Welcome to Ear Training!
Here you will find a collection of apps to help train your ear in interval and chord recognition. Practicing for just a few minutes every day will improve your ability to transcribe melodies and progressions in songs you know and love!
Apps
Interval Cheat Sheet
- Minor 2nd (half step): Jaws
- Major 2nd: Happy Birthday
- Minor 3rd: Attack on Titan
- Major 3rd: Summer (Vivaldi)
- Perfect 4th: Here Comes the Bride, Force Theme
- Perfect 5th: Twinkle, Also Sprach Zarathustra
- Minor 6th: Across the Stars
- Major 6th: My Bonnie, Leia's Theme
- Minor 7th: There's a Place For Us
- Major 7th: Take on Me
Chords Cheat Sheet
- I (tonic): Home, resolution, stability.
- ii (subdominant): Ambivalent instability, close to home.
- iii (mediant, tonic function): Wistful, incomplete resolution.
- IV (subdominant): Ambivalent stability, happy to come home or push ahead.
- V (dominant): Tense, yearning, unresolved, furthest from home.
- vi (submediant, tonic function): Sad, stable home.
- vii (dominant): Tense, unresolved, reaching for home.
- V / I (authentic cadence): The quintessential homecoming.
- IV / I (plagal cadence): Light resolution with tonic as a common tone.
- V / vi (deceptive cadence): Melancholy stepwise resolution, common in rock and pop.