Test your ear training with Aural Skills Trainer!

Learn from the ground up and test yourself on these topics:
- Intervals
- Chords
- Scales
- Melodic Dictation
- Rhythm —NEW—

Features:
- Premium removes ads and allows theme selection
- Training section to get started (review general concepts like intervals, chords and scales, and practice individual examples of each of those topics until you’ve mastered them)
- Musical examples for context and hearing how each concepts fits in
- Quiz questions with immediate feedback
- Listen as many times as needed to the questions and answers to reinforce what you’re hearing
- Developed by music theorists with teaching experience

Music takes practice, but nobody can do it alone and we’re here to help. Are you a student looking to work on your aural skills and ear training? Have you been a lifelong musician and want a chance to learn more about the music you’ve been playing? Or maybe you're a curious music lover? You’re in the right place!

You’ll have a chance to learn about intervals, chords, scales and melodic dictation with our training section. Then you’ll get to practice what you learned with our quiz mode. We have relevant examples with musical context to help make what you're listening to fun and interesting.

Difficulty settings allow you to focus on your current ability. For example, if you’re already comfortable with major and minor chords, skip straight to 7th chords. If chords feel like too much for now, start with going over intervals first and work your way up. You can limit what you get quizzed on: if you prefer to focus only on what’s introduced in a higher difficulty (the intermediate scale difficulty is primarily modes and pentatonic scales, for instance), you can be quizzed on just that. Or you can make the quiz cumulative and include all the easier difficulties as well as the one selected. Fine tune for your learning!

Box Metaphor Studios is committed to providing a musical experience to help you become a more well-rounded musician. We are always open to feedback on our musical goals, as well as any other comments or concerns around our app. Thanks for including us in your musical journey.

Based in Austin, Texas.

The team that made this possible:
Nathan Foxley, M.M., CEO, music theorist, developer
Steven Mathews, Ph.D., music theorist
James Lloyd, designer, artist
Derek Schaible, church organist

Works Cited:
Burstein, L. Poundie, and Joseph Nathan Straus. Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony. 3rd ed. New York, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2024.

Clendinning, Jane Piper, and Elizabeth West Marvin. The Musician’s Guide to Theory and Analysis. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2021.

Kostka, Stefan M. 2006. Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music. Prentice Hall.

Randel, Don Michael. 2003. The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press.

Roig-Francolí, Miguel A. 2003. Harmony in Context. McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages.

Scoggin, Nancy. AP Music Theory. 5th ed. Fort Lauderdale, FL: Barron’s Educational Services, 2023.

Straus, Joseph Nathan. 2005. Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.