Grammar of Music

Path

What to study before Interval recognition

Identifying by ear the distance between two notes, the skill everything else in aural training rests on. Below, the concepts that come before, in the order in which one explains the next. Signed in, you see the same path minus what you already hold: your path.

  1. Notes and semitones

    The seven letter names, the accidentals that alter them, and the semitone as the system's smallest step.

    Level 0lesson Notes have names, and the names have a rule (First steps in theory)

  2. Intervals

    The distance between two notes, measured by a number taken from the letter names and a quality taken from the semitones.

    Level 1has practicelesson The distance between two notes (First steps in theory)

  3. Interval recognition

    Identifying by ear the distance between two notes, the skill everything else in aural training rests on.

    Level 2lesson The colour of a distance (Ear and genres)