This test can be taken in two ways. You can either sit at a piano and find the chords and play them. Or you can figure out the answers away from an instrument. It’s worth doing the test both ways. If you are at the piano remember the fingerings for chord inversions and make sure they are always correct.

It’s always possible to move from any chord to an inversion of the next chord by moving each note by at most a step. This is called moving to the nearest inversion. The note can either stay the same or move up or down one. For example C root position CEG can move to G first inversion by C going down one to B, E going down one to D and G staying the same producing BDG.

This is by far the most common way to move between chords in all types of music and is essential to pop playing. Try to find the nearest inversions in the following quiz. Remember that notes can only stay the same or move by one step.