Interactive music theory exercises arranged from basic to advanced. Start with notes and rhythm, then move on to scales, keys and chords. Every quiz uses a real staff and checks your answers right away. Several sections also have printable worksheets with answer keys.
Read and Write Notes
Name the notes on the staff in the treble, bass, alto and tenor clefs, and place a named note on the staff. Ten questions per quiz.
Go to Note ExercisesNote Names: Letters, Solfège, German
Do you know the note names in letters (C D E), in fixed-do solfège (Do Re Mi) and in German, where B is H? Test yourself with 10 quick questions.
Take the Note Names QuizTime Signatures
Analyze a time signature, complete measures that are missing a note or rest, recognize the time signature from a written rhythm and find syncopation.
Go to Time SignaturesRhythm
Note values and rests, ties and dots, syncopation, off-beat notes, tuplets, how a phrase starts and ends, and rhythm dictation, from whole notes to sixteenth notes.
Go to Rhythm ExercisesEar Training
Listen to a piano melody and decide whether it is major or minor, find the time signature, or name the key. You see it written once you answer.
Go to Ear TrainingTempo and Agogics
What each Italian tempo term means, from Grave to Prestissimo, and the tempo changes: accelerando, ritenuto, a tempo and rubato.
Go to Tempo ExercisesDynamics
What each marking means, from ppp to fff, and the changes of intensity such as crescendo, sforzando and fortepiano. Order markings from soft to loud.
Go to Dynamics ExercisesArticulation
Legato, staccato, accent, tenuto and marcato: the name and the symbol on the staff, in both directions.
Go to Articulation ExercisesCadences
Recognize whether a phrase ends with an authentic (perfect or imperfect), plagal or deceptive cadence, or a half cadence, from the last two chords written for piano.
Go to Cadence ExercisesTonal Functions
Tell whether a chord is tonic, subdominant or dominant in a major key from its written notes. Three levels, with substitutes, inversions and the dominant seventh.
Go to Tonal FunctionsIntervals
The foundation of harmony. Interval number, harmonic and melodic intervals, ascending and descending, steps and leaps, consonance and dissonance, half steps and enharmonics; practice from 2nds to octaves, a custom quiz, a complete analysis and printable worksheets.
Go to Interval ExercisesScales
Identify and build scales on the staff, with a key signature or with written accidentals: major (natural and mixed), Mixolydian, minor (natural, harmonic and melodic), Dorian and chromatic. With a full quiz and custom worksheets.
Go to Scale ExercisesScale Degrees
Which degree a note is in its key and what it is called, and the reverse exercise. With major and minor keys, so you learn to tell the leading tone from the subtonic. The exercises are inside the theory page on scale degrees.
See the Scale Degree ExercisesKeys and Key Signatures
Identify any key from its key signature and write key signatures correctly on the staff.
Go to Key Signature ExercisesNeighboring Keys
Find the five neighboring keys of any major or minor key and decide whether two keys are neighbors or distant.
Go to Neighboring KeysChords
Identify and build triads (major, minor, diminished and augmented) and seventh chords on the staff, in root position and in inversions.
Go to Chord ExercisesSinging Games
Sing a note or a chord and the microphone checks whether you are in tune: the better your pitch, the farther your musician jumps.
Go to the GamesMusic Dictionary
The full glossary of music theory terms, to look up any concept before you start the exercises.
Go to the Dictionary