eartFor students preparing for the provas de acesso
Ear training for music school entrance exams
Intervals, chord qualities, rhythmic and melodic dictation — practised in the format of an entrance test, at the level you are sitting, every day between lessons.
eart is in early testing. The drills on this site already work and you can try them now, without an account.
Why eart
A lesson a week is not enough
Ear training needs a little every day. Most students only get it in their weekly lesson, and cram in the weeks before the test.
General apps are not built around the exam
An entrance test asks for more than naming intervals: whole rhythms and melodies, written down after a fixed number of hearings, at a set level. eart drills each part, then puts them together as a mock exam.
What you practise
Intervals
Two notes, one after the other or together. Name the interval, from the minor second to the major tenth.
Chord qualities
Major, minor, diminished and augmented triads, in inversion from the second level, and the seventh chords at the third.
Rhythmic dictation
A bar of count-in, then the rhythm. Write it down cell by cell — quarters and eighths first, then dotted notes, sixteenths, triplets and syncopation.
Melodic dictation
The tonic chord, then a melody that starts and ends on the tonic. Write it on the keyboard. Major keys first, then minor, then wider leaps.
How it works
- New exercises every time. Every question is generated: a new starting note, a new key, a new rhythm. There is nothing to memorise except the sound.
- Set to your exam level. Choose the level you are sitting and the drills ask what that level asks.
- Weak spots come round more often. eart keeps track of what you get wrong — a major sixth you hear as a minor sixth, a dotted rhythm you miss — and asks it more often until it sticks.
- Mock exams. All four sections in order, a fixed number of hearings, no marks until the end. Then a score per section and every question to review.
- A view for your teacher. Join your teacher's class with a code, and they see what you practised and where you struggle before the next lesson.
- No account needed to start. Practise straight away. Make an account later and everything you did comes with you, on every device.
Three levels
Level 1
Básico
Entry to the basic course
Simple intervals going up, the four triads, two-bar rhythms with quarters and eighths, short melodies in major keys.
Level 2
Secundário
Entry to the secondary course
Every simple interval up and down, triads in inversion and the dominant seventh, four-bar rhythms with dotted notes and sixteenths, melodies in major and minor.
Level 3
Superior
Entry to higher education
Compound intervals and harmonic intervals, the five seventh chords, triplets and syncopation, longer melodies with wide leaps.
Each school sets its own test. The levels follow what entrance ear tests commonly ask at each stage; check your school's regulations for the exact format.
For teachers
Make a class and give your students its code. You see each student's accuracy in every drill, their weak spots, how often they practise and their mock exam results — updated while they practise. Students choose to join, and can leave at any time.
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