Ear Training

Listener

Develop your ear for intervals, modes, chord qualities, and scale families. Listen, identify, and build deep aural recognition.

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Practice Mode

Connect what you hear to what you play with scale and pattern drills.

Chord-Scale Explorer

Hear a chord, then see which scales fit over it.

Circle of Fifths

Understand the harmonic relationships behind what you're hearing.

Play Along

Use your ear to navigate real chord changes with backing tracks.

Common questions

How long until I hear intervals reliably?
Most players recognize the easy intervals (octave, perfect fifth, major third) within a week of daily practice. The tricky ones (minor seconds, tritones, sevenths) take a month or two. Speed-round mode is designed for that final 10%, making your recognition fast enough to use in real time, not just identify on a test.
Should I learn intervals or chords first?
Intervals: they're the building blocks. Once you can hear a major third versus a minor third, chord qualities become obvious (major chord uses a major third on the bottom, minor chord uses a minor third). Working chords-first without interval grounding makes you memorize sounds without understanding why.
What's a "tonal context" for ear training?
Hearing an interval in isolation (just two notes) is harder than hearing it in a key. When you play a I chord first then an interval, your ear knows where "home" is and can place the new note relative to it. Most musical ear training is contextual; isolated-interval drills are a stepping stone, not the final skill.