Scale Ear Training
Scales are easier to recognise than most people expect, because you are not tracking seven notes. You are listening for the one or two that differ from the scale you already know, and that is a much smaller job.
- 12 scales
- one note decides
- listen for the difference
at which level
- Intermediate
- Any instrument
A scale runs by, and you name it. Pick which ones come past, then start.
What it asks
You hear a scale played from the root and name it. Major against natural minor is the starting pair, and from there every addition is defined by a single altered degree.
The question pool
The pool covers the scales that have their own page here: the seven modes, the three minors, the pentatonics, blues and whole tone. Add them two at a time, and pick pairs that differ by one note so your ear learns what to listen for.
How you answer
Buttons with the scale names, always played from the same root so the only variable is the pattern.
When the round ends
Ten questions, twenty, or no limit at all. Scales reward the short round more than most exercises, because fatigue makes the differences blur.
When you get it wrong
The correct scale lights up with its steps in semitones. The useful habit is to play it again and sing the degree that separates it from its nearest neighbour.
Keep going
Everything in ear training
- Interval Ear Training
- Chord Quality Ear Training
- Scale Ear Training
- Find the Tonic