Intervals
Two notes, one gap. Major 3rd, Perfect 5th, Octave. The building blocks of every melody you've ever heard.
Train your ear until you hear what you've been missing. The consistent, daily practice that actually builds it.
"Playing is really more about listening than it is about playing."
Pat Metheny
Tap any card. The page plays it. Same notes, same timing, same waveform you'll be working with in the app.
Two notes, one gap. Major 3rd, Perfect 5th, Octave. The building blocks of every melody you've ever heard.
A scale up and back down. Tell Major from Natural Minor. Dorian from Mixolydian. By sound, not by ledger lines.
Four notes in sequence, then together. Major, Minor, Diminished, Augmented, Dominant 7. The quality, not the root.
Most music students mean to practice. Hardly anyone keeps it daily. On iPhone, Aubel ties the exercise to things you already do: waking up, and unlocking your phone.
It won't dismiss until you've named today's interval, scale, or chord. Solve a few in a row and the alarm stops. Not awake enough? You're off after a few misses.
Put Instagram, TikTok, whatever you doomscroll, behind a quick ear-training challenge. Want fifteen minutes? Name three intervals first.
Practicing alone is easy to skip. Aubel puts a score on it — weekly leagues, a global board, and a friend on the other end when you want one.
You're sorted in with players at your own level. Climb into the next tier by the end of the week, or slip to the one below. Then it resets and you go again.
One board, everyone who plays on it. See exactly where your ear stands against the whole app.
Challenge a friend to the same set of questions, answer whenever you like, and see whose ear is sharper.
One chord progression, the same for everyone, every day. Guess it by ear, Wordle-style, one position at a time.
Train mid-round, the alarm catch, stats, Focus, progression. iPhone, light and dark.
A trained ear shrinks the gap between what you imagine and what you play. You hear chord changes coming. You catch your own out-of-tune notes. You learn songs by listening.
Why ear training