Read and hear music
Name notes on the staff, learn key signatures, and train your ear on intervals and chords.
Note Trainer
Treble and bass clef
Name notes on the staff, from the lines and spaces out to ledger lines above and below.
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Key Trainer
Key signatures
Name major and minor keys, build key signatures, list the sharps and flats, and find your instrument’s key.
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Ear Trainer
Intervals, triads, 7ths
Identify intervals, triads, and 7th chords in a choice of instrument sounds, with notation playback.
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Reading music
Reading notesTreble clef lines and spaces, and faster ways to read themKeep "Every Good Boy" as an aid, and add landmark notes and step-and-skip reading so you count lines less often.Reading notesHow to read bass clef ledger linesLandmark notes and counting tricks for the ledger lines that low brass and bassoon players read often.Reading notesReading the grand staff: treble and bass clef togetherHow the treble and bass staves connect at middle C, which notes go on which staff, and how to read both at once.Reading notesHow to read tenor clefWhere middle C sits in tenor clef, how it compares with bass clef, and landmarks for reading the high parts in bassoon, trombone, and euphonium music.Reading notesHow long does a sharp or flat last in a measure?Accidentals last until the bar line, apply only to that line or space, and carry over a tie. What courtesy accidentals mean.Reading notesEnharmonic notes and the chromatic scaleWhy F♯ and G♭ usually share a fingering, how half steps work, and how to learn the chromatic scale on your instrument.Band skillsKey signatures: which notes are sharp or flat, and remembering themHow to read a key signature, name the key, and stop missing sharps and flats in the middle of a piece.
Ear training
Ear trainingRecognizing intervals by earHow to learn every interval from middle C, use songs as optional aids, and move on to hearing each interval directly.Ear trainingHearing the difference between major, minor, and diminished chordsWhat gives each triad its sound, and how to tell them apart in the band's own chords.Ear trainingSeventh chords: dominant, major, minor, and diminishedHow seventh chords are built, what each type sounds like, and how to tell them apart by ear.Ear trainingFully diminished 7th chords: how they are built and where they goThe chord made of stacked minor 3rds: how to spell it, why there are only three sets of sounds, and where it often goes.