![]() If you came here from Facebook and the games are not working, please copy the link and paste it on your favorite browser. On mobile devices, Facebook uses a built-in browser which does not support the technology to play these games.If you use a modern device with a modern browser, you should not have any problems. The games have been tested throughly using many devices. Adds the tritone (augmented fourth or diminished fifth).These games use levels to train your ear: You can login with your Facebook account to save your progress and scores.Īs a musician, it will be very useful to recognize all the intervals. Practice every day and soon you will have musical superpowers. Learn how to recognize ascending, descending and harmonic intervals. Practice and improve your musical ear with these free games. Augmented intervals are half a step higher than major and perfect intervals (C to G#). Diminished intervals are half a step lower than minor and perfect intervals (C to Fb). Minor intervals are half a step lower than a major interval (C to Db). These are the intervals in a C major scale: Imperfect consonances and dissonances: only use "minor" and "major"Īll the intervals can be diminished and augmented.Perfect consonances: only use "perfect".Not all the intervals (quantities) can use all the quality names: When we take into account the accidentals (sharps and flats), we use a quality name to represent the interval. Imperfect consonances: thirds and sixths.Perfect consonances: fourths, fifths and octaves.There are three main types of music intervals: C will always be a "third" from A, even if it is C# or Cb.Īn "octave" is a well known interval because it is the same note name but higher in pitch: As you can notice, D is a "fourth" from A, and so on.Īccidentals (such as sharps and flats) don't count when you are naming the quantities of intervals. The note C would be the third note after A, so C is a "third" from A. The distance between A and B is called a "second", because B is the second note name after A. We will use the basic notes without accidentals:Īn interval is made up of a quantity name (such as third) and a quality name (such as major). Now that you know all the basics about musical notes, let's learn more about intervals. To understand music intervals you first need to understand the musical notes: ![]() ![]() What is a music interval?Ī music interval is the distance between two notes. Learn more about the interval ear training games below. Mixed intervals: ascending, descending and harmonic.In your major 2nd and major 3rd case in particular, you can think about the major scale. They are free and work on mobile devices: Once you associate an interval with a part of a song that contains the interval, a song that you like or can otherwise easily remember, memorizing intervals will become many times easier. If you hear that when descending, the first note is your relative note and not your (root) I, you'll have an easier time picking the second note of the interval.Are you ready to take your musical ear to the next level? Welcome to our online ear trainer using 4 amazing games. As you improve, your interval recognition will become more instinctivelike seeing and recognizing a color. You listen to a two notes and name the interval between them. At first the practice may seem dry and theoretical. If you do insist on thinking of the first note of your descending interval as the root, then you have to pick the VII (major or dominant) below your root, making a third inversion out of your interval, thus complicating the task. So interval ear training is the process of learning to hear and name intervals in music. Thus, the task of picking the 'root' is more difficult, partly because you are thinking of the first note as the 'root'. So, when descending, the second note is the I, but you were only given a relative (either II or flat II). However, when descending, the first (random) note you hear is actually 'relative' to the second note you need to pick. In this case, you are picking either the II or II flat of the I. Thus, picking the half step or whole step above is fairly straight-forward because the next note is the 'relative' note to the first one. Specifically, the first (random) note you hear when ascending is always the 'root' note of your interval. The short answer is, it's music theory, and you need to change 'how' you are hearing it when descending. For those of us not tone deaf, this is something that will improve with practice, which is why the Ear Trainer was built in the first place.īut, you do have a slightly increased chance of getting it wrong when descending, and there is a reason. Picking notes 'by ear' is only 50/50 if you are tone deaf.
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