Ultimate Ear Training for Piano, Guitar, & More: Play by Ear

Master the major scale and its scale degrees to sharpen ear training, hearing and singing each note. Discover the super scale to solidify intervals and counting.

Master the super scale to count to any note within a key and rapidly train your ear by treating each scale degree as its own ladder.

Explore how scale degrees one, two, and three serve as home anchors in relative pitch, with one as rest, two as a lift, and three returning to one in keys.

Take quizzes to recognize scale degrees 1, 2, and 3, use the super scale to guess pitches, and reinforce ear training for the major scale.

Develop ear awareness of scale degrees four and five by hearing a plagal cadence from four to three and the dominant five resolving to one.

Practice patterns for scale degrees one through five to train your ear. Sing note names by number, review patterns, and take quizzes on notes and sequences, including Ode to Joy.

Recognize scale degrees 1–5 by ear, identify notes from patterns, and land on one by counting steps, linking to major chord context.

Explore the eight notes of the major scale with forward and backward super scale exercises to memorize scale degrees six, seven, and eight, and understand their lead-in motion.

Engage in a quick ear-training quiz to recognize scale degrees six, seven, and eight by listening to examples and identifying these notes.

Practice identifying scale degrees from 1 to 8 and hearing melodies within a key. Learn how composers modulate to new homes to refresh your ear while anchoring to the scale.

Explore the minor scale and its natural, melodic, and harmonic forms, and how the relative minor relates to the major scale and the shared root.

Practice the natural minor scale as a super scale, then explore melodic and harmonic minor variants, using step numbers and ear training quizzes to recognize these sounds.

Develop ear training by identifying minor scale degrees as you hear notes labeled with flat and borrowed tones, including flat three, flat seven, flat six, and melodic minor options.

Test your minor skills with quick sequences in a quiz that uses patterns such as 7-6-5 and 3-4-3-2 across the minor scale. Many songs use the minor scale.

Develop your ear to distinguish major and minor chords, even when minor chords appear in a major key, and learn how inversions can alter their sound.

Develop your ear by identifying major and minor chords by listening, including chords in various inversions. Repetition through quick quizzes reinforces recognition of triad qualities.

Develop ear training by mastering the eight most common intervals in a major key, and recognize seconds, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, sevenths, and octaves by sound.

Practice recognizing intervals by listing major second, major third, perfect fourth, major sixth, major seventh, and octave in an exercise sequence, hearing their differences and harmonies.

Train your ear to distinguish intervals by listening to single and paired notes, identifying perfect fourths, major thirds, octaves, and major sixths with mental pitch awareness.

Identify the most common chords in a key using roman numerals, focusing on 1-4-5 major and 2-3-6 minor patterns.

Apply scales and chord families to real songs, using bass note movement and interval differences to identify a 1-6-4-1-5-1 chord progression by ear.

Practice ear training by analyzing a major-key chord progression, tracing a bass descent from the one chord, and using the super scale and its inversion to sing backward.

Analyze how the bass note anchors the progression and how counting backwards from one to five guides the one-five-six-four pattern, revealing common ear-training leaps and steps.

Practice ear training by listening to a song to identify its chords, starting on the one chord, using interval math to count down a fifth, and confirm the 1 1 4 4 6 6 5 5 pattern.

Explore relative pitch through identifying a one chord as home, tracing bass motion and stepwise one-to-two progressions, and using major/minor patterns and five over seven substitutions.

Develop ear training by analyzing major and relative minor chords, six chords, and five-over-seven substitutions to hear smooth voice leading in common progressions.