EXERCISES

Build the skills behind your music

From key signatures and reading notes to recognising chords by ear. Score, streak and record are kept separately for each mode.

Play scales from sheet musicMajor and three minor forms in every key.

Read, recognise and build

From notation

Keys and signaturesLearn key signatures: from key names to notation and backCircle of fifthsNeighbours by fifths, relative and enharmonic keysNotesRead notes in treble and bass clefIntervalsBuild intervals up and down from a given noteChordsIdentify chord inversions from notation: 5/3, 6, 6/4Build chordsPlay the requested chord on the keyboard - the bass determines its inversion

Seventh chordsD₇, ii₇ and vii₇: build and resolve

Dominant seventh D₇Build D₇ and its inversions and resolve them to the tonicResolving ii₇Play T₆ directly or D₄₃ followed by its resolution to the tonicLeading-tone seventhsBuild VII₇ in a key and resolve it to the tonic

Name the intervalName a written interval: its number and qualityInverting intervalsName the inversion of an interval: the rule of nineResolving tritonesResolve an A4 or d5 in a key: play the two notesBuild a scalePlay the seven degrees of a scale from the tonic: whole, whole, half…Church and folk modesRecognise Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian and MixolydianTranspositionPlay a tune in another key, thinking in scale degrees

Listen and find the answer

By ear

For ear-training exercises, use headphones or find a quiet place: here you listen instead of reading the notes.

Scale degrees by earIdentify a scale degree by earIntervals by earRecognise melodic and harmonic intervalsChords by earRecognise major, minor, diminished and augmented chords and their inversionsThree minors by earHear which minor it is: natural, harmonic or melodicT, S, D by earHear a chord's function after the tonic: tonic, subdominant or dominantMeter by earHear the strong beats and name the time: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8Rhythm echoListen to a bar and tap its rhythm back