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I am presenting on this page animated trainers and drills to practice your
"music theory skills"
online:
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1. Notes and Piano-Keys:
Note Trainer Drill - Note Reading
Description: Improve your ability to recognize notes on
the staff and find the write key.
Features: Randomly generates notes for the Treble, Bass, Tenor, and Alto clefs.
Drill - Piano Key Finder Identify
the notes on the staff by clicking the proper key on a piano
keyboard pictured on the screen. You can also play the keyboard before running the tutorial.
Drill - Speed Reading Identify
the notes sliding across the staff before they disappear into oblivion!
This is a very effective way to quickly learn the grand staff once you have gained a general familiarity
with it.
Keyboard Trainer
Description: Improve your ability to recognize notes on the keyboard.
Features: Option to turn on/off root black keys
The Piano Mouse For
children: The Cheese Factory: "Name the note and help Pianomouse get more
cheese than Puccini."
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2. Keysignature:
Key Trainer
Description: Improve your ability to recognize different
key signatures.
Features: Select any number of key signatures to work with; support for all four
clef types; support for both
major and minor key signatures
Drill - Key Signatures Identify the key signature that appears on the grand staff
by clicking on-
screen buttons with the mouse. You can determine whether the key is major or minor by listening to a
chord, listening to a scale, or simply being told. Also tests if you know the relative major/minor.
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3. Intervals:
Interval Trainer
Description: Improve your ability to recognize intervals on the staff.
Features: Option to turn on/off augmented and diminished intervals; option to disable double accidentals
from appearing
Interval Drills
There are two different modes to help you learn your intervals: in "interval building"
mode, you place the note with the right accidental in the right place to form the interval asked for.
In
"identifying intervals" mode, you identify the interval shown on the staff.
Interval Ear Trainer
Description: Improve your ear's ability to recognize intervals.
Features: Customize the intervals that are generated; select either ascending or descending intervals;
select three different types of 'play modes'; generate and print detailed progress reports
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4.Triads/Cords and there Inversions:
Triad Trainer
Description: Improve your ability to recognize triads on the staff.
Features: Option to turn on/off root notes with accidentals; can generate inversions
Drill - Chords Build and identify triads or 7th chords on the treble
staff, with options similar to those in
Interval Drills.
Chord Ear Trainer
Description: Improve your ear's ability to recognize triads and seventh chords.
Features: Customize the chords that are generated; select whether or not to play inversions; select
two
different types of 'play modes'; generate
and print detailed progress report
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5.Scales:
Scale Ear Trainer
Description: Improve your ear's ability to recognize scales and church modes.
Features: Customize the scales and church modes that are generated; select whether or not to play the
scale descending; generate and print detailed progress reports
Scale Building Strengthen your
knowledge and understanding of scales by building them one note at
a time on a treble staff.
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Other Instruments:
6. Guitar Trainer
Description: Improve your ability to recognize the note names of specific
guitar frets.
Features: Option to select the number of frets
7. Brass Trainer
Description: Improve your fingering ability for brass instruments.
Features: Select three different ranges for each instrument; support for the trumpet, french horn, trombone,
euphonium, and tuba
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1. Piano Songs
