Ear training · piano

Perfect Pitch

Train your ear with a real piano sound: name the notes of the scale, then intervals (second, third, fourth, fifth…), from beginner level up to all 12 chromatic intervals. Read notes on the treble and alto clefs too. Free, no sign-up.

Free keyboardC4 → C5

Tap a note: its interval from C shows up here.

Notes

Name the note you hear

Intervals

Two notes played one after the other, within one octave

Note reading

Name the note written on the staff

Reference C (levels 1, 1.5 and 2)

Direction (levels 4 and 7)

Results

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Exercise

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Lv. 1 Natural notes

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Lv. 2 With sharps

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Lv. 3 From C

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Lv. 4 Major scale

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Lv. 5 Aeolian minor

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Lv. 6 Chromatic

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Lv. 7 All random

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Read. 1 Note reading – Treble clef

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Read. 2 Note reading – Treble & alto

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This browser blocks cookies here: results are saved in local storage instead. Points out of 40. Hover or tap a cell for the date and details.

Rules

Each exercise has 20 questions: 20 notes, intervals or written notes to find.
Right answer found by ear, without touching the keyboard: 2 points.
Right answer after using the game keyboard: 1 point. In reading, the keyboard is used to answer and playing the note is free.
Wrong answer: 0 points. The game plays your answer, then the right one.
Maximum score: 40 points per exercise. Replaying the question is free.
Only finished exercises are saved. “Give up” does not count.

How to improve with Perfect Pitch

Perfect pitch (absolute pitch) is naming a note with no reference at all; relative pitch is recognising the distance between two notes, the interval. Both can be trained: levels 1 and 2 train note recognition (with a reference C if you want one), levels 3 to 7 train interval recognition, first from C, then from any note.

For guitarists, recognising intervals by ear helps you learn songs by ear, improvise and tune without a tuner. A few rounds of 20 questions a day are enough: follow your scores in the results table and move on to the next level once you reach 80%.

Intervals, from easiest to hardest

Start with the major scale intervals from C (major 2nd, major 3rd, perfect 4th, perfect 5th, major 6th, major 7th, octave), then those of the natural minor (Aeolian) scale (minor 3rd, minor 6th, minor 7th), before tackling all 12 chromatic intervals, tritone included, from any note.

Reading notes on the treble and alto clefs

The reading exercises show one note on the staff, up to two ledger lines above or below. Level 1 uses the treble clef; level 2 mixes the treble clef and the alto clef (C clef on the 3rd line), where middle C sits on the middle line.