Curriculum
Fifteen paths in the order a music school teaches. Pass each lesson at 80% to open the next; a placement test opens the paths you already know.
Not sure where to start?
The placement test takes about five minutes and opens the paths you already know.
First steps
BeginnerHigher or lower, major or minor, do-mi-sol, fifths and octaves: where an ear starts.
0 / 5 lessonsOpen pathAural skills for beginners
BeginnerListening, clapping and singing for young beginners: higher or lower, happy or sad, a rhythm clapped back, a note and a short tune sung back.
0 / 5 lessonsOpen pathSolfège: scale degrees
BeginnerHear each note as a degree of the scale: do-mi-sol, the pentatonic, the whole scale, leaps, then a do that moves.
0 / 5 lessonsOpen pathRhythm and meter
BeginnerQuarters and eighths, the dotted half, triplets, syncopation, then the meter of a few bars.
0 / 5 lessonsOpen pathNote reading
BeginnerTreble clef, bass clef, ledger lines, both clefs at once, then key signatures, against the clock.
0 / 5 lessonsOpen pathMelodic Dictation
IntermediateFive levels of writing down what you hear, from a few notes in C major to four bars in minor and the bass clef.
0 / 5 lessonsOpen pathInterval basics
BeginnerBuild a fluent vocabulary of the most common intervals.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after First steps, or with the placement test or its skip test.
Triads & chord quality
IntermediateRecognise major, minor, diminished and augmented triads on the fly.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after First steps, or with the placement test or its skip test.
The three minor scales
IntermediateNatural, harmonic and melodic minor, each heard next to the scale it changes by one note.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after First steps, or with the placement test or its skip test.
Church modes
IntermediateSix modes, each heard next to the major or minor scale it changes by a single note.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after The three minor scales, or with the placement test or its skip test.
Cadences
IntermediateAuthentic, plagal, half and deceptive: how a phrase ends, in major, in minor, then in any key.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after Triads & chord quality, or with the placement test or its skip test.
The dominant seventh
AdvancedThe dominant seventh among the other sevenths, its inversions, and where a dominant goes next.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after Triads & chord quality, or with the placement test or its skip test.
Functional progressions
AdvancedHear cadences, deceptive turns and modulation in real time.
0 / 3 lessonsLockedOpens after Cadences, or with the placement test or its skip test.
Aural harmony
AdvancedI, IV, V and V7, cadences and the inversions of V7, in four-part connections on the piano.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after Cadences, or with the placement test or its skip test.
Jazz dictation
Proii-V-I, altered dominants, tritone substitution and rhythm changes, in chords with ninths and thirteenths.
0 / 5 lessonsLockedOpens after Aural harmony, or with the placement test or its skip test.