Exercises to train your musical ear: you listen to a melody or a rhythm on the piano and answer or write it down. In the mode and key exercises, a reference A4 sounds before each melody, as in classroom dictation. Answers are checked right away, and once you answer you see what you heard written on the staff.
The exercises
Major or Minor?
An 8-measure melody plays and you decide whether it is in a major or a minor key. The main clue is the 3rd above the tonic.
Start Major or Minor?Recognize the Time Signature
A melody plays with the first beat accented and you choose its time signature: 2/4, 3/4 or 4/4, or 6/8, 9/8 or 12/8. Three levels.
Start Recognize the Time SignatureRecognize the Major Key
An A4 and a melody in a major key play, and you write the key with the key builder. From 2 accidentals to all of them.
Start Recognize the Major KeyRecognize the Minor Key
The same with minor keys, in the harmonic minor scale: the raised leading tone helps you find the tonic.
Start Recognize the Minor KeyRecognize the Key: Major and Minor
Major and minor keys mixed: you must name the tonic and the mode. If you answer the relative key, the exercise tells you.
Start Recognize the Key: Major and MinorTime Signature and Key
As in the entrance exam for professional-level conservatories: name the time signature and the key of the melody. It only counts if both are right.
Start Time Signature and KeyRhythm Dictation
Rhythm dictations organized by note values: recognize the rhythm you hear, read a rhythm and pick its audio, or write the dictation with cards.
Start Rhythm DictationBefore you start, turn up the volume or put on headphones: in a noisy place the details are harder to hear. If you want to review the theory, see major scales and minor scales. And to train your ear by playing, try the ear-training games.