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Short pieces on the parts of ear training that no amount of extra rounds will teach you on its own.
Relative Pitch Is the Trainable One
Every drill on this site trains distance, not absolute pitch — and the difference matters more than the marketing suggests.
Together or One After the Other
Sounded together, two notes blend into one colour. Sounded in turn, they become a shape you can sing.
Why Major and Minor Sound Different
A single semitone separates the two most common answers in ear training. Here is what that semitone does.
Hearing the Landing Chord
Four chords can be the same four chords and still be two different loops. The difference is where they stop.
How Often to Drill, and for How Long
Recognition is a memory skill, and memory answers to spacing far more than it answers to hours.
Sing It Back Before You Name It
The fastest way to stop guessing is to make your voice commit before your vocabulary does.
Why these six
Drills are cheap to run and easy to run badly. These six pieces cover the decisions that no amount of extra rounds will make for you: what recognition training can honestly promise an adult learner, whether to hear two notes together or in sequence, what actually changes between the two commonest chord answers, how to hear where a progression lands, how often to practise, and why singing an answer back beats guessing at it.
How to read them
They are short and they stand alone, so start with whichever describes the problem you currently have. If you are new to all of it, read the first one — it sets the expectation the rest of the site is built on — then go straight to the interval drill and come back when something feels stuck.
Where to go next
Everything here is theory about practice. The practice itself is in intervals, chord qualities, and progressions, and the record of how it is going is on your progress page.