Key Ear Training

About Key Ear Training Android App

Learn relative pitch recognition.

This methodology was taught by Charlie Banacos who was an American pianist, composer, author and educator, concentrating on jazz.

This useful application will train you to recognise pitches relative to a key center!

Relative pitch is more useful than recognising individual intervals because you will be able to identify pitches of any song in relation to the song key centre.

In short summary, the methodology works this way:
1. Listen to a major key cadence C-F-G-C (I-IV-V-I). It sets the tonal centre.
2. After the cadence, single random pitch will be played. It can be from the same octave as the cadence or one octave up / down.
3. Guess that random pitch!

The key to success is to do this exercise regularly every day, until you internalise all notes.
It can well take months if not a year.

If you have issue to recognise just one or two notes, use the baby mode where you choose only problematic notes to train.