Practice
Tools that I use as a working musician to improve my musicianship.
Melody Trainer
Pick a tune and it shows you how to play it on your banjo, fiddle, guitar, ukulele or piano — every note on the stave and on your instrument. Then play along: your mic listens, and the music waits for you. 260+ real tunes: jigs, reels, fiddle tunes, trad jazz and folk.
Start trainingPitch Practice
Pure note ear training — no game. Hear a short sequence off a reference tonic and name what you heard. Pick the length and the scale — you start in C major, and play any other scale into the mic to unlock it.
Train your earPlay It Back
Hear a short phrase, then play it back on your own instrument — the mic follows you note by note. Pick the key, the scale (trad modes too) and how many notes. The way tunes are learned at a session, a few notes at a time.
Train your earJam Track
Write a chord chart like a real lead sheet — drop chords over the bars, pick a style and a tempo, and the band plays it back on a loop. A band that never gets tired of backing you — solo over it, jam over it, train your ear on the changes.
Build a trackPhrasebook
Collect the licks and phrases you love in staff notation, add the chords, then drill them through all twelve keys and every mode. Theory is the grammar — this is what you actually say.
Open the bookChorale Ear Trainer
Hear a few bars of a Bach chorale, then name the chords you hear in Roman numerals. Real four-part harmony, real Bach — the same chorales students have sharpened their ears on for 300 years. The harder cousin of the arcade chord quiz.
Train your earSong Trainer
Learn a song by its chords and strumming, play along in time, then dig into the key, the scales you can solo with and the theory behind it. Chords & theory only — no lyrics.
Load a songThe Listening Lab
Solo over jazz and blues charts in any key — and the lab listens. Set your own rules (pentatonic, blue notes, chord tones, passing tones), then see your solo written out and graded, note by note.
Start soloing