Ear Training
How good is your ear, really? Two notes play, low then high — name the interval between them. Ten rounds of relative pitch training with instant feedback. Free, in your browser, no microphone needed.
10 rounds. Two notes play, low then high — name the distance. No microphone needed.
How to Train Your Ear With Intervals
Ten rounds a day is a genuine practice habit — here’s the loop.
Choose Your Set
Common intervals (6 answers) if you're new, all intervals (12) when you want the minor seconds and the tritone in the mix.
Listen, Then Name It
Two notes play, low then high. Replay them freely, then pick the interval — from minor 2nd up to the octave.
Learn From Every Miss
Wrong answers show what you picked versus what it was. After ten rounds, your score comes with a verdict and a next step.
An Interval Trainer That Sticks
The conservatory drill, stripped down to a game you’ll actually repeat.
Real Interval Drills
Two notes play in sequence, low then high, and you name the distance — the classic exercise every conservatory ear class is built on.
Common Six, Then All Twelve
Begin with the six sing-song intervals beginners learn first, then unlock the full chromatic set once the easy ones feel automatic.
Feedback Every Round
A wrong answer shows you what you picked and what it was, immediately — the correction lands while the sound is still in your ear.
Replay Before You Answer
Hear the pair again as many times as you need. Training your ear isn't a memory test, so the game never rushes your listening.
Speakers In, Buttons Out
No microphone is used or requested — the game plays tones and takes button answers, so you can train silently in a library or on a bus.
A Practice Habit, Anywhere
Loads instantly in any browser on phone or laptop — no account, no install, so five spare minutes anywhere can become an ear session.
Open the Tab, Train, Close the Tab
Ear training only works as a daily habit, so this game removes every excuse: no sign-up wall, no app to download, no microphone permission — just tones out of your speakers and buttons under your fingers, running entirely in the browser tab you already have open.
No Microphone
Listening drills only — buttons answer
No Account
Zero sign-up between you and round one
No Install
A browser tab is the whole app
What a Trained Ear Unlocks
Intervals are the atoms — everything musical is built from them.
Play Songs by Ear
Name the jumps in a melody and you can find them on your instrument
Pass Aural Exams
Interval identification is the backbone of ABRSM and conservatory ear tests
Sing Harmonies
Hold a third or a sixth confidently because you can hear what it is
Write Better Melodies
Composers who know their intervals hear the line before touching a keyboard
Transcribe Faster
Recognizing intervals on the first listen cuts transcription time in half
Warm Up Your Ears
Ten rounds before a rehearsal wakes up your listening like scales wake up fingers
Ear Training, Explained Properly
Ear training is the practice of turning sound into understanding — hearing a melody and knowing what it’s made of. This page is both a game and the hub of a small set of ear games; here’s why intervals come first, how to learn them fast, and where the rest of the set fits in.
Intervals are the atoms of music
Strip any melody down and you get a chain of intervals — this note to that note, a third up, a second down. Stack intervals on top of each other and you get chords; a major triad is just a major 3rd with a minor 3rd on its shoulders. That’s why interval recognition is the first exercise in every ear training curriculum: once the twelve distances become familiar objects, melodies stop being mysterious streams of sound and become sequences you can name, sing, and find on an instrument.
The song-anchor trick
The fastest route to reliable intervals is the oldest one: pin each interval to the first two notes of a song you already know. “Here Comes the Bride” opens with a perfect 4th; the Star Wars theme leaps a perfect 5th; “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” starts with an octave; the Jaws motif creeps up a minor 2nd. When a round plays, your job isn’t to compute semitones — it’s to ask “which song just started?”. Build your own anchor list from music you love; borrowed anchors fade, personal ones stick.
Relative pitch beats perfect pitch
People often assume serious musicians have perfect pitch. Almost none do — what they have is highly developed relative pitch, the skill this game trains. Relative pitch is what lets a guitarist hear a song once and play it, a singer find a harmony, a producer spot that the second chord is minor. Unlike absolute pitch, which is essentially set in childhood, relative pitch improves at any age with modest, regular practice. Ten rounds a day for a month is a genuinely different ear.
The full ear training set
Interval recognition is one muscle in a bigger system, so this page anchors a small set of games that each train a different one. The perfect pitch test checks note-naming with no reference — pitch memory in its purest form. The pitch matching game closes the ear-to-voice loop: hear a note, sing it back, get graded in cents. And the vocal range test maps the instrument you sing with, from your lowest stable note to your highest. Intervals here, notes there, voice in between — rotate through them and no part of your ear gets lazy.
Make it a loop, not an event
Ear training pays off through frequency, not intensity — five focused minutes daily outworks an hour on Sunday. A good weekly rotation: intervals here most days, a run of the perfect pitch test to check what’s sticking, the pitch matching game to keep your voice honest, and a monthly vocal range test to watch your range grow. When you practice singing between sessions, keep the vocal pitch monitor open — live feedback turns every practice minute into ear training too.
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Perfect Pitch Test
Hear a note with no reference — can you name it?
Pitch Matching Game
Hear a note, sing it back — the mic grades you in cents.
Vocal Range Test
Sing your lowest and highest notes — get your voice type.
Note Identifier
Sing or play a note and see its name instantly.
Pitch Detector
Read the live pitch of any sound — Hz, note, and cents.
Vocal Pitch Monitor
Watch your voice draw a live pitch line across a note grid.
Ear Training FAQ
How does the ear training game work?
Ten rounds of interval recognition. Two notes play in sequence, low then high, and you name the distance between them from the buttons. You get instant feedback after each answer, can replay the pair before committing, and finish with a score and a verdict that tells you what to work on next.
What is an interval, exactly?
The distance in pitch between two notes, measured in semitones — from the minor 2nd (one semitone, the Jaws motif) up to the octave (twelve). Every melody is a chain of intervals and every chord is a stack of them, which is why interval recognition is the core ear training exercise.
Which level should I start on?
Start on the common set — six intervals beginners learn first: major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, and octave. They're the easiest to anchor to songs. Once you score 8 or better consistently, switch to the full set of all twelve and meet the trickier minor intervals and the tritone.
How do I actually get better at this?
Anchor each interval to a song you already know: a perfect 4th opens 'Here Comes the Bride', a perfect 5th launches the Star Wars theme, a major 6th begins the NBC chimes, an octave leaps into 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'. Sing the pair back after each round, and train a few minutes daily — short and frequent beats long and rare.
Do I need a microphone?
No. This game plays notes through your speakers or headphones and you answer with buttons — it never requests mic access, and nothing is recorded or uploaded. When you're ready to test your voice, the pitch matching game is the one that listens.
Is ear training the same as perfect pitch?
No — and that's good news. Perfect pitch (naming a lone note with no reference) is rare and essentially fixed by adulthood. Ear training builds relative pitch — judging notes by their distances — which improves at any age and is the skill working musicians rely on daily.
Is it free?
Completely free — no account, no install, no daily limits. The game runs entirely in your browser, so you can train whenever and however often you like.