PitchDrops: Free Relative Pitch Ear Training
PitchDrops is a free, modern relative pitch ear training application designed to help musicians, singers, composers, and music enthusiasts master interval, chord, scale, progression, and note recognition. By practicing just a few minutes a day, you can build pristine relative pitch recognition and connect music theory directly with your ears.
Key Ear Training Exercises
- Intervals: Learn to recognize and name melodic and harmonic intervals, including minor/major seconds, thirds, sixths, sevenths, perfect fourths, fifths, octaves, and tritones.
- Chords: Practice identifying chord qualities, including major, minor, diminished, augmented, dominant 7th, major/minor 7th, half-diminished, and extended chord structures.
- Scales & Modes: Master scale degrees and church modes by ear, practicing Major, Natural Minor, Melodic/Harmonic Minor, Pentatonic, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Locrian modes.
- Chord Progressions: Develop absolute functional harmony comprehension by recognizing Roman numeral chord sequences in musical contexts, like I-V-vi-IV or ii-V-I cadences.
- Note Recognition: Sharpen absolute pitch memory by naming individual sound frequencies played across multiple natural acoustic and synthetic synthesizers.
Why PitchDrops Works
Our web application uses an advanced adaptive selector powered by Bayesian Mastery Estimation. The scheduler models your pitch memory using exponential decay and predicts which items need active reinforcement. This ensures that every drop of ear training is personalized to focus precisely on your relative pitch boundaries (the 75%–80% proficiency sweet spot).
Advanced Play Styles & Settings
PitchDrops is designed for modular flexibility: listen to melodic patterns (ascending or descending notes), harmonic block chords, or randomized sequences. Learn on classic piano, warm acoustic/electric guitar, deep bass, pure physical sine waves, rich sawtooth, or custom AM/FM synthesizers. Advanced music theorists can also choose between standard 12-Tone Equal Temperament (12-TET), 5-Limit Just Intonation, or 7-Limit Just Intonation tuning systems for pure microtonal consonant chord structures.