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A warm dusk music room — a teenage cellist and a mentor at a music stand beside a grand piano, soft lamplight, mountains through an arched window

🎓 Ages 15–18 · Grades 9–12 · Music & Performing Arts

ClefQuest

You don’t train your ear by reading definitions — you train it by predicting a sound and then hearing it. Play an interval or chord, say what it is, and a real Web-Audio engine plays it back while the theory model checks you. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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The Ear Bench ★ the main event

Play a sound, predict the interval or chord quality, then the bench replays it and names it exactly — every interval and chord is generated from the theory model, right on your device, no cloud. A missed ear is just where the sound surprises you.

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Who you’ll meet

Not mascots — the skills of a trained musician, each one a single move you’ll practise. You’ll run into them across the kits and the bench.

  • The Sight-Reader — places any note on the staff by clef and line (staff & clefs)
  • The Timekeeper — feels where the beats fall and how they group (rhythm & meter)
  • The Interval-Ear — names the exact distance between two pitches (intervals)
  • The Key-Keeper — knows every scale by its sharps and flats (scales & key signatures)
  • The Chord-Builder — stacks thirds into major, minor, diminished, augmented (triads)
  • The Harmonist — labels a chord by its role in the key (diatonic harmony & Roman numerals)
  • The Cadence-Reader — hears how a phrase comes to rest (cadences)
  • The Transcriber — writes down a melody or rhythm just by ear (dictation)
  • The Voice-Leader — moves each line smoothly from chord to chord (voice-leading)
  • Maestra Rey — the mentor — predict the sound, play it, then reconcile

Check what you know

Sixteen short kits — from staff and clefs through note names, rhythm, intervals, scales, modes, triads, seventh chords, diatonic harmony, cadences, dictation, progressions, voice-leading, transposition, and form — anchored to high-school music theory. Hints when you want them; your progress stays on this device.

1. Staff & Clefs Reading the staff and the common clefs · 20 questions 2. Note Names & the Musical Alphabet Naming pitches, octaves, and enharmonics · 20 questions 3. Rhythm & Meter Note values, time signatures, and beat organization · 20 questions 4. Intervals Measuring and identifying the distance between two pitches · 20 questions 5. Major Scales & Key Signatures Building major scales and reading key signatures · 20 questions 6. Minor Scales & Modes The three minor scales and the diatonic modes · 20 questions 7. Triads & Chord Quality Building and identifying three-note chords · 20 questions 8. Seventh Chords Four-note chords and their qualities · 20 questions 9. Diatonic Harmony & Roman Numerals The chords of a key and how we label them · 20 questions 10. Cadences How musical phrases come to rest · 20 questions 11. Melodic Dictation Foundations The theory behind hearing and notating melodies · 20 questions 12. Rhythmic Dictation Foundations The theory behind hearing and notating rhythm · 20 questions 13. Chord-Progression Recognition Hearing and understanding common progressions · 20 questions 14. Voice-Leading Basics Connecting chords smoothly · 20 questions 15. Transposition Moving music to a different key · 20 questions 16. Form & Analysis Capstone Integrating theory to understand musical structure · 20 questions
Mixed practice — revisit what you've learned A short round that shuffles questions across the kits you've played, brought back when they're ready to review (spaced out so it sticks).

How it works

ClefQuest is written to trust you — it’s about hearing and reasoning through how music is built, not memorizing terms, and a wrong prediction is just a place to learn. The Ear Bench is a small, exact engine: it synthesizes each sound on your device (no server, nothing sent anywhere) and the answer comes from the theory model, never an opinion. Your progress is saved only on this device: no accounts, no ads.

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