Ear training exercises

Pick a skill and try a few questions right away, no account needed. Every exercise adapts to your level, from obvious differences at level 1 to the fine detail professionals hear.

Music Theory

• Intervals: Learn to recognize intervals by ear, from thirds and fifths to the tritone. Free online exercises that adapt to your level, melodic first, then harmonic.
• Chords: Free online chord ear training: tell major from minor, then diminished, augmented, sus, 7th and 9th chords. Exercises that adapt to your level.
• Scales: Recognize scales and modes by ear: major, minor, harmonic and melodic minor, Dorian, Lydian, Phrygian, pentatonics and blues. Free adaptive exercises.
• Rhythm Dictation: Free rhythm dictation exercises: hear a rhythm, pick the right notation. Quarter notes, eighths, sixteenths and rests, from one bar up to five.
• Cadences: Learn to recognize cadences by ear: authentic (V-I), plagal (IV-I), half (I-V) and deceptive (V-vi). Free online exercises that adapt to your level.

Mixing

• EQ Boost: Free EQ ear training on real music loops: hear a frequency boost and find it on the spectrum. From +10 dB wide boosts to +2 dB narrow ones.
• EQ Cut: Train your ear to hear EQ cuts on real music loops. Find which frequency was removed, from -14 dB wide cuts down to -3 dB narrow ones. Free online.
• Compression: Free compression ear training on real loops, level-matched so volume never gives the answer away. From none versus heavy up to limiting and pumping.
• Compression Ratio: Train your ear to hear compression ratios on real loops. Threshold, attack and release stay fixed, only the ratio changes. Free adaptive exercises.
• Attack and Release: Learn to hear compressor attack (1 to 35 ms) and release (50 to 700 ms) on real loops. Ratio and threshold stay fixed. Free online exercises.
• Saturation: Blind A/B saturation test on real loops, level-matched: find which clip is saturated. Soft, hard and asymmetric saturation, lighter at every level.
• Panning: Free panning ear training: hear a note and place it on the left-right stereo field. The margin tightens from ±35% at level 1 to ±3.5% at level 10.
• Volume Gap: Hear a loop get louder or quieter and estimate the change in dB. Free volume ear training, from 5-9 dB jumps at level 1 to fractions of a dB at level 10.
• Filter: Free filter ear training on real loops: hear a low-pass or high-pass filter and find its cutoff frequency. From 250 Hz-5 kHz at level 1 to 50 Hz-16 kHz.
• Reverb: Train your ear for reverb on real loops: hear the dry and wet versions and place the decay time on a 0.15 to 4 second scale. Free adaptive exercises.
• Stereo Width: Free stereo width ear training: hear how wide a sound is, from mono to fully wide, and place it on a slider. The margin tightens from ±28% to ±3%.
• Frequency Matching: Hear a pure reference tone and match its frequency with a fader, by ear. Free frequency ear training, from 250 Hz-5 kHz at level 1 to 50 Hz-16 kHz.