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Sunday Practice Lab

Four free tools for the week before Sunday. Learn your numbers, keep steady time, train your ear and find the key of a song. Turn your sound on. Nothing you do here is saved or sent anywhere.

Number Flashcards

Church musicians talk in numbers. "Go to the 4." This game helps you find any number in any key without stopping to think. Pick your keys, then tap the right chord.

Pick your keys and numbers
Keys
Numbers

Key of C

What is the 4 chord?

Metronome

Practice slow first. When it feels easy, go up a few clicks. Do not know the number? Tap the Tap button along with the song four or five times.

80

beats per minute

Find Home

The 1 chord sounds like home. The music can stop there. The 5 sounds like it wants to go home. The 4 sounds like a step away. Press Play, listen to four chords, and tell me about the last one.

Level

Key Finder

Sing, hum or play a song, and this page listens and tells you the key. It also works on a recording. Give it about 20 seconds of the song. The sound stays on your device.

Use a YouTube video

Paste the link to the song, then press Load.

Listen

Tips for a good answer
  • With the microphone, play the video out loud through your speakers, not headphones.
  • On a computer in Chrome or Edge, Listen to this tab hears the video straight from the page. When the box comes up, pick this tab and turn on "Also share tab audio."
  • Or play the song on your TV or another phone and hold this one near it.
  • A singer alone, or the piano alone, gives the cleanest answer. A full band works too, but give it more time.
  • Many gospel songs go up a key near the end. If the answer changes, press Start fresh at the key change.
  • Check the answer by ear. Press Play the 1, 4 and 5 and see if it fits the song.

Want the next step? Take the two-minute quiz and see where you are on the Gospel Piano Path. I am Henry Q Allen, a self-taught church pianist. I am legally blind, so everything here is in large print.