Train your ears to recognise intervals and chord types. Pick what to practise, listen, answer, and the trainer keeps track of what you find hard.
Add BPM every bars, up to BPM.
Play bars, then go quiet for . Keep playing through the gap and see if you land back in time.
Stop after minutes.
Your hand keeps moving down and up the whole time. The boxes only show when it touches the strings.
Your log is saved in this browser, on this device.
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The tuner listens through your microphone, works out which string you're playing and goes green when you're within 3 cents. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere. The tuner is also in the menu at the top of every page.
Send Joe a clip and get personal feedback on your playing, plus a plan for what to work on next.
See Mentorship PlansChoose Intervals or Chord types, pick what you want to be tested on from the list, and press Start. Listen, then click the answer (or press its number key). Get it wrong and you can listen again and have another go. Only your first answer counts towards your score.
Once you've answered, click any of the other answers to hear it from the same starting note. Comparing a major 3rd with a minor 3rd, or a dominant 7th with a major 7th, straight after each other is one of the fastest ways to learn the difference.
Every interval up to an octave, played going up, coming down, both notes together, or a mix. Each one comes with a well-known song to help you remember it, like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for a perfect 5th. Start with the Starter set (major 3rd, perfect 5th and octave) and add more as they get easy.
Major, minor, augmented and diminished triads, sus chords, every common 7th chord, 6th chords and 9ths. Turn on inversions to hear chords with the 3rd, 5th or 7th in the bass, which is much closer to how chords really sound in songs.
Want to know more about a particular one? See every interval and chord type, each with its own page to hear it, see it on the guitar and test yourself.
Ear training is practising recognising musical sounds by ear: the distance between two notes (an interval), the type of a chord, and eventually whole melodies and progressions. It makes learning songs, improvising and playing with other people much easier.
Start with the major 3rd, perfect 5th and octave, as they sound the most different from each other. Then add the minor 3rd and perfect 4th, and build up from there.
Link each one to the start of a song you know. The trainer shows a song for each interval after you answer, such as Here Comes the Bride for a perfect 4th and Somewhere Over the Rainbow for an octave.
An inversion is a chord with a note other than the root at the bottom. In 1st inversion the 3rd is lowest, in 2nd inversion the 5th, and in 3rd inversion (7th chords only) the 7th.
Yes. Your choices and how you're doing with each interval and chord are remembered in this browser, so you can pick up where you left off.