Pitch Trainer

The daily gym for your ears.

Learn to recognize pitches, intervals, chords, scales and progressions by ear. Short, adaptive training sessions on iOS and Android.

Pitch Trainer asking “Which note is this?” over a sound wave, with the twelve notes to choose from.

Your ear is the one instrument you'll play for the rest of your life.

Every song you love has more in it than you're hearing.

Five minutes a day. It adapts to you.

  1. Learn

    One new sound at a time, in plain words. Thirty seconds of theory, tops.

    A lesson in the app: F sharp, remembered through the opening of The Simpsons theme.
  2. Drill

    Quick-fire reps that adapt: more of what you almost get, none of what you've mastered.

    A Chord Recognition question: “What chord is this?” with chord qualities to choose from.
  3. Own it

    Your accuracy climbs a little every day, until hearing it right stops feeling like trying.

    The Statistics screen: practice this week and accuracy for each trainer.

Hear music in layers.

Five skills that stack, from naming a single note to hearing where a whole song is going.

Pitch

Hear a note and name it, across three octaves. Every other skill builds on this one.

Intervals

Melodies are built from the gaps between notes. Learn how each gap sounds and solos start spelling themselves.

Chords

Major, minor, sevenths, diminished. Learn each chord's color until one listen gives it away.

Scales & Modes

Every scale has its own flavor: bright, dark, dreamy, bluesy. Learn to name the one you're hearing.

Progressions

I–IV–V. ii–V–I. The patterns under most songs you know. Hear where the music is going before it gets there.

Day 1 to playing by ear.

What actually happens when you show up five minutes a day.

  1. Day 1

    Baseline

    Take the placement test. Meet your starting ear, however rough.

  2. Day 3

    First clicks

    Octaves and fifths stop sounding the same. Something's happening.

  3. Week 1

    No more guessing

    Telling major from minor stops being a coin flip.

  4. Day 14

    Melodies by ear

    Simple tunes go from the radio to your fingers without sheet music.

  5. Day 30

    Proof

    Sing in tune. Transcribe a real song. The 'tone deaf' label dies here.

  6. Day 60

    Hearing in layers

    Bass lines, harmonies, arrangements all snap into focus. Your taste finally has the ear it deserves.

What people are saying.

“I was told I was 'tone deaf' my whole life. After 30 days, I sang in tune for the first time ever. I actually cried.”
Philip H.

“Could barely tell notes apart a month ago. Yesterday I transcribed a full song by ear. My bandmates couldn't believe it.”
Sarah M.

“Took 5 years of lessons but couldn't hear pitch errors. After 30 days with this app, I can finally play by ear. Worth every penny.”
Connor P.

Start hearing.

Free to download. Five minutes a day is enough.