Free piano ear training, on your own keyboard

48 melodies from tunes you know, or endless random ones

The tunes are short phrases from 40 pieces that are out of copyright: Ode to Joy, Für Elise, Greensleeves, Scarborough Fair, Amazing Grace, The Entertainer and more. Most are in C, the rest in the key people usually hear them in. The songs page lists all 48.

Generated melodies are random and always in C. You choose the scale (major, major pentatonic, natural or harmonic minor), the range (a fifth, an octave or a tenth up from middle C) and the biggest jump between two notes. Or ask for a mix of both.

Hints, from reading every note to pure ear training

There are four levels of help. All notes puts every note of the melody on the staff before it plays, so you’re reading with the answer played to you. Named shows the first note with its letter under the staff. First note shows the first note alone. None leaves the staff empty until you play.

Letter names can go under every note you can see. You can also hear the key’s chord before each melody, limit the replays, and choose whether the right note counts in any octave.

Find it, or a clean run

In find it, a wrong note doesn’t lose your place. You keep looking until you hit the right key, at your own pace. Wrong keys while you look for the first note count as one mistake, however many you try. Clean run is stricter. A wrong note sends you back to the start of the melody. In both, a melody counts as first try only when you play it through with no wrong notes and without showing the answer.

Missed melodies come back

Get one wrong and it returns three questions later. Get it right first time and it comes back once more, six questions after that. Two first-time answers in a row clear it. A missed melody longer than today’s level comes back as its opening, at today’s length.

Five difficulties, eight levels

Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert each set the hints, scoring, tempo, replays and random-melody options in one choice. Beginner is 3–4 notes with the first note shown and letter names on; Expert is 7–10 notes in the exact octave, nothing shown, and one replay. Change any setting by hand and the difficulty reads Custom.

The level sets the length, from 3–4 notes up to 8–12, and you start at level 3, with 3 to 6 notes. Get six of your last eight right first time and it moves up a level; miss four of your last six and it moves down. Set Moving up to Suggest and it offers the next level instead, or to Off and pick the level yourself. At the lower levels, long tunes are cut to their opening notes.

Mistakes by interval and scale degree

The Results tab charts your mistakes by interval and by scale degree, so you can see which jumps and which notes of the key you miss most. It also charts questions per day and first try by day, and keeps your first-try rate (today, all time and on your current settings), your daily goal (30 melodies to start, anywhere from 5 to 100), your run of first tries and your streak of days.

Your piano’s own sound

Over MIDI, the melodies play on your piano, through its own speakers. Without a MIDI connection to play on, a sampled grand piano plays in the browser instead.

Practise whenever you like

There’s no daily limit and no locked content. The daily goal is a target, and you can keep going past it. On a full 88-key piano, hold the lowest A to replay the melody and hold the top C to skip it, so your hands can stay on the keys. On a computer keyboard, Space replays and the right arrow skips. A short tour runs on your first visit, and Take the tour in the menu runs it again.