising intervals by ear
• Chord & Scale Ear Trainer — name a chord, a scale or a whole progression by ear
• Dictation Trainer — hear a melody or a rhythm and write it down — the conservatory exercise
• Sight-Reading Trainer — name what is written on the stave, from a note to a whole scale
• Key Signature Trainer — read a key signature and name the key, or work it the other way
• Fretboard Trainer — the notes on the neck, and the shapes they build
• Rhythm Trainer — a rhythm appears, you tap it back and get timing feedback
• Chord Progression Generator — chord progressions by key and mood
• Chord Analyzer — find the key and Roman numerals of any progression
• Scale & Chord Finder — find all diatonic chords in any key
• Scale Finder — give it the notes, it names the scales that contain them
• Chord Identifier — name a chord from the notes in it
• Chord Detector — play a chord into the mic and it names it live
• Chord Transposer — move a progression to any key or capo fret
• Nashville Numbers — chords to Nashville numbers and back, in any key
• Famous Chord Progressions — the progressions songs actually run on, and who used them
• Song Chords Database — what progression a song is built on
• Twelve-Tone Matrix — every prime, inversion, retrograde and retrograde-inversion of a tone row
• Metronome — an accurate click from 30 to 300 BPM
• BPM Tap Counter — tap along and read the tempo
• Time Signature Explorer — hear how any time signature is counted
• Online Sequencer — programme a beat, a bassline and a melody on a step grid
• Virtual Piano — a playable keyboard with note names, scales and chords marked
• Online Tuner — a microphone tuner with a cents readout
• Guitar Tunings — standard, drop and open tunings, with what each is for
• Camelot Wheel — harmonic mixing reference for DJs and producers
• Pre-Master Checker — LUFS loudness, mono compatibility and a phone-speaker preview before you post — 100% private, runs in your browser