Music exercises

Practice notation, music theory, rhythm and listening. Choose your questions, check answers and review mistakes.

• Key signatures — Learn sharps and flats in key signatures, major keys and relative minors with Sonelad flashcards and quizzes.
• Circle of fifths — Practice neighboring keys, key signatures and relative minors around the circle of fifths in Sonelad.
• Scale degrees — Identify scale degrees in major and minor keys, or name notes from degrees, with Sonelad exercises.
• Build a scale — Build major and natural minor scales degree by degree by choosing notes and accidentals in Sonelad.
• Notes on the staff — Learn notes in treble and bass clef with ledger lines and accidentals using Sonelad flashcards and quizzes.
• Notes in a chord — Learn the notes of major, minor, diminished and augmented triads from chord names and notation.
• Chord by scale degree — Identify triads on degrees of major and natural minor scales, or select their notes, in Sonelad.
• Chord inversions — Identify root position, first and second inversions of triads from three written notes.
• Chords by ear — Listen to piano triads and identify the full chord name, including its root and quality, in Sonelad.
• Inversions by ear — Listen to major and minor triads and identify root position, first or second inversion by the bass note.
• Chord degree by ear — Hear a tonic and a triad, then identify which scale degree the chord belongs to in the chosen key.
• Intervals on the staff — Identify intervals between written notes with accidentals or key signatures in Sonelad.
• Intervals by ear — Listen to two piano notes and identify the musical interval between them in a customizable Sonelad quiz.
• Repeat the pattern — Listen to a short rhythm pattern and tap it back against a steady pulse in Sonelad.
• Rhythm dictation — Listen to a rhythm and mark the beats and subdivisions where hits occur. Practice rhythmic listening.
• Musical modes — Learn seven diatonic modes, their major or minor basis and altered scale degrees with Sonelad.
• Modes by ear — Listen to piano scales from selected starting notes and identify their diatonic modes by ear.